Michael Buczkowski
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Buffalo Bisons Founded in 1979 Buffalo, New York |
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| Current | Triple-A (1985–present) | ||||
| Previous | Double-A (1979–1984) | ||||
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| League | International League (1998–present) | ||||
| Division | North Division | ||||
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| Current | Toronto Blue Jays (2013–present) | ||||
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| League titles (7) |
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| Division titles (4) |
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| Nickname | Buffalo Bisons (1877–1970, 1979–present) | ||||
| Colors | Scarlet, blue, white |
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| Ballpark |
Coca-Cola Field (1988–present)
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Owner(s)/
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Bob Rich Jr. | ||||
| Manager | Bobby Meacham | ||||
| General Manager | Michael Buczkowski | ||||
| Media |
Spectrum Sports ESPN 1520 AM Bisons Radio Network |
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Coca-Cola Field (1988–present)
The Buffalo Bisons are a professional minor league baseball team based in Buffalo, New York. They play in the International League (IL) and are the Triple-A affiliate of the Toronto Blue Jays. The Bisons play at Coca-Cola Field in downtown Buffalo.
The Bisons have existed in some form since 1877, most of that time playing in professional baseball's second tier; exceptions have included the 1879–85 Bisons, who played in the major leagues as a member of the National League, and the 1979–84 Bisons, who played at the third-tier Double-A level. The Bisons did not play from June 1970 through the 1978 season.
In 2016, Forbes listed the Bisons as the 15th-most valuable Minor League Baseball team with a value of $34 million.
Organized baseball in Buffalo had been around since at least 1859, when the Niagara baseball club of the National Association of Base Ball Players played its first season. The first professional team to play in Buffalo began in 1877; it was this team that was invited to become a major league club, the Buffalo Bisons of the National League, who played from 1879 to 1885. In 1886, the Bisons moved into minor league baseball as members of the original International League, then known as the Eastern League. (An "outlaw" team also known as the Buffalo Bisons also played in the Players' League, an upstart third major league, in 1890, but that team is not considered part of the Bisons history.) This team joined the Western League in 1899, and was within weeks of becoming a major league team when the Western League announced it was changing its name to the American League in 1900. However, by the start of the 1901 season, Buffalo had been bumped from the league in favor of the Boston Americans; the Bisons returned to the minors and the Eastern League that year.
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