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Buffalo Blues

Baseball club

Summary

Baseball club

Field	Value
name	Buffalo Blues
founded	1914
disbanded	1915
city	Buffalo, New York
former_leagues	{{plainlist
former_names	{{plainlist
former_ballparks	{{plainlist
league_champs	0
owner	Walter Mullen
Laurens Enos
Oliver Cabana Jr.
William E. Robertson
manager	Larry Schlafly
Walter Blair
Harry Lord

Federal League
Buffalo Blues (1915)
Buffalo Buffeds (1914)
Federal League Park Laurens Enos Oliver Cabana Jr. William E. Robertson Walter Blair Harry Lord

[[William E. Robertson]] was president of the [[Buffalo, New York]] Federal League baseball team

The Buffalo Blues were a professional baseball club that played in the short-lived Federal League, which was a minor league in 1913 and a full-fledged outlaw major league the next two years. It was the last major league baseball team to be based in the city of Buffalo. In 1913 and 1914, as was the standard for Federal League teams, the franchise did not have an official name, instead going by the generic BufFeds.

The Buffalo team played at International Fair Association Grounds. Due to delays in construction of their new ballpark, the team did not play their first home game until a month after the Federal League season had started. Buffalo sold shares of stock of the team to the public through a series of newspaper ads. Preferred shares were sold for $10 each.

In the 1914 season, the team posted an 80–71 record (.530) and finished in fourth place, seven games behind the league champion Indianapolis Hoosiers. In the league's second and final season, the team, then known as the Buffalo Blues, ended in sixth place with a 74–78 mark (.487), 12 games behind the Chicago Whales.

An unusual player who played for the Blues in 1914 was Ed Porray; the only major leaguer whose birthplace is not a place, but rather noted as "on a ship somewhere in the Atlantic Ocean," on December 5, 1888.

Between the Buffalo players who had experience in the American and/or National leagues were Hugh Bedient, Walter Blair, Hal Chase, Tom Downey, Howard Ehmke, Ed Lafitte, Harry Lord and Russ Ford.

Baseball in Buffalo

title = Buffalo Baseball Briefly – Mop-Up Duty}}</ref> A proposed [[Continental League]] team (to be owned by future [[Buffalo Sabres]] owner [[Robert O. Swados]]) was slated for Buffalo in 1961, but the league folded before playing any games.

The closest that any major league baseball team has come to Buffalo since then is Toronto (70 mi away as the crow flies), where the Toronto Blue Jays have played since 1977. Due to border travel restrictions stemming from the COVID-19 pandemic, the Blue Jays played their home games at Buffalo's Sahlen Field (a facility designed to be easily upgraded to MLB standards) for the 2020 and part of the 2021 Major League Baseball season, marking the first major league games played in Buffalo in 104 years.

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