Free Bisons/Blue Jays 2022 Season Summary

We are excited to announce that with every Seasons of Buffalo Baseball 1857-2020 Book purchased, special summaries of the 2021 and 2022 seasons of Major League and Triple A Baseball played in Buffalo will be included.

The 2021 summary is written by Mike Harrington, a Buffalo Baseball Hall of Fame Columnist for The Buffalo News. The 2022 summary is written by Pat Malacaro, Voice of the Bisons. Both versions include photographs by Brian Frank, founder of HerdChonicles.com.

For those who already own a copy of the book, you can download a FREE summary of the 2021 season by sharing your email below.

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Favorite Baseball Memory Contest Submissions

Favorite Baseball Memory Submission #13

I didn’t grow up here in WNY. However I am a huge baseball fan, have lived in WNY since 1994, root for the Bisons, attended

Favorite Baseball Memory Submission #12

One of my favorite memories was the 1984 baseball season.I was lucky enough to work with the Buffalo Bisons and Jack Tracz.Yes, we were a

Favorite Baseball Memory Submission #11

After the Blizzard of ’77 Yankees owner George Steinbrenner brought to Buffalo a bunch of NY Yankees to help promote some of his friends’ businesses.

Favorite Baseball Memory Submission #10

Asking for a favorite baseball memory is akin to asking “which is my favorite grandchild?” It’s impossible. High on my list are Sean Casey’s Bison’s

Favorite Baseball Memory Submission #9

I love to take my grandkids to the baseball games, all 9 of them. We have always have fun because they somehow are given a

Favorite Baseball Memory Submission #8

The 1st game I was at, in Buffalo at Pilot Field in August of 1988. It was a 1-0 victory by Nashville on a home

Favorite Baseball Memory Submission #7

There are so many memories to choose from. One would think it would be during my time with my Jamestown Jammers (Detroit A affiliate) as

Favorite Baseball Memory Submission #6

As the mom to a son who has always loved the sport, one of my favorite memories would be when his little league team took

Favorite Baseball Memory Submission #5

In the summer of 1968 I attended a Bison’s game at the old “Rockpile” vs. the Columbus Jets. Cincinnati was the parent team of the

Favorite Baseball Memory Submission #4

I love baseball, especially the minor leagues because you feel the action in close proximity to the players. When vacationing on leave from the US

Favorite Baseball Memory Submission #3

My favorite baseball memory happened at the “Rockpile” when the Buffalo Bisons were a AA Ball farm club of the Pirates circa 1981. After a

Favorite Baseball Memory Submission #2

Don Erickson was a Buffalo Bisons Pitcher and he lived with us in the Kensington-Eggert area of Buffalo during the 1959- 60 season. The Bisons

Favorite Baseball Memory Submission #1

“In May 1983 my dad and I were invited into the dugout of the Philadelphia Phillies after a game. My dad said I could bring

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Opening Day Reminiscences

by Paul Langendorfer Every year without fail, it happens. Sometimes earlier, sometimes later, but the yearn to watch the game starts. We wait for the snow to melt, for the grass to appear, thinking of how it will become green and reminds us of our favorite place in the world. The perfect emerald green of a baseball diamond. Soon

Paul Langendorfer

About the Book

The Seasons of Buffalo Baseball 1857-2020 is a collaborative effort that draws heavily from Joe Overfield’s book, The 100 Seasons of Buffalo Bisons Baseball, particularly in its year-by-year summaries of Bison seasons from 1857 to 1985.

This richly illustrated, 400-page book tells the story of Buffalo baseball from the 1850s, when the city’s first amateur ballclubs were formed, through to 2020, when major-league baseball returned to Buffalo as the Queen City hosted the Toronto Blue Jays’ home games at the city’s downtown ballpark.

This book is filled with good times and bad, heroes and rogues, and triumphs and disappointments, all told against the backdrop of the profound changes in American society and the fortunes of the city of Buffalo. The Seasons of Buffalo Baseball 1857-2020 is that rare marvel—a book born of local devotion that commands national attention.

Many authors have contributed to the book including Brian M. Frank, an assistant editor on the project and creator of the website The Herd Chronicles, Paul Langendorfer, author of Baseball in Buffalo, Budd Bailey and Mike Harrington of The Buffalo News, Sam Maiorana of Rochester’s Democrat and Chronicle and former Ch. 2 sportscaster Jonah Javad. The book honors the memory of Joe Overfield and is a tribute to the resilience of the City of Buffalo and the game that has been part of the city’s fabric for more than 160 years.

"To say that Buffalo has a rich baseball history is to deal in understatement. This book is a lively and entertaining chronicle of the city's love affair with our National Game.”

The Seasons of Buffalo Baseball 1857-2020 is an ode to Western New York's pastime, stretching from Bison summer evenings today, in their welcoming downtown park, back to the days of the Rockpile and way back, back, back, before that."