Buffalo Base Ball Park and Offermann Stadium

By Byron Bennett | January 28, 2015

Professional baseball was played at the corner of East Ferry and Michigan Avenue in Buffalo, New York, for 72 years beginning in 1889, through the end of the 1960 season. Originally known as new Olympic Park (old Olympic Park housed Buffalo baseball teams from 1884 to 1888 at the intersection of Richmond Avenue and Summer Street),…

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An Expedition to Pittsburgh’s Exposition Park(s)

By Byron Bennett | December 15, 2010
An old image of the Exposition Park

Long before PNC Park, Three Rivers Stadium, and Forbes Field, Pittsburgh’s professional baseball teams played at a place known as Exposition Park. In truth, there actually were three different incarnations of Exposition Park located along the banks of the Allegheny River. The third, and most well documented, being the last of the three. In the above photograph,…

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