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The fairgrounds property was originally a large block bounded by Northland Avenue (north); Humboldt Parkway (east); Ferry Street (south); Dupont Street, and Jefferson Avenue (west). The grounds included a horserace track and grandstand, and a bicycle track within the horserace track. The grounds were
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in the spring of 1914. The stands and diamond overlapped part of the site of the northwest corner of the racetrack and its grandstand. The ballpark itself was located on a block bound by Northland Avenue (north, third base); Lonsdale Road (an extension of Hauf Street) (west, first base); Hamlin Road
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The area is now fully residential buildings. A short street just to the east of the area, which existed when the fairgrounds was there, is a silent reminder: Inter Park Avenue.
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By the 1910s, the property had been sold to residential developers, and streets were being cut through to form the neighborhood that would become known as Hamlin Park.
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The Buffeds sought property for a ballpark in 1914 and found a northwest corner of the property available. The team broke ground on March 23, 1914 with Mayor
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was a fairgrounds and later a short-lived baseball and football ground located in
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Main building of the Buffalo International Fair Association (1888)
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in attendance and constructed a concrete ballpark called
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This article about a baseball venue in New York is a
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In addition to baseball, the grounds hosted the 1914
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Capacity
Buffalo Federals
FL
Buffalo, New York
Buffalo Buffeds/Blues
Federal League
Buffalo Baseball Park
Louis P. Fuhrmann
New York Pro Football League
Society for American Baseball Research
History of the grounds
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Federal League
Baltimore Terrapins
Brooklyn Tip-Tops
Buffalo Blues
Chicago Whales
Cleveland Green Sox
Covington Blue Sox
Indianapolis Hoosiers/Newark Peppers
Kansas City Packers
Pittsburgh Stogies/Rebels
St. Louis Terriers
Exposition Park
Federal League Park
Gordon and Koppel Field

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