Buffalo Bisons (1886–1970)

They also won ten league championships, including the inaugural Governors' Cup in 1933.

The 1927 Bisons were recognized as one of the 100 greatest minor league teams of all time.

[1] The team was last affiliated with the Montreal Expos of Major League Baseball and played its home games at War Memorial Stadium.

This franchise continued in the Eastern/International League through June 1970, when it transferred to Winnipeg, Manitoba as the Winnipeg Whips, due to poor attendance, stadium woes, the Montreal Expos affiliating with the franchise, and an increasingly saturated-Buffalo sports market that saw the Buffalo Sabres of the NHL and Buffalo Braves of the NBA established the same year.

[3] After stops in Winnipeg and Hampton, Virginia, the team was suspended after the 1973 season to make way for the Memphis Blues, who were moving up from Double-A only to move to Charleston as the reborn Charleston Charlies, before picking up stakes again to become the Maine Guides/Phillies.