Buffalo Bisons

The Bisons played seven National League seasons at 314-333 without winning a pennant. Pud Galvin pitched for six of them and won 361 games in his career, the first pitcher to reach 300; a large share of the club's wins are his, because in that era one man started most of the games a club played.

The best season is 1884, at 64-47. The worst is 1885, at 38-74, the last: the club was sold at the end of it, its four best players went to Detroit in a single transaction, and Buffalo left the league. Home was Riverside Park and then Olympic Park.

Five Hall of Famers played here: Galvin, Dan Brouthers, Deacon White, Jim O'Rourke, who also managed for four seasons and won 206 games, and Old Hoss Radbourn. Brouthers, White, Hardy Richardson and Jack Rowe were the four sold to Detroit, and were known afterward as the Big Four.