Here’s the Cache S T O R Y!
While traveling in Kentucky, we stopped for a quick grab and found a TB that had been caught in its 7th-inning stretch as it was lost for 5 years. Baseball Travel Bug’s mission was to “Visit all the cities where professional baseball is played. This includes MLB teams as well as minor-league affiliates of major-league teams.”
We were thrilled to find it since we live in a city with a Triple-A ballpark. When we got back home, we struck out when we learned there weren’t any cache’s close to Sahlen Field. We’ve always wanted to hide our own cache and thought this would be a double. Hide one near Sahlen Field which desperately needed one and help fulfill the mission for the TB we picked up in Kentucky. It’s been out of action for 5 years, so we hope we’ve hit it over the outfield wall for a home run!! We really had a ball with this one!
How about some H I S T O R Y?
Sahlen Field is a baseball park in Buffalo, New York, home to the Buffalo Bisons, a Triple-A affiliate of the Toronto Blue Jays.
Originally known as Pilot Field, the venue has had several names: Downtown Ballpark, North AmeriCare Park, Dunn Tire Park, and Coca-Cola Field. Home to the Buffalo Bisons of the International League, it opened on April 14, 1988, and can seat up to 16,600 people, making it the highest-capacity Triple-A ballpark in the United States. It replaced the Bisons' former home, War Memorial Stadium, where the team played from 1979 to 1987.
The stadium was the first retro-classic ballpark built in the world and was designed with plans for Major League Baseball (MLB) expansion. Buffalo had not had an MLB team since the Buffalo Blues played for the Federal League in 1915. However, Bisons owner Robert E. Rich Jr. was unsuccessful in his efforts to bring an MLB franchise to the stadium between 1988 and 1995. The stadium was a temporary home to the Toronto Blue Jays of MLB in 2020 and 2021 when they were displaced by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Sahlen Field was previously home to the Buffalo Nighthawks of the Ladies Professional Baseball League in 1998, the Buffalo Bulls of the National Collegiate Athletic Association in 2000, and the Empire State Yankees of the International League in 2012. In addition to concerts and professional wrestling, the stadium has hosted major events including the National Old-Timers Baseball Classic (1988–1990), Triple-A All-Star Game (1988, 2012), StarGaze (1992–1993), World University Games (1993) and National Buffalo Wing Festival (2002–2019).
Don’t have a ticket to the G A M E?
After finding the cache, you can go into the Parking Ramp you are standing next to, hike to the top floor and stand in the Northeast corner – on the East wall of the parking garage – peer around the cement wall and see the entire field.
Post a pic with your log!
Have Fun Finding!
