War Memorial Stadium... "The Rockpile" Home Plate Entrance by Peter Outerbridge located in Buffalo New York Former home of the Buffalo Bisons! |
Though officially called War Memorial Stadium, Buffalo’s old baseball / football
park was best known as "The Rockpile". Built in 1937, it began its life as Roesch
Memorial Stadium. The name was quickly changed to Grover Cleveland Stadium and
then finally Civic Stadium before becoming War Memorial Stadium (and then nicknamed
"The Rockpile"). Over the years, renovations to the stadium were made to
increase its capacity until it looked like a hodgepodge of various grandstands
and roofing systems. In the end, the Rockpile did its best to become a home to
professional baseball, but this was a football stadium through and through. |