Sports Columnist {{description}} Email notifications are only sent once a day, and only if there are new matching items. The first thing you ran into Thursday morning was the traffic. There was a veritable phalanx of school buses stretching up Swan Street from Washington, nearly all the way to Oak.
I did a quick and probably reckless U-turn (apologies, Buffalo Police directing traffic) to make a right behind Sahlen Field’s left-field fence to get to Seneca Street and escape the chaos. Will the Toronto Blue Jays call up a few big hitters from the Buffalo Bisons to revive a slumping offense? All just to hit a different mess. More buses down Seneca making the turn just before Chef’s Restaurant.
Right on Exchange and a mob of buses as well as hordes of kids and teachers walking. Even more of that on Washington entering the ballpark. No complaints here.
Crowds are a good thing. They say something big is going on. And they’ve long been a part of the Bisons’ annual School Kids Day games.
The 11:05 a.m. contest against the St.
Paul Saints, sliced up as the completion of a suspended game thanks to Wednesday’s downtown downpour, was the 41st such affair since the ballpark opened in 1988 (the early years featured two or three such games). The crowd on Thursday was a season-high 14,524 and that pushed the all-time attendance on this day to 610,418. That’s an average of 14,888.
It’s one of those games where the “everybody clap your hands” ditty results in, well, the enti.
