Buffalo Stadium was a minor league stadium primarily used by the Texas League Houston Buffaloes from 1928 through 1958 (except for 1943 to 1945 because of World War II) and the Houston Buffs of the American Association from 1959 to 1961. The Buffaloes were a farm team of the Major League St. Louis Cardinals and provided many great ballplayers to the Cardinals' success in 1930s and 1940s. The arrival of the National League Houston Colt .45s in 1962 brought an end to minor league baseball in Houston. It also went by the names of Buff Stadium and later Busch Stadium. It was bounded by Leeland Street, St. Bernard Street (present-day Cullen Boulevard), Coyle Street, and Milby Street in the East End. The railroad tracks leading to Union Station, site of the Houston Astros' current ballpark, ran behind the center field wall. Near the University of Houston, the stadium was also home to the Houston Cougars baseball team from the 1940s until the 1960s when it was demolished. It was replaced by what became Finger's Furniture.
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