Lockport's Field of Dreams

Lockport White Sox vs Jamestown Falcons
opening day at Outwater Stadium

It’s been a month or so since the Toronto Blue Jays were playing major league games in Buffalo, after making the Queen City their temporary home for good portions of the 2020 and 2021 seasons. Regular season major league baseball in Buffalo had not been seen since the 1915 Buffalo Blues of the short-lived Federal League played there. Of course, there had been a few exhibition games featuring major league teams, most notably the New York Yankees taking on the International League All-Stars in 1963 at War Memorial Stadium, and a preseason game between Toronto and Cleveland in 1987. However, did you know the Chicago White Sox played an exhibition game in Lockport smack in the middle of their 1942 season?