Matt Worth, director of the Batavia Department of Public Works, walks the weed-covered infield at Dwyer Stadium in Batavia, where the community is contemplating the possibility of life without the fabled Muckdogs.
By James P. McCoy
Dwyer Stadium: They've played New York-Penn League baseball here since 1939.
At this point last summer, Larry and Cindy Wood had just left Colorado to settle near their daughter's family in Genesee County. Larry was retired from the Army, and the couple had spent much of their adult lives moving around. Still, Tiffany Gould knew how to make her parents feel at home.
A family missing the Muckdogs: From left at an empty Dwyer Stadium, Larry and Cindy Wood and daughter Tiffany Gould; in foreground, 10-year-old Emily and 12-year-old Michael Gould.
Two words that describe the situation for Minor League Baseball. The Bisons and roughly 160 other teams are on pause until April 2021. We have no idea what things will look like when they come back. And for many teams, if they come back.
Bill Kauffman, a writer, informal historian and longtime champion of Muckdog baseball, in a Dwyer Stadium lockerroom prepared for players who are not coming.
The Buffalo Bisons will retain their affiliation with the Toronto Blue Jays.
Matt Worth, director of the Batavia Department of Public Works, walks the weed-covered infield at Dwyer Stadium in Batavia, where the community is contemplating the possibility of life without the fabled Muckdogs.
A family missing the Muckdogs: From left at an empty Dwyer Stadium, Larry and Cindy Wood and daughter Tiffany Gould; in foreground, 10-year-old Emily and 12-year-old Michael Gould.
Bill Kauffman, a writer, informal historian and longtime champion of Muckdog baseball, in a Dwyer Stadium lockerroom prepared for players who are not coming.
