Editing Sahlen Field (section)

===Naming rights===
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Pilot Air Freight of [[Philadelphia]] purchased the 20-year naming rights to the venue in 1986.<ref>{{cite news |title=Pilot Air's revenues are flying high |url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/167975354/ |work=The Philadelphia Inquirer |date=June 29, 1987}}</ref> The stadium would be named Pilot Field in exchange for the company paying the City of Buffalo $51,000 on an annual basis.<ref name="PilotNameChange">{{cite news |last1=Bailey |first1=Budd |title=This Day in Buffalo Sports History, March 2, 1995: Pilot Field's name changed |url=https://buffalonews.com/news/this-day-in-buffalo-sports-history-march-2-1995-pilot-fields-name-changed/article_58ceb3b5-8a5e-511e-81ed-1f2d97b70420.html |work=The Buffalo News |date=March 2, 2011}}</ref> Their name was stripped from the venue by the City of Buffalo in March 1995 after Pilot Air Freight defaulted on payments.

The stadium was then known as Downtown Ballpark until July 1995, when local [[Health maintenance organization|HMO]] [[Excellus BlueCross BlueShield|North AmeriCare]] purchased the naming rights and the stadium became North AmeriCare Park ([[colloquialism|colloquially]] known as The NAP).<ref name="PilotNameChange" /><ref>{{cite web | title=IN ARENA OF IDEAS, THIS ONE'S A HARD ONE | website=Greensboro News and Record | date=May 18, 2022 | url=https://greensboro.com/in-arena-of-ideas-this-ones-a-hard-one/article_54ee61d9-1d02-5577-b29f-9b600595288d.html | access-date=May 28, 2022}}</ref> North AmeriCare agreed to pay the City of Buffalo $3.3 million over the course of 13 years.<ref name="DunnTire1999">{{cite news |last1=Fairbanks |first1=Phil |title=Dunn Tire is Looking to Pay Ballpark Figure of 2.5 Million |url=https://buffalonews.com/news/dunn-tire-is-looking-to-pay-ballpark-figure-of-2-5-million/article_2bc9ec83-a995-5dcd-8a41-6cd0495820da.html |work=The Buffalo News |date=May 4, 1999}}</ref> The Dunn Tire chain of tire outlets assumed North AmeriCare's remaining contract with the City of Buffalo in May 1999, and the venue became Dunn Tire Park.<ref name="DunnTire1999" />

[[Coca-Cola]] Bottling Company of Buffalo purchased the 10-year naming rights to the stadium in December 2008, and it was renamed Coca-Cola Field beginning with the 2009 season.<ref>{{cite news |title=Goodbye, Dunn Tire Park. Hello, Coca-Cola Field!|first=Mike |last=Harrington|url=http://www.buffalonews.com/home/story/525364.html|newspaper=[[The Buffalo News]]|date=December 17, 2008|access-date=December 17, 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090203161859/http://www.buffalonews.com/home/story/525364.html|archive-date=February 3, 2009|url-status=dead}}</ref> [[Sahlen's]] purchased the 10-year naming rights to the stadium in October 2018, and it was renamed Sahlen Field beginning with the 2019 season.<ref>{{cite web|title=Sahlen Field – the new home of the Herd|url=https://www.milb.com/buffalo/news/sahlen-field-the-new-home-of-the-herd-297493492|access-date=October 9, 2018|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181010011323/https://www.milb.com/buffalo/news/sahlen-field---the-new-home-of-the-herd/c-297493492|archive-date=October 10, 2018}}</ref>