1919 TEXAS LEAGUE
Teams:
Beaumont Oilers
Dallas Marines
Ft. Worth Panthers
Galveston Pirates
Houston Buffaloes
San Antonio Bronchos
Shreveport Gassers
Waco Navigators
All teams located in Texas except for Shreveport (LA).
Schedule Characteristics:
SCHEDULE type="ILN_BGY_G141_T8_C_" inter_league="0" balanced_games="1" games_per_team="141" start_month="4" start_day="21" start_day_of_week="2"
Teams play 141 games. Teams play each other either 20 or 21 times. Teams play from 69 to 72 home games.
Season starts on April 22 and ends on September 6. Weekday games start at 3:00. Weekend games start at 1:00. Double-headers on holidays (Independence Day (7/4) and Labor Day (9/1)) start at noon and 3:00.
The printed schedule (
Sporting News, 3/27/1919) is in bad shape, but I think I got everything right. As is typical with the Texas League, there are no off-days. The schedule has Galveston only playing 140 games while San Antonio plays 142. I'm confident that's a mistake, and that Galveston should play at Houston on Aug. 30 while the Houston-San Antonio game listed for April 21 is a misprint. Shreveport hosts Ft. Worth 9 times and plays at Ft. Worth 11 times, which suggests that Shreveport may have given up one of its home games to Ft. Worth, possibly for a larger share of the visitors' gate. That certainly wasn't unheard of at the time, and there's no obvious way to move one of those games back to Shreveport, so I let it stand.
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