1921 TEXAS LEAGUE
Teams:
Beaumont Exporters
Dallas Submarines
Ft. Worth Panthers
Galveston Pirates
Houston Buffaloes
San Antonio Bears
Shreveport Gassers
Wichita Falls Spudders
All teams located in Texas except for Shreveport (LA)
Schedule Characteristics:
SCHEDULE type="ILN_BGY_G159_T8_C_" inter_league="0" balanced_games="1" games_per_team="159" start_month="4" start_day="15" start_day_of_week="6"
Each team plays 159 games. Teams play each other from 19 to 28 times. Teams play from 76 to 81 home games.
Season starts on April 15 and ends on September 18. Weekday games start at 3:00. Weekend and holiday (Decoration Day - 5/30) start at 1:00. Double-headers start at noon and 3:00. August 5 game between San Antonio and Wichita Falls starts at 10:00 a.m.
The league was effectively split into two divisions: Galveston, Houston, Beaumont, and San Antonio (South) and Shreveport, Dallas, Ft. Worth, and Wichita Falls (North). That was a common practice for scheduling purposes - the NL and AL had unofficial east and west divisions for decades. What's unusual here is that the clubs actually played more games against their "divisional" foes. The league, however, did not adopt a divisional format. Instead, it played a split schedule, with the first half probably ending after the games on July 2 or July 6.
This is the schedule as printed in
The Sporting News (2/3/1921), with the following match-ups in the final series (9/16 to 9/18): Dallas at Shreveport; Ft. Worth at Wichita Falls; Galveston at San Antonio; Houston at Beaumont.
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But the schedule had an added wrinkle: the team that was ahead in the standings on September 10 would get to decide where to play its final series of the year. As a result, all but the Dallas-Shreveport series were flipped from the published schedule. This led to a greater disparity in the home-road split, with teams now playing from 76 to 84 home games. That switch is reflected in the following alternate schedule:
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