1878 INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION
Teams:
Cricket of Binghamton (NY)
Buffalo (NY) Bisons
Hornellsville (NY) Hornells
Tecumseh of London (ONT)
Lowell (MA)
Live Oak of Lynn (MA)
Manchester (NH)
New Bedford (MA)
Allegheny of Pittsburgh (PA)
Rochester (NY)
Springfield (MA)
Syracuse (NY) Stars
Utica (NY)
Lynn is listed in BR as having been replaced by Worcester (MA), although Lynn had disbanded the year before and so may never have played. New Bedford is listed along with New Haven and Hartford (both CT).
Schedule Characteristics:
SCHEDULE type="ILN_BGY_G48_T13_C_" inter_league="0" balanced_games="1" games_per_team="48" start_month="4" start_day="16" start_day_of_week="3"
Each team plays 48 games. Teams play each other 4 times.
Season starts on April 16 and ends on August 31. All games start at 3:00. No Sunday games.
Binghamton is listed (
The New York Clipper, 4/20/1878) as playing both Syracuse and Allegheny at home on May 20. Although that's not impossible, I regard it as highly unlikely. Consequently, I moved the Syracuse-Binghamton game to July 6.
Buffalo, led by ace pitcher Pud Galvin, and Syracuse, the top teams in the International Association, joined the National League in 1879.
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