1883 INTERSTATE ASSOCIATION
Teams:
Brooklyn (NY) Greys
Merritt of Camden (NJ)
Harrisburg (PA)
Anthracite of Pottsville (PA)
Active of Reading (PA)
Trenton (NJ)
Quickstep of Wilmington (DE)
Schedule Characteristics:
SCHEDULE type="ILN_BGY_G60_T7_C_" inter_league="0" balanced_games="1" games_per_team="60" start_month="5" start_day="1" start_day_of_week="3"
Each team plays 60 games. Teams play each other 10 times.
Season starts on May 1 and ends on September 29. Weekday games start at 3:00. Saturday games start at 1:00. No Sunday or holiday games.
For everyone out there who has been saying "I wish there was a schedule for my seven-team, nineteenth-century league," this is for you. Apart from having an odd number of teams, this schedule is unusual in that the league avoided playing games on Memorial Day and Independence Day (this at a time when the major leagues were already scheduling double-headers on those dates). The printed schedule (
The New York Clipper, 4/14/1883) has Trenton playing at Camden on May 8 - that should be May 18.
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