1895 SOUTHERN ASSOCIATION
Teams:
Atlanta Crackers
Chattanooga Warriors
Evansville Black Birds
Little Rock Travelers
Memphis Lambs/Giants
Montgomery Grays
Nashville Seraphs
New Orleans Pelicans
Chattanooga dropped out mid-season and was replaced by the Mobile Bluebirds
Schedule Characteristics:
SCHEDULE type="ILN_BGY_G108_T8_C_" inter_league="0" balanced_games="1" games_per_team="108" start_month="4" start_day="25" start_day_of_week="5"
Teams play 108 games. Teams play each other either 12 or 20 times.
Season starts on April 25 and ends on September 2. Weekday games start at 3:00. Weekend and holiday games start at 1:00. July 4 double-headers start at noon and 3:00.
The published schedules in both
The Sporting News and
Sporting Life have Evansville playing a home game on Sunday, June 23 and Little Rock and New Orleans playing Sunday home games on September 1. That seemed implausible to me, as those are the only Sunday games on the schedule and Sunday ball was prohibited in most southern states until much later. Both papers, however, reported Evansville (and New Orleans) playing home games on June 23 (by the end of the season, it was evident that the schedule had been rewritten, so the accuracy of the scheduled September 1 dates can't be verified). As a result, I didn't move the Sunday games.
Southern Association 1895.lsdl
This is another schedule where teams in unofficial "divisions" play each other more often than teams in the other "division." So I went ahead and made a divisional schedule with the following characteristics:
SCHEDULE type="ILN_BGN_G108_SL1_D1_T4_D2_T4_C_" inter_league="0" balanced_games="0" games_per_team="108" start_month="4" start_day="25" start_day_of_week="5"
Atlanta, Chattanooga, Evansville, and Nashville are in the Eastern Division. Little Rock, Memphis, Montgomery, and New Orleans are in the Western Division. Teams play divisional rivals 20 times and teams in the other division 12 times.
Southern Association 1895 (mod div).lsdl
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