According to Retrosheet's game log for the 2012 season, the average length for a normal-length game (8½-9 innings, 51-54 outs) was 175.96 minutes. The shortest was 118 minutes; the longest was 255 minutes.
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Originally Posted by D-BacksJosh
Back in the 70's games averaged 2.5 hours. I guess those were the days.
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I actually put together a graph taken from Retrosheet's game logs which showed the average length in minutes of a normal-length game (8½-9 innings, 51-54 outs) for all the seasons for which there were sufficient data. Last year when Markus added the Real Time Simulation feature to OOTP I sent him the info so the typical length of games as taken for RTS could vary in accordance with the era.
If I get the chance I'll post it later on.