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Old 02-19-2016, 11:37 PM   #93
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Originally Posted by joefromchicago View Post
That's putting it mildly. The Negro Leagues were a disaster in terms of organization and statistics. I've been trying to piece together schedules for the Negro Leagues and it's a nightmare. The teams definitely treated league games as a distraction from more lucrative barnstorming.
I came across a couple of published schedules for the Negro Leagues. How closely said published schedule was adhered to when the season was actually on is another matter entirely.

It's a damned shame though that probably a good chunk of the data for the Negro Leagues is simply lost to history...
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