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joefromchicago · 09-05-2021, 06:35 PM

1888 NEW ENGLAND INTERSTATE LEAGUE

Teams:

Dover
Haverhill (MA)
Nashua
Portsmouth Lillies
Rochester

All teams in NH except for Haverhill

Schedule Characteristics:

SCHEDULE type="ILN_BGY_G88_T5_C_" inter_league="0" balanced_games="1" games_per_team="88" start_month="5" start_day="12" start_day_of_week="7"

Each team plays 88 games. Teams play each opponent 22 times.

Season starts on May 12 and ends on September 22. Weekday and Saturday games start at 3:00. Holiday split double-header games start at 10:00 and 3:00. No games on Sundays.

Why not follow a seven-team league with a five-team league? This one required a bit of research. Baseball Reference lists this as the New England Interstate League, probably to differentiate it from the Interstate League, which existed in various forms primarily in Ohio and Pennsylvania, and the Central Interstate League, which also played in 1888 and which BR confusingly refers to as the Interstate League. My source (Boston Globe, 5/3/1888) simply called it the Interstate League, without the "New England" qualifier.

BR identifies Dover as Dover, DE and Rochester as Rochester, NY. That can't be right. The amount of travel for such a small league would have been ridiculous if teams from Delaware and New York were members. Furthermore, Rochester, NY had a club in the International Association that year. It makes much more sense that those cities were Dover and Rochester, NH, thus making for a very compact and cost-effective circuit.

There were some obvious errors in the schedule that I corrected. My source did not identify which teams hosted the split home-and-home double-headers on Decoration Day and Independence Day, so I guessed. The schedule has Haverhill playing two home games on September 3 - the first Monday in September - against Dover and Nashua. I thought that this was a misprint, but it seems that Massachusetts recognized Labor Day as a holiday in 1887 - seven years before it became a federal holiday. So it makes sense that Haverhill, the only team in the league located in Massachusetts, would have had a double-header (morning and afternoon) on Labor Day.

New England Interstate League 1888.lsdl

09-05-2021, 06:35 PM	#213
joefromchicago Hall Of Famer Join Date: Jun 2011 Posts: 3,706	1888 NEW ENGLAND INTERSTATE LEAGUE Teams: Dover Haverhill (MA) Nashua Portsmouth Lillies Rochester All teams in NH except for Haverhill Schedule Characteristics: SCHEDULE type="ILN_BGY_G88_T5_C_" inter_league="0" balanced_games="1" games_per_team="88" start_month="5" start_day="12" start_day_of_week="7" Each team plays 88 games. Teams play each opponent 22 times. Season starts on May 12 and ends on September 22. Weekday and Saturday games start at 3:00. Holiday split double-header games start at 10:00 and 3:00. No games on Sundays. Why not follow a seven-team league with a five-team league? This one required a bit of research. Baseball Reference lists this as the New England Interstate League, probably to differentiate it from the Interstate League, which existed in various forms primarily in Ohio and Pennsylvania, and the Central Interstate League, which also played in 1888 and which BR confusingly refers to as the Interstate League. My source (Boston Globe, 5/3/1888) simply called it the Interstate League, without the "New England" qualifier. BR identifies Dover as Dover, DE and Rochester as Rochester, NY. That can't be right. The amount of travel for such a small league would have been ridiculous if teams from Delaware and New York were members. Furthermore, Rochester, NY had a club in the International Association that year. It makes much more sense that those cities were Dover and Rochester, NH, thus making for a very compact and cost-effective circuit. There were some obvious errors in the schedule that I corrected. My source did not identify which teams hosted the split home-and-home double-headers on Decoration Day and Independence Day, so I guessed. The schedule has Haverhill playing two home games on September 3 - the first Monday in September - against Dover and Nashua. I thought that this was a misprint, but it seems that Massachusetts recognized Labor Day as a holiday in 1887 - seven years before it became a federal holiday. So it makes sense that Haverhill, the only team in the league located in Massachusetts, would have had a double-header (morning and afternoon) on Labor Day. New England Interstate League 1888.lsdl __________________ American-Ethnic (and Canadian) Namesets Historical Minor League Schedules 1870s City/Team Nickname Randomizers "It's Usually Sunny in Philadelphia" weather mod Negro League Schedules Last edited by joefromchicago; 09-05-2021 at 06:51 PM.