Employers fired workers who joined labor originations, so the Knights met secretly and used special handshakes to identify each other. Unlike most unions, the Knights recruited people who had been kept out if grade unions, including women, African Americans, & unskilled laborers. In Philadelphia.
The Regular Season. The Major League Baseball season runs from the start of April to the end of September, with each club playing 162 games. That means about one day off every ten days, so baseball is pretty much game-a-day.
The regular baseball season now extends over six full months: The first regular season game is scheduled for April 5, and the last for October 4. The World Series is not expected to start until October 28, a full 24 days after the season ends, and will almost certainly extend into November again. For those of us for whom there is no such thing as too much baseball, this is a fine arrangement, but seven months of baseball is a lot and does not come without a cost.