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.
MLB says new rules speeding up game times. Major League Baseball's new pace-of-game rules already appear to be having a major impact early this season. According to MLB, the new rules helped to cut nearly eight minutes off the average time of a nine-inning game over the first week of the 2015 season.