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.
This week, Major League Baseball released the schedule for the 2015 season. You may have noticed that it starts later and ends later than previous seasonsâbut each team still plays 162 games, just as they have for decades. But how did MLB arrive at such a seemingly arbitrary number? Let's start in 1920. There was baseball before then, but that's when both the National and American Leagues settled on a season length that would hold for over 40 years. At the time, it was simple math: two leagues of eight teams eachâthere were no divisions yetâmeant each team had seven rivals.