The granting of the Charter to William Penn by King Charles II was immortalized by artist Violet Oakley (1874â1961) in one of thirteen murals she painted for the Governor's Reception Room in the Pennsylvania State Capitol. In addition, Quakers rejected all aspects of traditional English society.
MLB announces tentative 2016 schedule. Major League Baseball on Tuesday released its tentative 2016 regular-season schedule, starting with the ESPN Sunday Night Baseball game on April 3 with a matchup to be announced, and then featuring 13 games on the first convergence of Opening Day and Square Root Day: April 4, 2016.
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.