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Originally Posted by canadiancreed
Ya i'm trying to replicate the fact that at the time, all their was to travel by was train. Now I dont know how long it took to do cross country back then, but I figure that once they were on the west end of the country, they'd want to do all their games against opponets at ocne to save on travel costs. and vice versa for the western teams heading east.
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How historical are you constructing this league? Does it contain the historical 16 MLB cities, or is it a fictionalized mix of cities?
As to train travel times, a New York to Chicago train run took around 16½ hours in 1937; in 1930, a Chicago to Los Angeles train trip took 63 hours, later reduced to 58 hours.
The interleague schedule format that was proposed for the majors several times would have seen 4 games played against each of the teams in the other league, or 32 games in all. Games against league rivals were to be played 18 times each, or 126 games in all. Together, however, this made for a 158 game schedule; to keep it at 154 games, it was suggested that a club would play two teams in interleague matches only twice instead of four times. The lower number of contests against certain interleague teams could be rotated over a period of years to keep things even in the long-term.