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Originally Posted by canadiancreed
The team locations are as follows
Eastern: St. Johns, Halifax, Quebec City, Ottawa, Kingston, Hamilton, Guelph, London
Western: Thunder Bay(called Fort William at the time), Winnipeg (2), Regina, Calgary, Edmonton, Vancouver (2)
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Hmmm, sounds a bit like a fictional league I'm planning to run when OOTP7 comes out. Only in my case I'm basing it loosely on the history of the CFL and Canadian football in general.
While your Eastern league wouldn't have too much trouble with intraleague travel, save for perhaps trips out to the Atlantic cities, your Western league is very spread out.
The solution I'm taking in tackling my similarly distributed western league is to adopt a PCL-style schedule, where nearly all series are one week long to reduce the travel burden. Since Sunday baseball wasn't first legal out west until the 1950's, I'm having teams play Monday through Saturday, with Sundays off for travel (I may use doubleheaders on Saturday as well).
Given your setup, if you want to keep a better semblance of historical reality, I would recommend making your interleague matchups 4 per team, 2 at home and 2 away. Have all the western teams go east at the same time, and each western club would play a total of 16 games out east before heading home. That's not too bad of a road trip, and it means each league only has to make one trip per season to the other league's distant cities. You can then play with your intraleague game totals to come up with a season length you want. I would suggest though perhaps keeping it on the shorter side. A 144 game schedule might be good (7 x 16 = 112 intraleague games plus 8 x 4 = 32 interleague games).
Incidentally, below are the first years in which some Canadian cities finally legalized the playing of professional baseball on Sundays (note the year in which the last MLB cities authorized Sunday baseball was Philadelphia and Pittsburgh for the 1934 season):
Montreal: no restrictions (other Quebec cities didn't seem to limit Sunday games either).
Toronto: 1950 season
Calgary: 1954 season
Edmonton: 1954 season
Vancouver: Aug. of 1956
Winnipeg: 1963 season
I'm still trying to find out when other cities, such as Hamilton, Ottawa, and Regina finally legalized the playing of Sunday pro sports.