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What I just added above I did without thought to the continued discussion here. The two versions have the interleague in the big swings like requested, the first with somewhat staggered starts and the second with everyone going into interleague at the same time. Obviously there are monster homestands & roadtrips in both, but in the second I kept the consecutive days without an offday down to modern MLB standard.
I made those like any typical one I usually make with the modern type of total offdays and mostly keeping the integrity of the "baseball week" (having two series within Mon-Sun and not having series cross Sun into Mon). I just worked in the interleague details into scheme, bending the rules of thumb to do so. With better planning than what I put into these there could be other results. If historical accuracy is key, play could be taken from Sundays, making that work as a travel day. Maybe the "travelling to interleague play" 2 days could be pushed to 3-4 days like it was another series. That and other possibilities open the door to stretching out the season with more offdays, though perhaps that is not desired. Doubleheaders, longer series than 3-4 days, and ditching the Mon-Sun week (not basically always going with an early week series then a late week/weekend series) open up other possibilities.
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