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1969 MLB Original Schedules
24 teams, 12 teams per league, 2 divisions of 6 teams in each league
Games: 162
Length: 179 days
Interleague: No
Format: Divisional
A team plays 18 games against each of its 5 divisional opponents (18 x 5 = 90 games)
A team plays 12 games against each of the 6 clubs in the other division (12 x 6 = 72 games)
Year starts on: Wednesday
Season opens: Mon. Apr. 7
Season closes: Thur. Oct. 2
All-Star Game: Tue. July 22
Total scheduled doubleheaders: 110
Average home stand length: 7.4 games
Average of longest home stands: 12.9 games
Longest home stand: 17 games (CAL, SE1, SDN)
Average road trip length: 7.4 games
Average of longest road trips: 13.4 games
Longest road trip: 18 games (MON)
Average stretch of consecutive play: 6.5 days
Average of longest stretches of consecutive play: 27.3 days
Longest stretch of consecutive play: 41 days (MON)
Series scheduled
1-game: 007
2-game: 148
3-game: 332
4-game: 155
5-game: 005
TOTAL:w647
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"We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things not because they are easy, but because they are hard. Because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our abilities and skills, because that challenge is one we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win."
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