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Originally Posted by canadiancreed
So for example you'd have the eastern teams visitiong the west one year, while the oppisite the next year? That'd be intresting for sure, and with the Sunday ban that you mentioned, would fit inot a reduced schedule.
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Not what I was suggesting, but that is another idea too. I just plan to have my western league playing week-long series (i.e. 6 or 7 games long) for as much of the season as possible. With such long series, it greatly reduces the overall number of series needed, and hence the amount of travelling a team would do. This is what the PCL did to cut down on the mileage its teams would have otherwise racked up in that far-flung league.
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Originally Posted by canadiancreed
i'm guessing that it might be a province wide thing? if so that would take care of that. All we'd need is the years for saskatchewan, Nova Scotia, and NFLD.
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It wasn't provincial in Ontario. Toronto was actually the first municipality to permit Sunday pro sports. Ottawa, which also had a team in the International League from 1951-54, did not play Sunday home games. Or at least, none are listed on the published schedules.
If the first date of Sunday home games in the CFL are any indication, then Hamilton didn't okay Sunday pro sports until 1961, Ottawa not until 1965, and Regina not until 1966.
However, CFL Sunday game starts may not be a very good measure, since even though pro baseball was being played on Sundays in Toronto starting in 1950, the Argos didn't play their first Sunday home game until 1959. Calgary and Edmonton, in spite of allowing pro baseball on Sundays starting in 1954, the Stampeders and Eskimos didn't play their first Sunday home games until 1967. But at least it's some kind of guideline at any rate.
Oh, and by the way, I've nearly finished my attempt at a league logo for your Dominion of Canada Baseball Association. Hopefully I can have it posted up Sunday or Monday, if things conclude well.