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Originally Posted by joefromchicago
I'm not sure when Memorial Day and Independence Day started being observed on either Friday or Monday when those holidays fell on a weekend - I think some states started doing that in the 1930s.
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From what I recall of the holidays for the major leagues, when Memorial or Independence Day fell on Sunday the Monday was the holiday; Saturdays were left as Saturdays. That means, if those holidays fell on Sunday, there'd typically be doubleheaders both Sunday
and Monday.
Since Labor Day is keyed to a day of the week, it's fairly easy to get a schedule to have that holiday fall properly. (Minor league schedules, for example, are often arranged so that they close on the Labor Day holiday.)
Memorial Day was on May 30th of each year through 1970; starting in 1971 it was moved to the last Monday in May. Note that clubs in Boston also got the Patriot's Day holiday as well (April 19th of each year through 1968; the third Monday of April from 1969 onwards). Schedules that lasted longer saw clubs get the Columbus Day holiday (Oct. 12th of each year through 1970; second Monday in October from 1971 onward).
For those wanting to see what the calendar is for any given year, Google the term 'perpetual calendar'. (I have somewhere a printed version of a perpetual calendar that I got years ago.)