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1924 American Association & International League schedule file
16 teams, 8 teams per league, 1 division per league
168 game balanced schedule (24 games against each of the 7 other teams in the league)
No interleague games
Settings for 1924:
Year starts on: Wednesday
Season starts: April 15 (Tuesday)
All-Star Game: none
This schedule file contains the exact original schedules for the American Association and International League for the 1924 season. I thought I'd offer another example of a minor league schedule.
As with the 1941 SA-TL season, the 1924 campaign takes place over a shorter time period than would a major league schedule playing the same number of games. The AA opens on Tue. April 15, with the IL opening a day later. Both leagues finish up the regular season on Sun. Sept. 28. The two league pennant winners then met in the best-of-9 Junior World Series.
To fit in the 168 games into the 166/167 day season, there are naturally a fair number of doubleheaders played. The teams in both leagues averaged just slightly over 9 doubleheaders each. The main exception was the Toronto Maple Leafs of the IL, who played 17 for the season, due to the fact that the club was not legally allowed to play Sunday games at home. (It was the only club in either league still playing with that restriction; it wasn't until the 1950 season that the team was finally permitted to play Sunday games at home.)
Since night games in the minors were still 6 years away, all games are of course day contests. The times have been set to 3 p.m. local and then adjusted for the time zone of the host city. Doubleheaders begin at either 1 p.m. or 2 p.m. local time, with the second game set to start three hours later.
While both the AA and IL were to play 168 game schedules for a few more years, 1924 was the only year in which the IL stretched out its season to almost the same calendar length as the AA. In the years prior and in the subsequent years, the IL returned to a shorter calendar length, squeezing in its 168 games in just 159 days. The result was that the IL finished its regular season a week before the AA did.
Enjoy!
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