Does anyone have an original Cubs home schedule for the 1917 season?

[doug.goodman]

Originally Posted by carlsonjok

The amazing thing to me is that they played back to back doubleheaders.

Any conversation on doubleheaders needs to mention that they used to be a total of at least 18 innnings, assuming the first didn't go extra, which may have meant the second got called due to darkness.

Take a look at the schedules from that era, it happened all the time.

In 1917 the Cubs also played back to back doubleheaders July 13 & 14 and Aug 24 & 25 and Sept 22 & 23.

As if that wasn't enough they played three in a row Sept 1-2-3. For that run, they had an off day on Aug 30, and their next off day was Sept 10 (with a DH on Sept 11 and another game on Sept 12. All told, in the 13 days starting Aug 31 thru Aug 12 they played 16 games.

Don't get me started on the "bullpen" games that all these coddled professional so called athletes "need" these days.


I took a look at the Yankees 1930's seasons and in addition to lots of 3 in a row double headers I found a run of 4 days (Aug 25-26-27-28, 1935) where they visited Chicago for EIGHT games against the WSox. Each team used 13 pitchers during the run, with 5 complete games for each team.

In 1938 the Yankees had a run of FIVE straight DH games (Aug 23-24-25-26-27, 1938) at home against the Indians and Sox. In those TEN games in FIVE days the Yanks used 16 pitchers in total, with 5 complete games.

In 1938, the Yankees, after taking July 20-21-22-23 off to watch the rain, they played 77 games in 71 days, including 36 in August.

In the recent 5 game playoff series that the Dodgers played against the Giants over the course of 7 days, the Dodgers used 24 pitchers, the Giants used 25. None went 8 innings, and only 3 went 7.

Doug