Employers fired workers who joined labor originations, so the Knights met secretly and used special handshakes to identify each other. Unlike most unions, the Knights recruited people who had been kept out if grade unions, including women, African Americans, & unskilled laborers. In Philadelphia.
The Regular Season. The Major League Baseball season runs from the start of April to the end of September, with each club playing 162 games. That means about one day off every ten days, so baseball is pretty much game-a-day.
The sample size is small, but not so small that MLB officials arenât eager to trumpet the results: the average length of a baseball game in 2015 is down almost eight minutes from last year. Advertisement. The 79 nine-inning games so far this year have averaged 2:54:39, down from 3:02:25 in 2014. Thatâs a huge difference! And before you discount the numbers after one week, ESPN notes that the final 2014 game length came in just four seconds off its first-week average.