And as the author of a popular new childrenâs book about a nanny with magical powers, the eccentric writer â who is unmarried and yearns for a son â seems the ideal person. 1  Pamela Travers, the woman who wrote Mary Poppins, is pictured with her adopted son Camillus Hone in the Forties. She left his twin brother Anthony at the mercy of neglectful relatives.
Major League Baseball schedule. The Major League Baseball (MLB) season schedule consists of 162 games for each of the 30 teams in the American League (AL) and National League (NL), played over approximately six monthsâa total of 2,430 games, plus the postseason. The regular season typically runs from early April to late September, followed by the postseason in October.
Since then, the leagues have sought to retain the same number of games (162) regardless of the number of teams and have done so by changing who teams play and how many times they face each other. The simplest reason for why baseball seasons are longer than other sports is because they can be.