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.
Why does the MLB play 162 games? In 1961 and 1962, when first the A and then the NL expanded from 8 to 10 teams, the schedule was increased from 154 geams (equal to 22 games, 11 home and 11 away, against eachâ¦ of the other teams in the league) to 162 games (equal to 18 games, 9 home and 9 away).