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.
(USA TODAY Sports Images) Baseball games are getting longer. In 2010, games lasted on average about two hours and 55 minutes, according to Baseball Prospectus. The average game has increased steadily in length every season since, and contests in 2014 have averaged about 3:08.