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

[Scott Garner]

I'm trying to locate what home game number was the game played on 5/2/1917 in the original 1917 Cubs schedule.
Can anybody help with this? Quite possibly a 1917 National League schedule would have this info as well...
Thanks in advance for your help!

[doug.goodman]

Hi Scott -

I hope this helps :

Apr 11, 12, 13, 14 home Pitt
Apr 15, 16, 17, 18 home St L
Apr 19, 20, 21 AWAY Pitt
Apr 22, 23, 24, 25, 26 AWAY Cincy
Apr 27, 28, 29, 30 AWAY St L
May 1 AWAY St L
May 2,3,4,5 home Cincy

Season game #22, home game #9

Sorry for the crap pictures stitched together, I can't open the book wide enough to scan it.

Doug

[Scott Garner]

Wow, Doug, that's great!
Can you confirm then that the game played on 5/2/1917 @ CHI would be home game #9?
Thanks,
Scott

[carlsonjok]

Originally Posted by Scott Garner

Wow, Doug, that's great!
Can you confirm then that the game played on 5/2/1917 @ CHI would be home game #9?
Thanks,
Scott

Baseball Reference shows it as the 9th home game, but only the 18th overall. I'm assuming that there were some rain outs in there.

[Scott Garner]

Originally Posted by carlsonjok

Baseball Reference shows it as the 9th home game, but only the 18th overall. I'm assuming that there were some rain outs in there.

Thanks!
You are correct.
Several rainouts for Chicago in April. Four I believe...

[doug.goodman]

Originally Posted by Scott Garner

Thanks!
You are correct.
Several rainouts for Chicago in April. Four I believe...

Apr 17 moved to June 29
Apr 27 moved to first game of June 26 DH
Apr 28 moved to first game of June 27 DH
Apr 30 moved to first game of Sept 2 DH

All according to BBRef.


So, May 2 was the 22nd game scheduled for the season, but the 18th actually played.

And, it was the 9th scheduled home game, but the 8th actually played.

Doug

[mrreality68]

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And
Amazing how fast we can find and share it

[Scott Garner]

Originally Posted by doug.goodman

Apr 17 moved to June 29
Apr 27 moved to first game of June 26 DH
Apr 28 moved to first game of June 27 DH
Apr 30 moved to first game of Sept 2 DH

All according to BBRef.


So, May 2 was the 22nd game scheduled for the season, but the 18th actually played.

And, it was the 9th scheduled home game, but the 8th actually played.

Doug

Doug,
That's extremely helpful info & thanks for your help.
Scott

[Scott Garner]

Originally Posted by mrreality68

Amazing what people on this forum have
And
Amazing how fast we can find and share it

Absolutely!
That's one of the great things about being a board member at net54.

[carlsonjok]

Originally Posted by doug.goodman

Apr 17 moved to June 29
Apr 27 moved to first game of June 26 DH
Apr 28 moved to first game of June 27 DH
Apr 30 moved to first game of Sept 2 DH

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

[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