I guess it wasn't as easy to make up rainouts and games that couldn't continue after dark back in the days of trains but still I never realized they actually had pennant winners with uneven # of games, other than 1972 when one of the first strikes cost the Red Sox (they were 85-70, the Tigers were 86-70 and the extra game never got made up).
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I guess it wasn't as easy to make up rainouts and games that couldn't continue after dark back in the days of trains but still I never realized they actually had pennant winners with uneven # of games, other than 1972 when one of the first strikes cost the Red Sox (they were 85-70, the Tigers were 86-70 and the extra game never got made up).
Not to get too off topic, but the one that seemed most wrong was what happened to the Reds in 1981 during the strike shortened season. Best record in baseball but didn't make the playoffs.
They split the halfs like minor league ball and let the two winners of each half make the playoffs. I think that was Seaver's final Cy Young season too.
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