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Effectively Wild Episode 1973: Season Preview Series: Phillies and Orioles

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

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Three Team Double Headers in the Majors

The three team double header was a one-year experiment in the 1973 season. The Miami Orioles general manager said fans didn't like it because they had to wait so long for new teams to get warmed up. A computer generated schedule, and this seemed to be the only feasible one, he says. "It was just a far from ideal system in many ways," O'Brien says.

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