No rest for the weary

Here is a story from the Lancaster (Pa.) Intelligencer-Journal about the schedule in the Atlantic League, considered the top independent league. The Atlantic plays a 140-game schedule in 150 days. There is only one scheduled off day from July 29 to Sept. 21.

By comparison, the Frontier League plays 96 games in 106 days. There are three scheduled off days between July 29 and the end of its regular season Sept. 3.

The Frontier League prefers to run its league from the Wednesday before Memorial Day to the Wednesday after Labor Day, a span of 15 weeks. It will be interesting to see what the 2009 schedule looks like. Because of when the holidays fall next year, there is an extra week between Memorial Day and Labor Day. Do that mean more games?

Atlantic League schedule story.