On April 12, 1875, the Globe-Democrat published "the complete programme for the Western games in May" and I think it's interesting to compare this schedule with the completed one.
According to the Globe, this was the schedule for Reds and Brown Stockings' games:
May 1 St. Louis vs. Red Stockings at St. Louis
May 4 St. Louis vs. Red Stockings at St. Louis
May 6 Chicago vs. St. Louis at St. Louis
May 6 Red Stockings vs. Keokuk at Keokuk
May 8 Chicago vs. St. Louis at St. Louis
May 8 Red Stocking vs. Keokuk at St. Louis
May 11 St. Louis vs. Keokuk at Keokuk
May 11 Chicago vs. Red Stockings at St. Louis
May 12 St. Louis vs. Keokuk at Keokuk
May 13 Chicago vs. Red Stockings at St. Louis
May 19 Chicago vs. St. Louis at Chicago
May 19 Keokuk vs. Red Stockings at St. Louis
May 22 Chicago vs. St. Louis at Chicago
May 22 Keokuk vs. Red Stockings at St. Louis
May 25 Chicago vs. Red Stockings at Chicago
May 25 St. Louis vs. Keokuk at St. Louis
May 27 Chicago vs. Red Stockings at Chicago
May 27 St. Louis vs. Keokuk at St. Louis
The game on the 1st between the Brown Stockings and the Reds was not played according to E.H. Tobias because of inclement weather. It was rescheduled and played on May 29.
The May 11th game between the Brown Stockings and Westerns was not played but looks like it was made up on May 13th.
The May 19th game between the Reds and Westerns was not played nor was the game on the 22nd. The games were cancelled due to what the Globe called "the forbidding aspect of the weather" and this lead to the ten men-ten inning game the Reds and Westerns played on May 23rd.
The rest of the games were played as scheduled.
I've mentioned the poor weather that St. Louis experienced in May 1875 several times and how I believe this effected the attendance. Looking at this set of data we can see that three of the eleven games scheduled in St. Louis were postponed due to weather and we know of at least one more (the May 11th game between the Reds and the Chicagos) that was played in less than ideal circumstances.
Looking at historical weather data from the National Weather Service, May 1875 was the wettest May St. Louis would see for ten years but it wasn't radically outside the norm (5.48 inches of rain compared to an average of 4.13 inches over the last one hundred and seventy years). June 1875, however, would be the wettest June St. Louis would see for a hundred years, with 10.84 inches of rain compared to the average of 4.07. Certainly we can say that May and June 1875 saw substantially more rain than normal (almost 17 inches of rain compared to the average of eight) and this impacted both the schedule and the attendance in St. Louis that year.
According to the Globe, this was the schedule for Reds and Brown Stockings' games:
May 1 St. Louis vs. Red Stockings at St. Louis
May 4 St. Louis vs. Red Stockings at St. Louis
May 6 Chicago vs. St. Louis at St. Louis
May 6 Red Stockings vs. Keokuk at Keokuk
May 8 Chicago vs. St. Louis at St. Louis
May 8 Red Stocking vs. Keokuk at St. Louis
May 11 St. Louis vs. Keokuk at Keokuk
May 11 Chicago vs. Red Stockings at St. Louis
May 12 St. Louis vs. Keokuk at Keokuk
May 13 Chicago vs. Red Stockings at St. Louis
May 19 Chicago vs. St. Louis at Chicago
May 19 Keokuk vs. Red Stockings at St. Louis
May 22 Chicago vs. St. Louis at Chicago
May 22 Keokuk vs. Red Stockings at St. Louis
May 25 Chicago vs. Red Stockings at Chicago
May 25 St. Louis vs. Keokuk at St. Louis
May 27 Chicago vs. Red Stockings at Chicago
May 27 St. Louis vs. Keokuk at St. Louis
The game on the 1st between the Brown Stockings and the Reds was not played according to E.H. Tobias because of inclement weather. It was rescheduled and played on May 29.
The May 11th game between the Brown Stockings and Westerns was not played but looks like it was made up on May 13th.
The May 19th game between the Reds and Westerns was not played nor was the game on the 22nd. The games were cancelled due to what the Globe called "the forbidding aspect of the weather" and this lead to the ten men-ten inning game the Reds and Westerns played on May 23rd.
The rest of the games were played as scheduled.
I've mentioned the poor weather that St. Louis experienced in May 1875 several times and how I believe this effected the attendance. Looking at this set of data we can see that three of the eleven games scheduled in St. Louis were postponed due to weather and we know of at least one more (the May 11th game between the Reds and the Chicagos) that was played in less than ideal circumstances.
Looking at historical weather data from the National Weather Service, May 1875 was the wettest May St. Louis would see for ten years but it wasn't radically outside the norm (5.48 inches of rain compared to an average of 4.13 inches over the last one hundred and seventy years). June 1875, however, would be the wettest June St. Louis would see for a hundred years, with 10.84 inches of rain compared to the average of 4.07. Certainly we can say that May and June 1875 saw substantially more rain than normal (almost 17 inches of rain compared to the average of eight) and this impacted both the schedule and the attendance in St. Louis that year.
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