When the Illowa APBA League got together this past weekend, I got a blast from the past. This is what happened.
We were all done playing for the night Friday and ready to hit the sack. Weekend host John Brandeberry told us that he had a stack of APBA Journals if anyone wanted some reading material. I‘m always game for perusing some AJs so I grabbed the stack before laying down on the sofa. I read articles asking “Will Barry Bonds get four 1s?” (and subsequent one declaring that no, he did not). All very interesting and fun to read.
Then I ran across an oddly familiar article from 2001 entitled, Amtrak to APBA: One Man’s Convention Story. “Hmm, this looks interesting I’ll give it a read”, I thought.
Then it hit me. “Hey, wait a minute! I wrote that!”
Up until then, I had forgotten I had written this three-page article that then-AJ editor Eric Naftaly published. Reading the article, it all came back to me. The piece details my train trip I took with John Brandeberry and two other friends to the national APBA convention. It includes descriptions of the people I met and the trials of my 1982 Montreal Expos in the convention tournament (Naftaly had his way with me).
So if any of you have the October 31, 2001 of the APBA Journal you can revel in my brief jaunt in the print media.
