APBA CEO John Herson asked me to pass this on to everyone… Update 5.75 The purpose of this is to update you on the status of APBA Baseball 5.75. A patch is being prepared. A list of features in this patch will be distributed as soon as its available. While…
APBA Baseball 5.75 published by APBA Games, the long awaited successor to version 5.5 has finally shipped. As a long time APBA dice and boards player, I wasn’t even sure I was going to order it for a while but quite honestly the price point of $22 made it difficult…
I received an email from Robby W who posed a frequently asked question: My mother in law gave me 2 packs of old baseball cards. They are Kansas City Royals and New York Mets. How can I find out what year they are from and could you tell me a…
Dom Provisiero of the O.Z. League crafted this guest post for today: As some of you already know; I created the O.Z. League (APBA BASEBALL) in 1982. So for 30 years I have been drafting and acquiring MLB players for my Ozone Outlaws team. And every once in a while…
I’ve just started exploring APBA Baseball 5.75 and even played my first game, a pickup game between the 1961 Yankees and the Cubs. Predictably, the AL champs defeated the lowly Cubs with the help of Whitey Ford who pitched a 3-0 shutout. I plan to do a more in-depth review…
A printing snafu means that the 2011 APBA Football Cards will be delayed a little this year. From the APBA Company website: “Yesterday afternoon the printer’s van arrived. We first unloaded the American Conference sets, then the National Conference, then the playoff team sets and lastly the XFs. As I…
There seems to be an issue with the AIM settings with the new APBA Baseball 5.75 release. APBA CEO John Herson passed this on to me to post. AIM Settings corrections The 19th, early 20th, and mid 20th have their wires crossed so the games assigns the wrong AIM settings…
I just got my APBA Baseball 5.75 disk in the mail last yesterday. I’ve already quickly installed it on my laptop but haven’t had time to play around with it much. In the next couple days, I’ll give it a stress test and by the weekend I’ll write up my…
As some of you know, my earliest memories of baseball were of the Chicago Cubs of the late 60s and early 70s. I remember the likes of Ernie Banks, Ron Santo, Glenn Beckert and yes, Fergie Jenkins. Canadian-born Ferguson Jenkins was the crown jewel of the Cubs’ pitching staff. …
Five ribbies for “Jolly Cholly” I love emails with the subject line “News Flash” especially when they regard events from 1930. The Chicago Cubs destroy the Cincinnati Reds 27-3 Date: 5-26-30 The Cubs had 31 hits 11 walks and 6 home runs. They had 9 batters come to the…