A few years ago, the rights to the APBA Journal, the monthly newsletter about the APBA game that published from 1967-2002, was purchased by an unknown entity. Now, the AJ is outing itself and can be found online. It now has a fan page on Facebook. New York attorney Robert…
We haven’t done a league profile in a while so it was good to hear from Bryan from the Northern States League. Judging from the standings page on their website, the NSL spans a great deal of the northern US from Vermont to Michigan. Do check out NSL’s webpage. It’s…
Good news! Bruce Norlander aka Padres Manager on APBA- Between the Lines, is posting his annual pitching predictions on his own website! His site, called Archrivals Baseball is billed as simply as “APBA Baseball Info” and that it certainly is. I’m looking forward to more from him. Here are his…
The APBA Game Company has made a few announcements concerning some new products. One, the 2011 Football cards are shipping! After a delay due to printing issues, they are finally on the way. Enjoy, gridiron fans! APBA Blog writer is excited that the Company is selling the 2012 Ryder Cup…
Yesterday, I posted some pitching predictions that Mike Bunch did for the Illowa APBA League. Today, I’m posting the hitters he did for us. Mike actually went as far as to predict second column numbers but for simplicity and formatting reasons, I’m leaving them off. Again, if the list seems…
Each year, Mike Bunch our esteemed commissioner of the Illowa APBA League, comes out with his annual card predictions for the players on our teams. Mike’s pretty accurate I have to admit, rivaling Bruce Norlander from the APBA Between the Lines forum. It does seem that they have different formulas…
It seems every day, I’m learning something new about APBA- and a lot of times it’s from questions I receive from readers. Today was no exception. Fred F. wrote me with a simple question about identifying APBA Football sets: I have a set of APBA football cards but cannot remember…
Back to Monster “Cards” but not necessarily Monster “Players”. Dave Tomlin was a journeyman reliever in the National League in the 70s and 80s who exhibited decent control with a respectable 3.82 ERA for his career. In 1979, he even had a pretty good APBA hitting card. That year when…
I did a slight double take the other day when my daily kilg.us email with the stats of my team’s ballplayers came. All goose eggs for every player. Then two seconds later, I realized it was the day after the season ended. I then thought that there was no time…