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…
Rivaling our rookie draft, the Illowa APBA League All-Star Game has to be the most exciting time of the year for our league. I think there’s a simple explanation for this… those are the two times in our season that all ten of our managers are at the same table…
There’s no doubt, Stray Corrado has done the impossible. He’s improved on perfection. The much heralded update to his Mid-West Baseball League’s website has been unveiled and indeed, it is a site to behold. When Stray told me he was going to redesign the site, I told him it would…
What’s this, a football Monster Card?? It’s been a while I’ve played an APBA Football game. When I was really into it though, guess who was the premiere running back of the era? That’s right, Walter Payton. That’s his 1977 APBA card you see above. When I was a kid,…
The APBA Company came out with their newsletter yesterday. Golf fans should take note. The highlight article features a free download of the 2012 Ryder Cup golf set. This set includes 24 golfers who are participating this year. Here is the link to download the card set in pdf form. …
Dice shakers… most of us who play the tabletop version of APBA use them. However, I’m wondering how many of us use the APBA-issued yellow dice shakers that come with the game. Do any of you roll with different shakers or cups or perhaps modify the APBA shakers somehow? Perhaps…
Paul Dylan from One for Five brings up a poignant matter. It was twenty years ago today when Dick Seitz, founder of the APBA Game Company, passed on. Maybe it’s me being old but it seems so much longer ago. Some of us hard core APBA fans probably give Dick…