A week ago, the APBA Company took us back a few years and posted an old advertisement on their website from the Dick Seitz era hawking their t-shirts and bumper stickers. I remember the ad well. In fact, I had the bumper sticker up on my garage wall when I…
I’m chronicling the exploits of Tyler “51-13” Colvin as he makes it through the 2012 season on my IAL Twin City Thunderchickens. Check me out, I’m getting my Illowa APBA League stats five days ahead of time! That’s atypical of me. I usually wait till 11:30pm of the deadline date…
Ok, call me strange but what strikes me as interesting about this week’s MCM, 1930 Pie Traynor, is this… he has a 13-39 but a 26-14. Don’t think I didn’t notice the abbreviation of his hometown, either. Aside from that, I love this card. I had a affinity for Harold…
On our Facebook page, Al White shared an article from his website Al’s Gaming Blog detailing his replay of the 1933 All-Star Game. MVP Chick Hafey with the rest of his Cardinal teammates in Al’s 1933 All-Star Game replay An exciting game it was as the AL’s Al Simmons went…
I got thinking about APBA Baseball’s result number 12 after reading about the proposed change to keep it in one spot in my interview of John Herson. There were even a few comments by readers who noticed the possible change to the ol’ one-two. There’s no doubt about it, there…
As he does from time to time, APBA Company CEO John Herson answered a few questions for The APBA Blog. In this interview, there’s a focus on the latest changes within APBA in the last year or so. Mr. Herson talks to us about the APBA Company’s online presence and…
You can pretty much ignore last night’s post about Patch 1A for APBA Baseball 5.75 because Patch 2 just got released by the APBA Company. Here is the link to the download post at apbagames.com. This pdf describes what the current patch fixes. In short: There was a problem in…
First, a big thanks to Pastor Rich Zawadzki. A big APBA baseball fan, Pastor Rich blessed with me several scans of APBA cards which will make viable Monster Card Monday candidates. Thanks to him, I’m set for the next couple months! We’re going back to the 19th century for this…
There appears to be a new patch available for APBA Baseball 5.75. There isn’t any info on it yet but it is called Patch 1A. I installed the original patch a couple days ago. Here is the screen capture from the About window: I just downloaded the patch again and…
Our APBA baseball league is entering into discussions that might change it quite drastically. We’re talking about (drum roll) roster expansion. A little background… The Illowa APBA League is a 10-team continuous ownership league which uses the APBA Basic Game. For as long as I can remember, the IAL has…