There’s a new announcement on the APBA Company website regarding the roster expansion of baseball rosters: With the recent announcement about the basic baseball card set count being increased from 20-30 for 2012, we were asked if there would be a list designating the first 20 selections for each major…
Sometimes you can just HEAR your pitcher’s grade go down.
Craig Small who is gearing up for his next All-Time Greats APBA Golf Tournament just sent me this. Just for fun I decided to contact Jack Nicklaus, Nick Faldo, Tom Watson, and Gary Player via their websites and see who they would want as the last four in the tournament.…
Don’t look at the hitting numbers this week; it’s the pitcher’s grade I’m focusing on this time. With Dennis Eckersley’s groundbreaking 1990 performance, he not only got the rare A&B pitching grade from APBA but also the ZZ control rating. Eck gave up only five earned runs in 73 1/3…
Continuing our recent flurry of replay re-caps, Craig Small wrote me an sent in a summary of his All-Time Greats APBA Golf Tournament. He’s also going to expand on that and is asking for input from readers. -Tom by Craig Small Hello, everyone. I just wrapped up my inaugural All-Time…
Yesterday I posted some stats from Mike Bunch’s 1962 full season replay. Mike wrote back with a follow-up including some background on his 1960s project and what happened in the ensuing World Series between the Yankees and the Giants. Here is his summary. -Tom by Mike Bunch This is my…
It’s looking like Replay Week at The APBA Blog. First we had a great writeup from Scott Fennessy on his 1901 APBA replay (plus a World Series followup). Now we’re turning the clocks ahead 61 years and taking a look at 1962. Mike Bunch, our commissioner of the Illowa APBA…
A couple days ago, I posted a detailed summary Scott Fennessy wrote up about his 1901 replay. If you haven’t read it, I encourage you to do so (here is the link). Not only is it a great read but there is some good discussion going on in the comments…
The APBA Company has announced the tentative release date of APBA Baseball 5.75: The release version of APBA Baseball for Windows 5.75 is now being reviewed. Assuming no issues, the CD will be sent to a commercial duplicator to prepare the CDs on Monday, August 6. It will take six…
…for my buddy Don Smith. :-)