I’m in the middle of migrating my APBA-related photos to my SmugMug photo gallery and ran across these photos from the 2002 National APBA Convention. Ten years ago, I went to a national APBA Convention in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. It was 2002 and that was when young Brian Wells, at age…
Another APBA weekend coming up! No, it won’t be a full Illowa APBA League convention like we had a month ago but rather a “mini” intra-division get together. I plan to knock off work early and ride up with my buddy Brando to the Quad City area to test our…
Fred Stiely may have missed his calling. A pitcher for the St Louis Browns between the years of 1928 and 1931 he didn’t wow anyone with his arm even considering the elevated offense of the era. In fact, he only pitched 34 plus innings. In that time, he gave up…
Yesterday, I went to the Northern Illinois Vintage Base Ball Tournament in Wheaton, Illinois where they play baseball by the rules and customs of pre-Civil War era (it’s lots of fun if you have a local vintage base ball team in your era). I did a write up on the…
APBA fan Mike Estep is interested in doing some writing for The APBA Blog so I thought I’d have him write up a little intro about himself… and his cool Crosley Field replica he built. -Tom Hello APBA fans and baseball fans in general! My name is Mike Estep and…
Geoff from Facebook’s APBA Football is proposing something pretty exciting for APBA gridiron fans… a 2013 convention geared around APBA Football at the home of the Pro Football Hall Fame. “FOOTBALL CONVENTION 2013: OK, gang. I’m within a few days of pulling the trigger on a nice little venue in…
My laptop just suffered a hard drive crash. I guess it’s the computer gods exacting vengeance on an IT person such as myself. I’m still in the process of getting the data off my old hard drive (easier said than done). Fortunately, I didn’t have to worry about my APBA…
As some of you know, the APBA Company has recently withdrew official support of the APBA- Between the Lines forum hosted on the Delphi Forums site. The popular forum needed a new moderator. Enter Kevin Cluff. Kevin stepped up to the plate and assumed the responsibilities of maintaining ABTL…
I have a fascination with pitchers who show some consistency with the bat. I don’t mean who get one lucky swing for a homerun. I’m talking about those Carlos Zambranos, Mike Stantons, and Livan Hernandezes who break the mold of the stereotype of a weak hitting pitcher. Steve Dunning was…
The Twin City Thunderchickens played out the balance of our June games for the Illowa APBA League yesterday. Todd Ventresca and his Three Rivers Gamblers were left on the schedule. Todd couldn’t make it back for the convention held in Illinois but thanks to Skype, we were able to get…