I got a very excited Facebook message from Brian Cavanaugh who works with the Bridesburg Boys and Girls Club in the Philadelphia area. “I came home from work today and sitting in my door was a package from APBA. I haven’t ordered anything since last summer so I knew exactly…
I just got an email from Mel M (the one and same who suggested the latest Monster Card Monday). He tells us about a highlight during a ‘72 ‘replay’ he did. Replay is in quotes because it is in reality, not technically a replay. Mel explains: “Apba is selling the…
Today’s Monster Card comes to us from Mel M who suggested a few players. No doubt, we’ll be seeing some of them on future Mondays. Thanks, Mel!! I think Terry Forster of 1972 ranks up there among the upper echelons of APBA Monster Cards. While he certainly wasn’t a full…
I’ve finished totaling Twin City Thunderchicken team stats for the first 24 games of the Illowa APBA League 2012 season. Now, my outfielder Tyler Colvin is a team player and helps the other guys in the clubhouse and occasionally makes a good play in centerfield. At the plate though, he’s…
I’m I Cub fan but I admit it, I have a picture of Albert Pujols on my office wall. But there’s a story behind it… hear me out. It all goes back to APBA (don’t all good stories?). In the Illowa APBA League, we were looking forward to a fantastic…
For those looking for an updated “Pitcher’s Hitting Card”, this is what our league is using. It’s not much different than last year’s but we do respect APBA placement of the 12 so we did a switcheroo with the 26 and the 61. This certainly isn’t meant to be an…
I’m almost done with the survey results of the Great APBA Fan Survey. I have one more set of questions to publish. There were a few questions like this one though that aren’t so easily graphed. So I’m just publishing the answers as is. Here was the full question: If…
Just two replay events that readers sent in to me that were worthy of noting… Jim Shaw simply wrote: After 40 years of apba finally had a no hitter. Pedro Martinez! When it’s your first APBA no-hitter in 40 years, it’s not just a statistical highlight but a personal accomplishment. …
There’s nothing like getting involved in the internal workings of the another league, right? For years, Tedd Mallasch has posted his Illowa APBA League Draft and Trade Review (first within the league and once I had The APBA Blog, he would post it here). And for all those years, there…
Dick Moore, famous for his DVAL modified basic game boards, writes in to tell us about the DVAL APBA League. Here’s a quick summary: League Name DVAL Contact Person Dick Moore Sport Baseball # of teams 12 Year of inception 1984 Basic/Master/Computer/ Combination Basic Game Out of the box or…