Journalist Kerry Patrick of the Parkersburg News and Sentinel did a wrap up of the recent APBA Convention in Lancaster. He’s written about APBA in past columns of his. “No Dice in APBA tourney” details the efforts of his 1956 Cincinnati Redlegs in the 2011 APBA tourney. By the title,…
One of the questions I’ve gotten recently from APBA baseball fans centers around the Coxx Pitching grade system. I’ll be honest, I was pretty unfamiliar with the Coxx System. Never having used it, it was all new to me. Essentially, Coxx uses the Master Game pitching grades and from there…
Long time APBA fan Chuck Foley emailed The APBA Blog and I wanted to share his thoughts. He has a couple of good points worth a look. With his permission, I’m posting his note in entirety. I have read with interest the blogs you are all posting. At the risk…
The APBA Gods must be angry with me. While the the APBA fans are having a grand time in Lancaster at the 2011 Convention, my Twin City Thunderchickens simply had the worst day in its history. Oh I had fun, no doubt. But within six hours, my team managed to…
This weekend is the 2011 APBA Convention in Lancaster, PA. I wish I could go but alas, scheduling and finances didn’t allow it. Have heart though. The APBA Blog has a roving reporter. Brian Cavanaugh (from the Bridesburg Boys and Girls Club Baseball League) will be attending and he has…
APBA CEO John Herson just passed this announcement to me regarding the APBA Game Company’s new release of the 1960 and 1964 baseball season card sets. APBA Baseball Fans, For almost 60 years APBA has been the unchallenged KING of quality sports entertainment products! APBA announces the release of…
I’m glad Rod Caborn sends me email updates on his league, the Orlando APBA Association. It gives me an excuse to check out OAPBA’s fun web site. It’s colorful (literally and figuratively) and reminds me of the old time Sporting News format in its games wrap up. And it warms…
Back in mid-May when Jose Reyes was having a pretty great year so far, I posted an article about what his APBA card might look like with his stats at the time. I used Steve Stein’s APBA Card Computer to get the numbers. Well, Jose Reyes is STILL having…
For those of you on Facebook, this might be of interest. Back in May, Dom Provisiero of the O.Z. League, started a “Roll Call” on the APBA Games Facebook page. Since then over 50 APBA fans have responded. Sometimes they added information such as their hometown, the games they play…
Brian Cavanaugh sends in a draft report for the Bridesburg Boys and Girls Club 2011 Summer League. For those who don’t know the story, Brian does great work with the Philadelphia-based Boys and Girls Club and presents the kids to the joys (and probably frustrations) of APBA Baseball. (You…