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…
I got this question via Facebook today: we are in the midst of our draft and a question arose….a double grade pitcher (A&B)…..how is he played???? A column unless its a re-roll and then read the B column???? This is the second time I’ve seen this question recently. …
with apologies to Lady Gaga. (Mum mum mum mah Mum mum mum mah) I wanna hold my APBA cards like they do in Lancaster please Pick up the dice, hit sixty-six, dude stay with me (I love it) Luck and intuition, make sure Pujols is in there to start And…
No doubt, every APBA League has something that is different or unique about it. Whether it’s how they play the game, its the geographical location or something special about how they take advantage of resources to make their league run smoothly. But several things stand out about the Bump Proffitt…
Sometimes getting lucky dice isn’t always a good thing. Brian Cavanagh will testify to this as his 1994 Montreal Expos fell victim to some good dice rolling by the Atlanta Braves in a key pennant-clinching game. Here’s Brian’s wrap-up: My 1994 Expos were 3 outs away from clinching the…