Last night, I was jonesin’ to roll the bones so I called my buddy Brando. John Brandeberry, who lives cross town in Champaign and is the owner of Rising Bamm Beanos in the Illowa APBA League. He’s always up for some APBA and readily agreed. As it was, the University…
Over the holidays, I received an email from Chris W. who is coming back to the game of APBA. He has a good question regarding some of the relatively new changes in the pitching grading. He writes: I’m returning to APBA for the first time in a LONG time! Since…
The APBA Company had a chance to do good for some boys and girls and really came through. It started back when Brian Cavanaugh submitted a league profile to the APBA Blog for the Bridesburg Boys and Girls Club Baseball League and a few days later I wrote a quick…
Every time I see the web presence of an APBA league, I’m impressed for one reason or another. This time it’s the American Baseball League or ABL, for short. If you see their web site, you can see that they’re going for an MLB.com/Baseball Reference feel they’re going for and…
Hugh Brown writes The APBA Blog about his league simply called the APBA League (or A.P.B.A.L. for short). The A.P.B.A.L. has been around for a good long time, 1960 to be specific. Their website claims (and as far I know, I can’t dispute them) they are “the world’s oldest face-to-face…
Trade season is open in our league now. I just got my first trade offer for the 2011 season. Oh, I’ve gotten inquiries and the “I’ve got this guy, what do need?” talk before. Today though, I got my first firm offer. Two players for two players. To protect the…
Just a few things I want to cover: Plug for APBA Between the Lines Most of you already know about Delphi’s APBA- Between the Lines forum. However, judging from some of the emails I get, there are plenty of APBA fans out there who haven’t heard of it. I’d hazard…
This Washington Post review of David Eisenhower’s new book, Going Home to Glory: A Memoir of Life With Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1961 to 1969, mentions the well-known fact that David was a big APBA Baseball fan in his younger days. Eisenhower, a bookish 62-year-old with a soft, round face…
With stats provided by our commissioner, I just updated the all-time leaderboards for the 35-year old Illowa APBA League. I did career and single season top ten lists for almost all of the hitting and pitching categories. I even threw in an all-time worst page for kicks (that’s a fun…
Yesterday, I posted a league profile of the Bridesburg Boys and Girls Club Baseball League based in Philadelphia. Brian Cavanaugh, who is their contact person, followed up with me and gave me some good details on their season from this year. He writes: “After a couple of days worth of…