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…
Brian Cavanaugh writes The APBA Blog with an update on a rather unusual and awesome league he has put together. He’s coordinating an APBA league in his local Boys and Girls Club in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Brian talks about his experience this summer: As a long time APBA fan and…
The disk is out! I don’t have it in my hands but I’ve waded through most of posts on APBA- Between The Lines. If you don’t have the disk yet and have that certain need to know, there are plenty of people who could tell you numbers and ratings. If…
Rod Caborn writes to announce the conclusion of the Orlando APBA League season. Here are the details: Joe Passiatore’s Platoon (50-34) rolled over Walt Taylor’s record-setting Whatevers (59-25, new league record for wins in a season) to capture his third straight Orlando APBA Association crown and his eighth in…
Father Gabe Costa from CBS New York (don’t ask me if he’s really a man of the cloth) has a nice, general review of the APBA Baseball game. Father Gabe relives his days as a youngster in the 60s when he and his friends drafted players from the stock teams:…
I just wanted to point out a few links on APBA Between the Lines forum that might be useful for those who interested in predicting the 2010 MLB cards. Check out the one on 2010 SS Fielding Rating Predictions. Of course, not all the analysis in the BTL posts is…
I just came back from a very successful mini-APBA weekend where I went 12-6 against my league’s intra-division rivals including commish Mike Bunch (left). Lately, in the past few years, my team has tended to be a season late bloomer. I’ll be of the playoffs then out of the…
I was reading a post on The Hardball Times which dealt with the issue of the designated hitter and lo and behold, in the comments below it, I saw APBA mentioned: I am 67 years old 60 years a baseball fan not only do I hate the dh,but my…