The emailed “disk” is making its way into people’s inboxes. By now, we know the official pitching grades and with a little extrapolation, the hitting numbers of the 2009 set. The big story among pitchers is the re-appearance of split grades. And I mean SPLIT grades. Phil Hughes is rated…
In the Illowa APBA League, it’s time for our annual IAL Hall of Fame vote. We started our Hall of Fame back in 1996 when IAL legends Mike Schmidt (career numbers 535 HR, 1468 rbi, 1400 runs) and Steve Carlton (214-148, 3.50 ERA, 2506 K) were obvious charter members. Since…
I’ve been in contact with Pete, the man who bought the 1956 original set of cards on Ebay I wrote about a few days back. We initially got talking because he wanted to clarify my erroneous statement that the set was bought by a Sport Memorabilia shop. My bad! It…
Rod Caborn writes in with a 2009 final season update for the Orlando APBA Association: Platoon wins second straight OAPBA championship in 2009 Joe Passiatore earns seventh league title; Platoon beats Beefers in World Series in five The 2009 OAPBA season featured one of the league’s greatest pennant races…
Advanced Fantasy Baseball has “Ten Fantasy Baseball Trade Secrets”. It was posted last May and admittedly is geared toward fantasy baseball not APBA. However, most of the tips still apply. Like #9: Concern yourself with the end result more than the price. You may think giving up a certain…
Interesting auction on Ebay that just finished (here’s the link for as long as they keep it up). The seller was auctioning off the original 1956 APBA baseball card set. Here the description of the set off the Ebay page: This set has 15 of the original 1956…
Yesterday, when cleaning out my office I found a treasure. After being lost for at least 10 years, I found my George Brett autographed APBA card. And there’s a pretty cool story that goes with it, too. In the early 90’s, after I graduated from college and before I could…
Francis Rose is selling the APBA Journal. Citing lack of time to devote to it, entrepreneur Francis Rose is attempting to unload the periodical dedicated the game of APBA. AJ, which has been around since I was kid, was a great resource for those who played in leagues as well…
Every year at the end of the MLB season and when APBA releases their carded player list, our league gets a pretty good idea how the APBA baseball cards will look like for the following year. Like clockwork, our tireless commissioner, Mike Bunch, releases his predictions for the IAL league…
For those who will be entering draft time sometime soon, here is a list (in pdf form) of the 2009 rookies that our commissioner put together. For the players, it includes playing time including games at secondary positions. For pitchers, it includes playing time as well as W-L record and…