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…
The APBA Game Co has just realeased the list of carded players for the 2009 baseball set. Here is the link to the list (in pdf form). I’m just getting a chance to look at it for the first time right now. I’ll probably have some comments on it later.
I want to run an idea past everyone and see if there is any interest in it. 1. Would you find it helpful/useful/interesting to have an online database or spreadsheet that had the pitchers’ APBA grades and ratings for every season that the company issued? Would you use such…
Steve Stein lets us know that he’s updated the historical archive of the Transcontinental Baseball League. Any league that’s been around long enough to say they have a “history” should pat themselves on the back. Those who had the forethought to keep their history documented and intact…