In my last segment of APBA’s 2009 baseball set by the numbers, I’m going to break down at some of the more esoteric (ok, esoteric for us Basic Game guys) ratings used by the computer game. Hopefully, that will give you an idea of the value of a rating in…
Last night, I broke down the position players of new 2009 APBA baseball set number-wise. Tonight, it’s the pitchers’ turn. A little more difficult what without all the fun hit numbers and all but I still did all right. # of pitchers in the 2009 APBA set 442 …
I’m getting a good look at the numbers for the 2009 APBA Baseball disk file today. I thought I’d play around a bit and break it down number-wise. After some sorting and filtering, here is the 2009 set by the numbers. Today, I’m strictly looking at the position players. Maybe…
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…