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…
For the fifth time in a row, the East beat West in the annual Illowa APBA League All Star Game. Unlike last year when the outcome was never in question, the game went down to the wire with the West Division getting the tying run on deck in the…
The Illowa APBA League is having its All-Star weekend starting today. We each got a series or two of regular season games in this evening. If you must know how I did, I’m currently 2-6 for the weekend. I haven’t done my stats yet but Geovany Soto and Ray Durham…
For those interested, I convinced six writers to guest blog for The Baseball Zealot writing an article a day for one week. The topic was predicting the MLB end-of-year awards and postseason predictions. Guest bloggers ranged from our own Teddy Ballgame to Baseball Musings’ David Pinto. Organizing the project was…
For those in Florida, Rod Caborn wanted to pass this info on: The Society for American Baseball Research (SABR) Central Florida Auker-Seminick Chapter will meet on Saturday October 31 at the Southwest Branch (Dr. Phillips) of the Orlando Library system, 7255 Della Drive. Orlando, 10 a.m-2:30 p.m. Presentations…
The New York Times ran a nice piece called The Crack of the Dice on the game of APBA and the recent Convention in Lancaster. John Duke took this year’s tournament using the 1909 Pittsburgh Pirates. It’s his second title in two years. He won in 2007 with the 1927…
Rod Caborn from the Orlando APBA Association, writes to announce that they have a new web address for their league. . You can access their new web site here. Well done, Rod!