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!
CLuke wanted to point out that the APBA Co. was providing the 1966 All-Star team free as a downloadable pdf file. You can get it from APBA’s Download page. Here is the direct link. MVPs in 1966 were Frank Robinson of the Orioles and Roberto Clemente of the Pirates. Sandy…
Has anyone ordered/gotten the 1912 season yet? It’s a previously unreleased set by APBA but we got a sneak peak when they released their World Series set a while back which included the 1912 pennant winners, the Red Sox and Giants teams. That was a while ago but one thing…
A bit of sad news… Gene Carney passed away. For those who aren’t familiar with Gene, he was a baseball historian, author and an APBA player. He penned two books, Romancing the Horsehide: Baseball Poems on Players and the Game and Burying the Black Sox: How Baseball’s Cover-Up of the…
Every so often I get an email asking me to compare APBA to Strat-o-Matic, APBA’s major competitor. I’m not about to ask a man to change his religion and in the same vein, I would extend the same courtesy when it comes to his favorite baseball simulation game, as much…
Reader Cam had a question regarding Baseball for Windows. How do I get my XP version ported over to Vista? I’m not a BBW user so I really couldn’t answer with much authority. My thought was that it shouldn’t matter unless BBW wasn’t Vista-compliant. Does anyone else have a good…
I pleased to see this article forwarded to me by our commish. It’s about former Illowa APBA League manager Dennis Jennings. Jennings, after eight years, has ran a marathon in all 50 states. Pretty amazing, I thought. "I don’t even know when I decided I was doing all 50…
APBA to the masses sometimes gets rolled in with the fantasy leagues ala rotisserie leagues. One difference among many, I think, is the connection to the players. The connection (at least for us board game players), comes from handling and viewing the individual player cards. Corny as that may seem.…
Not really APBA related but this article in the LA Times reports that Lancaster, Pa, home of the APBA Co, is probably the closely watched community. The town of 55,000 has some 165 closed-circuit TV cameras monitoring public areas purportedly looking for crime. Some 165 closed-circuit TV cameras soon…