Seamheads.com has a book review of "The Eastern Colored League" by David Lawrence and Dom Denaro. I haven’t read the book but it has an APBA twist to it. The monograph project started with the authors wanting to improve upon the APBA set of 20 Greatest Negro League Teams…
Steve Stein and Walter Hunt both wrote in to tell us about their league, the Transcontinental Baseball League. True to its name, the 24-team league spans both the USA and Canada. One thing that struck out about this league was its yearly publication. It’s very professionally done and slick! League…
Thanks again to our fantastic commish at the IAL, we have the MLB stats in Excel format (zipped). The spreadsheet includes: pretty much all hitting and pitching stats games played at position pitchers’ hitting a plus for APBA fans, certain offensive stats/36 PA so you can approximate hitter’s APBA cards.…
I’ve written about this before on The Baseball Zealot but the idea of using video Skype is catching on in the Illowa APBA League. At least among some of us. Don’t get me wrong. The IAL prides itself for being a face-to-face league. Considering we have managers that live hours…
Recently the APBA Game Company released their list of carded players for their 2008 baseball season. Listed under Kansas City is “Joey G]” who is most certainly Joey Gathright. If you want an Excel version of the list, you can download it here (zipped). Thanks to Mike Bunch, our hard…
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Hello APBA fans, The authors of The APBA Blog (all who are long time fans of the great game of APBA) are excited to bring you this new forum to you! We have a lot of plans for the site. Our blog would like to hit as many topics of…