Ninety-six games into the season, it’s almost All Star break in the Illowa APBA League and well, it ain’t 2019 anymore for the Twin City Thunderchickens. I played the last summer series in person against Marcus Bunch and his Moline Upperdeckers. I was able to physically transfer the 2019 Manager…
To be sure, attendance was low in these COVID-19 days but the Twin Cities APBA Baseball Tournament went on as planned… sort of. The normally April tournament was delayed a few months. Masked and mostly socially-distant, there were 13 entrants on August 8th, 2020 and it was held at the…
This post is may not seem APBA-related but for me, it is. It’s geared for APBA players who like me, store APBA files on their computer. Examples of these can be Excel stat files, backups of APBA BBW files, or for that matter any type of documentation of replays. This…
The Illowa APBA League is over half done with its 2020 season now. To say the least, it’s been an unconventional year. And as far as my Twin City Thunderchickens, it’s a slightly disappointing campaign. We were one inning away from winning the 2019 IAL World Series. In 2020, we’re…
“He doesn’t just hit pitchers. He takes away their dignity” -Don Sutton on Stargell Rich Zawadski kindly sent in 1962 Willie Mays this week for Monster Monday but alas, I featured ’62 Mays six years ago. Thanks anyway, Rich! This week, I’m posting a slow OF-1. Yikes. But you can…
Don George is back and has news about his newly-finished 1974 Cincinnati Reds replay. Batting averages were down compared to real life but Joe Morgan fueled a 102-61 for the Reds. Don writes: The Cincinnati Reds cruised to 102 wins in the replay. The Reds exactly matched their actual wins…
I had a Monster Card all set for today. Feedback on my John Montefusco post tells me that some APBA Blog readers want true baseball stars not the lucky ones. Too bad. My choice had tons of sixes on his card. Feedback is a gift and I do appreciate hearing…
Chase emailed me with a good question… I do have a question (it’s been a number of years since I last ordered a season) … Maddux has some sort of rating “(30)”. I see others with “26”, “28”. These are not master game pitchers ratings. What are these ratings. I’ve…
Don George wrote me this past week and submits this Monday’s Monster Card: As mentioned, I’ve been rolling through a 1974 Cincinnati Reds replay. My 1974 set does not include the newly reprinted full set of 861 players. Whenever I need a player not in my set, I use data…
In the first time in recent memory, there will not be Illowa APBA League Summer weekend. While there have been times that individuals (including myself) have missed any of IAL’s three annual weekends, this is the first time I can remember that we won’t be getting together as a group.…