Update: voting in the 2020 Pitching Grade Challenge has now concluded. Stay tuned for results!! Hey APBA Fans, The 2020 MLB regular season is over. And what a season it was! The APBA Blog is excited to announce the 2020 APBA Blog Pitching Grade Challenge! This will be the third…
Reader Don George continues his single season replay fun. This time, he skippered the 1954 New York Giants against the rest of the National League. Mays didn’t disappoint. He hit .356, eleven points above his actual average and bullseyed his 41 actual homeruns for the season (see Willie’s card featured…
Reader Neal writes: Can you tell me the first year APBA Baseball went to 2 column player cards and did all cards have 2 columns that first year or did some still have just one? Thx! Great question! In their first eight years of APBA Baseball, the card makers were…
I’m at the risk of making Monster Monday an “RIP” column. That said, I can’t ignore the loss of Hall of Fame second basemen Joe Morgan. He was someone I looked forward to seeing as a friendly in the All-Star Game but at no other time. Morgan was truly a…
No doubt, Hall of Fame pitcher Bob Gibson was one of a kind. He was the dominating pitcher no batter wanted to face. We lost Gibby to pancreatic cancer on Friday only days after another Cardinal fan favorite, Lou Brock passed away. In the year 1968, Gibson had the year…
Scott Fennessy had a great idea for a simple replay. Here’s his recap: I have been reading about other managers taking time for little side projects. Since I am currently ahead of schedule on my 1906 replay I decided to do something I have always wanted to try, but just…
RIP Lou Brock who passed away this week. I have always been a Cubs fan but had deep respect for the speedy Cardinals’ leftfielder. Each year, I remember him as a welcome addition to the National League All-Star team. For today’s Monster Card Monday, I asked Illowa League commissioner Mike…
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…