This submission comes from a Facebook post by Wisconsin Tournament organizer Kurt Bergland who is selling some of his APBA collection. The 1987 Milwaukee Brewers are on his selling list and of course, Paul Molitor is a top player on that team. Despite playing just 118 games, “Paulie” led the…
The baseball was hit hard by the death of Willie “Stretch” McCovey this past week. As I have been replaying the 1966 National League these past few years, his death made me pause to think just a little more than most would. While his 1966 season was probably not his…
My friend (and APBA Blog contributor) Scott Fennessy emailed me with a question a couple days ago: Hi Tom, I’m starting to work on the next Windows season 2011. I want to try and use actual lineups for all the CPU teams and use my own for the Cubs. Where…
Update: the Challenge is now closed for further entries. A winner will be announced soon! How many of you remember the APBA Journal’s annual contest in which APBA fans would guess the grades of pitchers from that current year? That was a quite a popular thing and I know a…
The Boston Red Sox fans have a lot to be happy about. Sunday, their team has won the Major League Baseball World Series against a tough Dodgers team. That topped a fantastic season in which they won 108 regular season games over an equally impressive Yankees team. So I’m going…
It’s the second Boston player in two weeks for Monster Monday. This week, I’m taking advantage of APBA’s free use of the World Series teams on APBA GO. Here’s 2018 Red Sox RF Mookie Betts. Mookie led the AL in hitting with a .346 mark and runs scored with 129…
Hi Fans, I’ve taken another look at APBA Baseball’s new online game called APBA GO. Why? The APBA Games Company have announced that the 2018 World Series teams are now available for free for a limited time. “Now Available! The 2018 World Series Teams – You can now play the 2018 World…
This 2017 J.D. Martinez card is a long time coming for the Monster Card Monday column. Back in the day, three ones were reserved for the likes of Babe Ruth and Jimmie Foxx. The 2017 baseball set included four APBA card with three automatic dingers on their card and two…
Hey APBA Fans, In case you missed it on the APBA Games Company website, this schedule announcement was posted recently… 2018 Baseball Season Product schedule November 30, 2018, the 2018 Season file will be available at APBA GO, January 14, 2019, start taking orders and shipping 2018 Baseball Card sets,…
Jim Fraasch sends an update on last weekend’s Neil Ess Memorial Twin Cities APBA Baseball Tournament-X but please check out all the updated details on his awesome site, Jim’s APBA Barn. TCABT-X: October 6th, 2018 Tournament Participants: 30 TCABT-X Champion: Gary Borthwick, 1998 Yankees (this is Gary’s first TCABT Championship)…