On Saturday, a total of 34 APBA fans descended onto the Comfort Inn-O’Hare in Des Plaines, Illinois to play APBA, talk baseball and have some fun. Thanks to the tireless efforts of organizer Rob Spatz this tourney could not have happened. APBA fans came as far as Michigan, Iowa and…
Thanks to Kevin Burghardt for submitting this article! It really hit home. -TN So many of us that play this wonderful game called APBA Baseball have stated how it’s changed our lives for the better. I was thinking the other day just how true that is for me personally. As…
It always seems that the strangest cards come from sets during shortened seasons. In this case, this Doug Bair card hails from 1981 which was infamous for its split season due the labor dispute (sorry Reds fans!). Bair’s 1981 card is the ultimate in all-or-nothing. In six plate appearances, he…
When Scott Fennessy rolled a 33 on catcher Russ Martin against me at last weekend’s Illowa APBA League weekend, I cringed. I thought for sure, Russ banged out an rbi double. Fortunately for me, I had a B pitcher going and it was an out. My curiosity was piqued though…
In one of the closest Illowa APBA League All-Star games in history, the City Boys held off the Country Gents in a 6-5 contest. The City Boys had the lead the whole game but the Gents made a comeback scoring a run in the ninth inning bringing the score within…
It’s fun to see a future Hall of Famer’s APBA card before they made it big. Sometimes they start off slow with a poor card and then find their groove. In other cases like this 1953 Ernie Banks card, you get a quick snapshot of what is to come. Banks…
Okay, I grew up with the idea that Don Kessinger was a typical leadoff man. I suppose in the sixties, he sort of was. I’ve gotten past this of course but I’ve never forgotten the Kessinger-Beckert duo that lead off so many Cubs games. Before Don K. got to the…
Here an old one from the archive that Tom Zuppa sent in. It’s Claude Raymond from the 1963 set. From the looks of it, this is from the original set too. In 6 plate appearances, 5’ 10” reliever Raymond (DX*) doubled twice. In addition, he drove in a run and…
The question came up in The APBA Blog’s comment section about how customizable the APBA Baseball Game (aka Baseball for Windows) was. I knew from my experience in Shawn Baier’s Boys of Summer APBA League that it had to have the capability to customize to your liking but I didn’t…
Yesterday, I posted an overall recap of my basic game NL 1966 replay as of June 15. Before I start rolling again, I thought I’d post a few interesting but perhaps irrelevant stats. While some don’t always include the stars of 1966, you might get a feel for 1966 NL…