My friend Don Smith has been conducting a little Illowa APBA League “spring training” for his Molly Putts Marauders before our regular season starts. I’ve seen some of his writeups on Facebook. Quite enjoyable. Don told me that in his quest in finding teams to play Molly, he ran across…
It is getting close to April 1st and that means Prairieland 2 tourney time! More to the point, in less than two weeks, tourney participants will be selecting their teams and fantasy players in a two-round snake style draft. The draft will begin on February 18 and Eric Berg is…
When Pastor Rich Zawadzki sent me this Zach Britton card for last season and said “Monster card”, I first thought he was referring to Zach’s hitting skills. I’m a little behind the times though. It was in 2011 when Britton was a C starter but had double 1s and a…
I received some good feedback on my video tour of my Excel stats setup of my 1966 National League replay so I thought I’d put together a series of videos on how I got to the point where I’m at now. Here is the first one. The best place to…
No dashes for 1968 Minnesota Twin Cesar Tovar’s APBA card. There is no room with every position listed on his card. All told, Tovar is rated as a 3B-4, OF-2, SS-6, 2B-6, C-5, 1B-2, and a Grade DXW P-1. Whew! While Tovar is quite the versatile player (I count at…
No doubt, Hank Aaron is recognized as one of the all-time greats. Yet, in some ways, he is still underrated. Here is a man who was hitting double-digit homers ten years before I was born. He still managed to have a superstar year as I was entering junior high school. …
The Transcontinental Baseball League is nearing their 2017 draft and by tradition, there is no lack of analysis, water-cooler talk and outright gossip about what teams will take who and when. The managers of the TBL take pride in their league and they go all out in writing up pre-draft…
Chuck Lucas has been seeing the leaderboards I’ve been posting for my 1966 National League replay using the APBA Basic Game and he asked about how I keep my stats. I thought the best way to show him (and everyone else) is to make a video tour of my stats…
Hi everyone, The Prairieland 2 APBA Baseball Tournament which will take place in Champaign, Illinois on April 1st is less than three months away. APBA fans are beginning to sign up but there is plenty of room. This year’s tourney will feature a team and fantasy deadball player “draft” which…
Neil Leininger emailed me to let me know that he and Brian Hamilton are gearing to bring up a new APBA baseball league using the Basic Game. The league is called the Roy Hobbs Baseball Association and currently there’s room for managers!! If you take a look at the proposed…