This all started when Tom Fulton said “we need a tournament in our area”. Well, now we will. The first Prairieland APBA Baseball Tournament is only five months away! So, get your teams ready! We have booked the venue for the event. We’ll be hosting the tourney in the conference…
Saddle up and ride on over to Jim’s APBA Barn. That would be Jim Fraasch of Twin City APBA Baseball Tournament fame. His new APBA-related web site called Jim’s APBA’s Barn is online so stop on over for a spell. By the way, I found this bit of news out…
Steve’s Card Computer’s renditions of 2015 Zimmerman and Jackson My Twin City Thunderchickens sent out a media release through the Illowa APBA League press wire: In an effort to shore up their depleted outfield, the Twin City Thunderchickens unloaded firstbaseman Ryan Zimmerman to the Green Rock Bombers for Austin Jackson. …
Gene Tenace cards always had a funny quality about them. I tried to capture that in a past Weird Wednesday column with Tenace’s 1978 card but Howie Mooney’s 1981 Tenace card really shows it so much better. Keep in mind, that Tenace’s batting average was only .233 in 1981 for…
Posting this for friend and fellow Boys of Summer manager, Stray Corrado -Tom The Mid-West Baseball League may have an Opening for the 2016 MWBL Season & is always looking for quality managers, who meet the following requirements. Do the following statements describe you? Passionate about the game of baseball….…
Nestled in Tom Fulton’s hand is Bob Forsch’s 1987 card. Forsch played 16 seasons in the National League mostly with the St. Louis Cardinals. He was a solid if not flashy pitcher winning 168 games with a career ERA of 3.76. Apparently, Forsch was also pretty handy with the stick. …
Straight from the APBA company we have the 2015 APBA Baseball carded player list. This is the compiled rosters of all players who will get a APBA card (or a BBW player entry) for the 2015 season. You can download the roster in Excel format here. Each Major League Baseball…
I noticed today that I only have one Ty Cobb Monster Monday column to date. I do have a Terrible Tuesday one in his name (his rookie year) and I don’t like that ratio. So thanks to Pastor Rich “Grandmasta Monster Card” Zawadzki, here is Cobb’s 1916 card. In 1916,…
For many years, Bruce Norlander has been predicting APBA baseball pitching grades. He’s posted his predictions on the APBA Between the Lines forum for years but in the last several seasons, he’s posting it on his own site, ArchRivals Baseball. Bruce has a formula for predicting the grades and in…
A quick note of thanks to John Herson of the APBA Game Company who helped me save my Urbana Locomotives of the Boys of Summer APBA League which uses Baseball for Windows. Early this week, I fired up League Manager to set my lineups and rotations for a BoS road…