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…
This past weekend while I was at the Illowa APBA All-Star get-together, I received a Facebook message from Jerry Conca. I found out Jerry is a friend of Bill Gilliam who is in my Boys of Summer League so I figured he was an ok guy. Jerry and I messaged…
The Game The 2015 Illowa APBA All-Star Game was a hard fought battle this year. The Country Gents came out the victors in the end over the City Boys when the dust settled thanks to a two-run homer by Khris Davis of the Moline Upperdeckers homerun in the top of…
Here’s a Throwback Thursday for you. At the Illowa APBA League All-Star weekend eleven years ago in 2004, Todd Ventresca had a miraculous event that will probably never happen again in regular season play. For his Aurora Gamblers, pitcher Brandon Webb hurled a perfect game against the State Street Sluggers…
Steve Stein’s online tool appropriately named Steve’s APBA Card Computer has gotten a makeover. The new version does not rely on the Java platform. I’ve noticed that it’s been getting a lot of use this summer and my guess is that Steve has decided to cut the ties to Java…
Jim Fraasch sent me this detailed report on the Neil Ess Memorial Twin Cities APBA Baseball Tournament IV that happened this past weekend. It’s chock full of facts, figures, photos and most importantly, memories. -Tom (Left) Eric Berg (1906 Cubs) of Jacksonville, IL, (Right) Rogers Parsons (’64 Cardinals) of Duluth,…
Will happy times repeat for the City Boys in the 2015 All-Star Game This Friday is the annual All-Star weekend for the Illowa APBA League, one of most fun times of the year for the guys second probably to the Draft weekend. On Saturday, The City Boys will attempt to…