The Transcontinental Baseball League is one of the most well-documented APBA baseball leagues in existence. With a professional writer like Walter Hunt on the roster, it’s no surprise they put out such good press releases like the newly released 2016 TBL Annual. The 2016 TBL Annual is 146 pages long…
From Eddie Wilbanks comes Babe Ruth’s 1926 APBA card. Babe has been featured on Monday probably more than anyone (1916, 1920, 1921, 1924, 1927, 1930) but his ‘26 card is more than worthy. In 1926, Ruth got back on track after his reputed “Bellyache heard round the world”. His homers…
The most important statistic you can keep in your replay is the daily standings. Maintaining daily standings sound easy. It is surprising, however, how easily one can transpose a number or flip-flop a win or a loss. Once an error occurs, it will continue replicate itself in your daily standings…
Some APBA games just go your way. I was playing an Illowa APBA League series with my Pittsburgh pal Todd Ventresca and his Three Rivers Gamblers tonight. He won the first three and I won the next. What happened in the next game is one for the record books. It…
The 2016 Prairieland APBA Baseball Tournament is now in the books. We had a total of fifteen participants that traveled from as far away as Michigan and Nebraska to Urbana, Illinois to play APBA baseball. At the Hampton Inn, we broke into two divisions and played our opponents (one game…
One week from today, sixteen APBA fans, boards and dice in hand, will converge on the college town of Urbana, Illinois to participate in the first Prairieland APBA Baseball Tournament or as it is now simply called “The Prairieland”. That’s right, sixteen. With one more late addition, we now have…
It’s definitely APBA tournament season. While people are still talking about Pastor Rich Zawadzki’s Greater Michigan APBA Baseball Tournament which took place in March, the big talk now is last weekend’s Neil Ess Memorial Twin Cities APBA Baseball Tournament-V in Minnesota. Not only that, in less than two weeks, the…
Replays require a systematic approach to compiling information. Think about how much information you will be recording: Box scores for as many games are you are playing in your replay Daily standings for your replay Batting and pitching records for several hundred individual players Team batting and pitching records…
Nothing says “Monster” like “Joltin’ Joe” DiMaggio. Pastor Rich Zawadzki passed on this 1939 APBA card which verifies this fact. It was Joe D’s fourth year in the majors and he had already made his mark with the Yankees. In his first three years, he batted over .300 each year. …
Chris S. has a few questions about APBA Golf. Rather than go off of memory and slice, I thought I’d post them here and see if the APBA Golf aficionados might chime in. Even better, I’m going to post this article to Facebook’s APBA Golf Country Club page and see…