by Scott Fennessy New York, NY 7/11/1905 The Cubs travel to New York, and begin a critical series against the Giants. This has become a heated rivalry, but the G-Men have become nearly unstoppable, and the Cubs have had a rash of injuries and suddenly their pitching has faltered. When…
This is not your father’s APBA Baseball replay. Indeed, the idea of doing a pre-1900 replay would never have been on my radar 20 years ago. But Rod Caborn (who The APBA Blog did a Fan Profile of a while back) is quite a ways into a 1883 National League…
Following up on my post which featured Geoff Schmitt’s APBA Golf tournament, here are the results of his second tournament. Geoff is using APBA Golf for Windows for these tournaments. According to him, the pace is lot faster with the Windows version than the dice and boards version. I’m not…
This certainly isn’t the worst APBA card in the world. in fact, for a .232 hitter, 1984 Darrell Evans has a pretty decent on-base percentage. But consider the context… In 1983 (the year before this card), Evans hit .277 with 30 homers with a nifty .516 slugging percentage. In 1985…
Lefty Grove deserves a mention in this column and there’s no time like the present. Grove’s stats are amazing enough but what makes them most unbelievable is that he accomplished them in the batters’ heyday of late 20s and early 30s. When teams were scoring well over 5 runs a…
Lesson learned… always keep a neat boxscore because you never know how important the game might be. I played a Skype series against Mike Bunch for our Illowa APBA League. My Twin City Thunderchickens weren’t hitting against Mike’s Green Rock Bombers for the whole series but I certainly wasn’t prepared…
Like clockwork, fellow IAL manager Don Smith sent out a wrap-up of how the early rookie picks are doing in the majors. It’s become a tradition in the IAL for Don to post the results of the first round players but this year, he’s doing the second round as well…
by Scott Fennessy Chicago, IL 7/7/13 The Cubs and Pirates meet this afternoon in Game 2 of this double header. The Cubs have won two of the first three games, including a very tight early game today that cost them Jake Weimer’s services for 3 starts. Deacon Phillippe for the…
Ken Heard posted an excellent list of required reading on his blog, Love, Life and APBA. The impetus for Ken was to help those of us who do replays and find good written resources to motivate us and get us in the right frame of mind for when we roll…
Take a sip of a mint julep and be prepared for a trip down retro-APBA lane. How many of you watched the Kentucky Derby this past weekend? I admit I watched it while visiting my family this past weekend. It’s amazing how much hoopla the sports media can whip up…