Each year, Mike Bunch our esteemed commissioner of the Illowa APBA League, comes out with his annual card predictions for the players on our teams. Mike’s pretty accurate I have to admit, rivaling Bruce Norlander from the APBA Between the Lines forum. It does seem that they have different formulas…
by Craig Small I received a comment on my most recent post from a new player with a question about the game. It brought me back to when I started playing APBA Golf and was wishing that I could have a more experienced player to walk me through the game.…
It seems every day, I’m learning something new about APBA- and a lot of times it’s from questions I receive from readers. Today was no exception. Fred F. wrote me with a simple question about identifying APBA Football sets: I have a set of APBA football cards but cannot remember…
Back to Monster “Cards” but not necessarily Monster “Players”. Dave Tomlin was a journeyman reliever in the National League in the 70s and 80s who exhibited decent control with a respectable 3.82 ERA for his career. In 1979, he even had a pretty good APBA hitting card. That year when…
I did a slight double take the other day when my daily kilg.us email with the stats of my team’s ballplayers came. All goose eggs for every player. Then two seconds later, I realized it was the day after the season ended. I then thought that there was no time…
Rivaling our rookie draft, the Illowa APBA League All-Star Game has to be the most exciting time of the year for our league. I think there’s a simple explanation for this… those are the two times in our season that all ten of our managers are at the same table…
There’s no doubt, Stray Corrado has done the impossible. He’s improved on perfection. The much heralded update to his Mid-West Baseball League’s website has been unveiled and indeed, it is a site to behold. When Stray told me he was going to redesign the site, I told him it would…
by Craig Small Pairing 5: Tiger Woods and Ken Venturi The putting was atrocious in this pairing which only makes Woods’ final score all the more incredible. Woods missed putts from 11, 4, 4, 7, 6, 8, and 8 feet and still, incredibly, shot a 68. His iron play was…
What’s this, a football Monster Card?? It’s been a while I’ve played an APBA Football game. When I was really into it though, guess who was the premiere running back of the era? That’s right, Walter Payton. That’s his 1977 APBA card you see above. When I was a kid,…
