The APBA Blog reached a milestone a couple days ago. We passed 100,000 unique visits to the website since I started keeping track shortly after bringing up the blog in 2008. In the grand scheme of things, that may not be a huge number but I’m proud of it especially…
John McGraw is no doubt known for being one the best managers in baseball history. He ranks second behind Connie Mack in career wins with 2763 and boasted a .586 winning percentage. He was a fiery competitor and was known to do what it took to win games. Rk Mgr…
A few months back, I solicited the advice of APBA fans on web-based MLB player stats tracker. More than a few responded with kilg.us which I tried and quite liked. At the time, I just wanted to track the players on my APBA league team so I could see their…
There’s a new announcement on the APBA Company website regarding the roster expansion of baseball rosters: With the recent announcement about the basic baseball card set count being increased from 20-30 for 2012, we were asked if there would be a list designating the first 20 selections for each major…
Sometimes you can just HEAR your pitcher’s grade go down.
Craig Small who is gearing up for his next All-Time Greats APBA Golf Tournament just sent me this. Just for fun I decided to contact Jack Nicklaus, Nick Faldo, Tom Watson, and Gary Player via their websites and see who they would want as the last four in the tournament.…
Don’t look at the hitting numbers this week; it’s the pitcher’s grade I’m focusing on this time. With Dennis Eckersley’s groundbreaking 1990 performance, he not only got the rare A&B pitching grade from APBA but also the ZZ control rating. Eck gave up only five earned runs in 73 1/3…
Continuing our recent flurry of replay re-caps, Craig Small wrote me an sent in a summary of his All-Time Greats APBA Golf Tournament. He’s also going to expand on that and is asking for input from readers. -Tom by Craig Small Hello, everyone. I just wrapped up my inaugural All-Time…
Yesterday I posted some stats from Mike Bunch’s 1962 full season replay. Mike wrote back with a follow-up including some background on his 1960s project and what happened in the ensuing World Series between the Yankees and the Giants. Here is his summary. -Tom by Mike Bunch This is my…
It’s looking like Replay Week at The APBA Blog. First we had a great writeup from Scott Fennessy on his 1901 APBA replay (plus a World Series followup). Now we’re turning the clocks ahead 61 years and taking a look at 1962. Mike Bunch, our commissioner of the Illowa APBA…