Don Smith about to announce his draft choice Pitchers Jeremy Hellickson and Michael Pineda were the top two picks in the Illowa APBA League draft held last weekend in Downers Grove, Illinois. Forty-three rookies were chosen in six rounds and two players were kept on the roster uncarded (Stephen Strasburg…
This is third post of my series revealing the results of the Great APBA Fan Survey. In the first post, I looked at general demographics and in the second, I focused on what games we play. Today, it’s all about “how” we play the game of APBA. In general,…
Congrats to Commish Mike Bunch and his Green Rock Bombers, the newest Illowa APBA League champion! It was an interesting and exciting postseason for the IAL. The home crowd was not happy. In all ten games of the playoffs, the visiting team won. The visitor winning streak continued for three…
Just got into town for the Illowa APBA League draft weekend. Party indeed.
Yesterday, I started off by getting a sense of who APBA players were from a demographic standpoint. Today, I’m focusing on what games we play. I’m actually breaking up the the “Playing the Game” survey section into a couple articles (I’ll post the rest of the results of that section…
I’m finally ready to start revealing the data from the Great ABPA Fan Survey! We had 400 respondents. I’m quite pleased with the response. First, a couple things. Why have multiple choice/yes no questions? Those questions were easily quantifiable and analyzed and easier to graph. I didn’t want to have…
As I promised, I closed the survey at 5pm CT today. Submissions were slowing down considerably anyway. I’m quite pleased with the initial results. I had about 400 respondents. Give me a day or two to look over the results and formulate a plan to disseminate the info. More than…
I’ve had the Great APBA Fan Survey up for over a week now. I’ve gotten a great response to it and now it’s (almost) time to deactivate it and start parsing through the results. I’m going to leave it up for one more day. If you haven’t filled it out…
Thanks go to reader Tom Zuppa for suggesting this week’s MCM, Cristobal Torriente. His card APBA card was published as part of the Negro League Set in 1994. Generally, not a lot is known about Negro League statistics though recently, Baseball Reference published what IS known in their new Negro…
I’m kind of amazed by the response I’m getting from everyone to the survey. In three or four days, over 300 people have filled it out. And so far, the pace has only just now started to slow down just a little (I know this because I’m having the system…