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…
Note: I’ve heard a lot of talk lately about Ballstat/Ballscore statkeeping software. So much so that I asked Jeff Papas to do a review of the software for The APBA Blog. He graciously agreed. -Tom There’s been a good bit of talk on this blog recently about statistics and how…
I just spent a few minutes clicking away at the new APBA Co. website. I think it still needs work but I think the basic structure is there for APBA to include content now. At least, now the contact information is correct and references to the old office are gone. …
Francis Rose announced that the rules for the 2012 Convention Tournament have now been posted. You can see them at the Convention website. Nothing too dramatically different. First of all, you’re not limited as far as team selection: “Any STOCK team from a complete season card set issued by APBA…
Thanks to reader Jeff Papas for this week’s Monster Card. And what a Monster card it is! You like 2s?? 1916 Limb McKenry’s got 2s for you. All the way out to 61. Tm Lg G PA AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI SB BB SO BA OBP…
The Great APBA Fan Survey is finally online! There are 42 questions but most of them are multiple choice or yes/no with a few short answer mixed in. I just took the survey myself and it only took me about 5-10 minutes. I posted about this a week or so…
I’ve changed the way that my name appears on The APBA Blog. It will no longer show up as The Baseball Zealot. Instead you’ll see my full name, Thomas Nelshoppen. I’m letting everyone know just so you know it’s the same person. The nom de plume “The Baseball Zealot” came…
There was a thread on our league’s internal mailing list that got me thinking about this. Something about Miguel Cabrera’s current glovework at third base during spring training. That got us on who in the history of APBA has gotten the dreaded 3B-2 rating. Our list is incomplete. Hell, it…