APBA Blog reader Mike Burger has just gotten his APBA Pro Soccer Board Game. I coaxed him to do a review of the game for this site after he had played a few soccer games and gotten a good feel for the game. Thanks to Mike for giving us his…
Champions IAL Playoffs & Draft Weekend Left Orlando on a big jet airliner at 8:00 AM, flying SWA to Midway, arrived at the Naperville Best Western after a couple of stops at 1:00 PM. Unpacked my APBA stuff & unwound, laid back & relaxed, and waited for my playoff foe…
IAL TRADES MOLLY PUTTS MARAUDERS send SS EVERTH CABRERA to the RISING BAMM BEANO’S in exchange for SS RAFAEL FURCAL. Don’t really like either player. Cabrera is younger and is likely to get older. While Furcal is older and might retire sooner. MARAUDERS 5, BAMM BEANO’S 5 – EVEN MOLLY…
For those interested, I’ve posted the 2011 rookie draft that the Illowa APBA League did last weekend. Here is the first round: Round One Player 1 Bombers Posey, B. 2 Marauders Heyward, J. 3 Gamblers Stanton, M. 4 T-Chicks Strasburg, S. 5 Upperdeckers Walker, N. 6 Highlanders Santana, C.…
…but maybe you’ll find them interesting, anyway. 1. Over at The Baseball Zealot, I interviewed Chicago-based baseball artist Grant Smith. He’s got some great baseball paintings and even sold some of them to Johnny Damon (he writes about it in the interview). If you want to check his work out…
One of the trades I made in my league last week was a first. It was made over Facebook. It’s interesting to list all the different methods and mediums used to facilitate an APBA trade. Here are all the ones, I can boast: Phone The preferred method for years…
Yesterday, I posted some photos of last weekend’s Illowa APBA League postseason play. Today, I continue with photos of last weekend’s draft and beyond. One note before I continue… I had a thought today. If any of you are interested in sharing photos of your league’s convention or get-togethers, feel…
This past weekend, the Illowa APBA League had their World Series and Draft Convention. Always considered the highlight of the year, this weekend was no exception. The guys at the IAL have gotten used to me snapping photos at these weekends. I believe it gives us one more way of…
In the Illowa APBA League, I’ve gone months without making a trade for the upcoming 2011 season. Then within the last 48 hours, I’ve made two deals. It kinda happens that way sometimes. It just snowballs. Trade #1 I trade Casey McGehee and Mike Cameron to the Moline Upperdeckers for…
Not too long ago, I did a loose replay of the 1984 NL playoffs with my buddy Brando. So my curiosity was piqued when I ran across this replay by Jim Dietz of the 1984 NL and AL seasons and postseason over at BoardGameGeek. I was even more interested when…