I have been playing APBA baseball since 1970, more than forty years, and have never reached the 100 win plateau in any format. I’ve managed the Chicago Champions in the Illowa APBA League since the 2nd season of the league, more than 35 years, and have never gotten 100 wins,…
This isn’t strictly APBA related (unless you are replaying a ‘50s AL season maybe) but a lot of you might find it interesting especially if you are baseball history fanatics. Last night, Orestes ‘Minnie’ Minoso was on the campus of the University of Illinois and I got a chance to…
APBA’s rival tabletop sports gaming company, Strat-O-Matic will be celebrating its 50th birthday this year. Tom Van Riper of Forbes has a nice article on SOM. His first paragraph pretty much sums up why many of us tabletop sports fans play the game. Why do all we sports fans…
Recently, I got into an email discussion with Brian C of the Bridesburg Boys and Girls Baseball Baseball League about replays and such. The topic of canonical standards for replays came up. What is considered a REAL replay? My answer simply was that any replay that the player does that…
The APBA Blog has a Facebook page now. Those of you who use use the social networking website can now join us. There is much potential for this, I suppose but the main advantage of this is that those of you on Facebook will get notifications whenever The APBA Blog…
Well last week, I broke down pitching for the 2010 APBA Baseball Card set and a few days ago I did a similar article on fielding. It is time to look at hitting. I have to admit this was a lot more complicated and even more fun (offense always is). …
A few days ago, I delved into the pitchers of the 2010 APBA baseball season, breaking them down by the numbers. Today for our next installment of “2010 by the numbers”, we’ll switch gears and take a look at fielding. Some surprises maybe only because I haven’t looked at them…
From APBA Baseball’s Facebook page: A shout out to my old buddy Dom who played APBA Nation’s version of Paul Revere. Indeed, confirmed over at the Between the Lines forum, the cards are out and shipping. They are also available for pickup if you are in the area of the…
Let’s give Walt Taylor from OAPBA a hand. He’s halfway through his solitaire 1960’s Project and needs a little help picking out the All-Stars. I’ll let him tell you about it in his own words: Good Evening! I enjoy stopping by your blog to get information and your perspective on…
I just got a chance to look over the card numbers extracted from the 2010 disk. Since I did it last year for the 2009 set, I thought I’d do a series of articles breaking down the “cards” number-wise. Today, I’ll start with the pitchers. As an FYI, these figures…