In the late 80s, our basic game league had a manager who in addition to keeping the requisite league pitching and hitting stat categories, also kept fielding stats. We all thought he was a little nuts but since he was in charge of putting out the newsletter, we got to…
Hallelujah! Just in time for Christmas, Steve Guthrie has once again come out with APBA cards for the NCAA. Above you see secondbaseman Josh Parr who plays for my beloved Illini. You can go to Steve’s web site to download the cards in excel file format. Once downloaded, you can…
I ran across this charming piece of Illowa APBA League history and couldn’t pass up the chance to share it. It’s an article written in 1979 for our monthly newsletter. Tedd Mallasch wrote it after winning the league championship that year. Charming because it’s a handwritten note, something we rarely…
Our commissioner, Mike Bunch, is the most prolific APBA baseball player I know. Between arbitrating and chaperoning the Illowa APBA League, he finds time to replay full seasons of 1960s baseball… and finishing them, too. It wasn’t too long ago when Mike completed his 1968 season replay. He went right…
Last week, I holed myself up in a coffee house for a few days and reworked our league’s website. Here is the result. It’s been a few years since I’ve paid any serious attention to it so this was definitely overdue. I decided to use WordPress (which is what I…
Even now, I’m surprised by the stuff I find when I search Google. I was searching on the keywords of our league name, “Illowa APBA League”. Apparently, there’s a Internet startup company called List Company that simply lists corporations and companies throughout the world and categorizes them and gives a…
Meet Mr 2009 of APBA Baseball. For each dice roll number on the card, I’ve determined the most common result number using the card data from all the position players in both leagues. Then I made a composite card out of it. This card won’t win any…
The network was down where I was at so it gave me some time to look at the 2009 disk some again. More fun with Excel. Maybe there’s room for one more segment in the 2009 APBA Baseball set: By the Numbers series. We’ll start with a couple of team…
In my last segment of APBA’s 2009 baseball set by the numbers, I’m going to break down at some of the more esoteric (ok, esoteric for us Basic Game guys) ratings used by the computer game. Hopefully, that will give you an idea of the value of a rating in…
Last night, I broke down the position players of new 2009 APBA baseball set number-wise. Tonight, it’s the pitchers’ turn. A little more difficult what without all the fun hit numbers and all but I still did all right. # of pitchers in the 2009 APBA set 442 …