I have been playing APBA baseball since 1970, players cards were based on the 1969 baseball season, but before I ever picked up a pair of APBA dice, I was rolling three dice, playing Strat-O-Matic. I was first introduced to dice baseball by my cousins, who lived in Johnsburg, Illinois. …
I’m already tossing & turning about the upcoming IAL Rookie Draft, which isn’t until March, 2010. The upcoming crop of rookies seem to be a very good one, with five B starters, a A&C* relief pitcher, a star catcher, thirdbaseman, & shortstop available, along with four fulltime outfielders (one may…
Every year at the end of the MLB season and when APBA releases their carded player list, our league gets a pretty good idea how the APBA baseball cards will look like for the following year. Like clockwork, our tireless commissioner, Mike Bunch, releases his predictions for the IAL league…
October baseball, ya gotta love it! MLB is down to four teams standing, two from LA, one from NY, and then there’s the defending champion team from Philadelphia. There is a big contrast played between games on the east coast and those played in sunny California. The Angels have had…
For those who will be entering draft time sometime soon, here is a list (in pdf form) of the 2009 rookies that our commissioner put together. For the players, it includes playing time including games at secondary positions. For pitchers, it includes playing time as well as W-L record and…
The APBA Game Co has just realeased the list of carded players for the 2009 baseball set. Here is the link to the list (in pdf form). I’m just getting a chance to look at it for the first time right now. I’ll probably have some comments on it later.
I want to run an idea past everyone and see if there is any interest in it. 1. Would you find it helpful/useful/interesting to have an online database or spreadsheet that had the pitchers’ APBA grades and ratings for every season that the company issued? Would you use such…
Steve Stein lets us know that he’s updated the historical archive of the Transcontinental Baseball League. Any league that’s been around long enough to say they have a “history” should pat themselves on the back. Those who had the forethought to keep their history documented and intact…
Got to Naperville this past Friday evening for the Illowa APBA League’s All Star weekend. Each team plays each out of town opponent six times for a total of 30 games. Heading into the weekend my Chicago Champions were in first place, two games up on the 2nd place Rising…
For the fifth time in a row, the East beat West in the annual Illowa APBA League All Star Game. Unlike last year when the outcome was never in question, the game went down to the wire with the West Division getting the tying run on deck in the…