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…
The Illowa APBA League is having its All-Star weekend starting today. We each got a series or two of regular season games in this evening. If you must know how I did, I’m currently 2-6 for the weekend. I haven’t done my stats yet but Geovany Soto and Ray Durham…
For those interested, I convinced six writers to guest blog for The Baseball Zealot writing an article a day for one week. The topic was predicting the MLB end-of-year awards and postseason predictions. Guest bloggers ranged from our own Teddy Ballgame to Baseball Musings’ David Pinto. Organizing the project was…
For those in Florida, Rod Caborn wanted to pass this info on: The Society for American Baseball Research (SABR) Central Florida Auker-Seminick Chapter will meet on Saturday October 31 at the Southwest Branch (Dr. Phillips) of the Orlando Library system, 7255 Della Drive. Orlando, 10 a.m-2:30 p.m. Presentations…
SLUGGERS (KERNELS) OUT HOMER CHAMPS 18-7 I should’ve let Gracey our dog take a nip out of Keith when he showed up at my house to play shum APBA after traveling over 2 1/2 hours through rush hour traffic, if I’d only known…
Here are the All Time Home Run hitters in the Illowa APBA League as reported by our league historian. The IAL has been around since the mid-70s. Player * active Home Runs Barry Bonds 655 Mark McGwire 591 Rafael Palmeiro 573 Ken Griffey. Jr.* 571 Mike Schmidt 535 Manny…
WHEN YER HOT, YER HOT & WHEN YER NOT, YER NOT APBA is a simple game, it’s a children’s dice game, to recreate the feel of a baseball game. If you roll good dice & the other guy doesn’t, you win, even if the other guy has the ’27 Yankees…
The New York Times ran a nice piece called The Crack of the Dice on the game of APBA and the recent Convention in Lancaster. John Duke took this year’s tournament using the 1909 Pittsburgh Pirates. It’s his second title in two years. He won in 2007 with the 1927…