I drafted Mark Buehrle in the IAL for my Chicago Champions, not only because he pitches for my real life favorite major league team, the White Sox, but also because he’s good, doesn’t have overpowering stuff, but moves the ball around & uses his cutter to get guys out. He’s…
A bit of sad news… Gene Carney passed away. For those who aren’t familiar with Gene, he was a baseball historian, author and an APBA player. He penned two books, Romancing the Horsehide: Baseball Poems on Players and the Game and Burying the Black Sox: How Baseball’s Cover-Up of the…
Every so often I get an email asking me to compare APBA to Strat-o-Matic, APBA’s major competitor. I’m not about to ask a man to change his religion and in the same vein, I would extend the same courtesy when it comes to his favorite baseball simulation game, as much…
Reader Cam had a question regarding Baseball for Windows. How do I get my XP version ported over to Vista? I’m not a BBW user so I really couldn’t answer with much authority. My thought was that it shouldn’t matter unless BBW wasn’t Vista-compliant. Does anyone else have a good…
I pleased to see this article forwarded to me by our commish. It’s about former Illowa APBA League manager Dennis Jennings. Jennings, after eight years, has ran a marathon in all 50 states. Pretty amazing, I thought. "I don’t even know when I decided I was doing all 50…
APBA to the masses sometimes gets rolled in with the fantasy leagues ala rotisserie leagues. One difference among many, I think, is the connection to the players. The connection (at least for us board game players), comes from handling and viewing the individual player cards. Corny as that may seem.…
Not really APBA related but this article in the LA Times reports that Lancaster, Pa, home of the APBA Co, is probably the closely watched community. The town of 55,000 has some 165 closed-circuit TV cameras monitoring public areas purportedly looking for crime. Some 165 closed-circuit TV cameras soon…
I did a short post on Albert Pujols on The Baseball Zealot on how well he’s done this year in the majors with the bases loaded. It’s nothing short of amazing. For those who haven’t noticed, Albert Pujols has done amazingly well with the bases loaded this year. Here…
There’s a pretty awesome article depicting the fun of APBA (and Strat-O-Matic) baseball in USA Today. They interview a couple members of the Washington APBA Baseball League. …But they’re not at the ballpark. For that matter, they’re not watching on TV, either. It’s 10 a.m. on a Sunday morning…
The Illowa APBA League had last year’s playoffs & World Series, along with the rookie draft, and opening of the new season (30 games per team) in Naperville Illinois in March. Then most teams played an in area series (9 games) in April. This past weekend was the league’s May…