New website for OAPBA
Rod Caborn from the Orlando APBA Association, writes to announce that they have a new web address for their league. . You can access their new web site here. Well done, Rod!
Free ’66 All-Stars download from the Company
CLuke wanted to point out that the APBA Co. was providing the 1966 All-Star team free as a downloadable pdf file. You can get it from APBA’s Download page. Here is the direct link. MVPs in 1966 were Frank Robinson of the Orioles and Roberto Clemente of the Pirates. Sandy…
Smokey Joe’s A&B and the new 1912 season
Has anyone ordered/gotten the 1912 season yet? It’s a previously unreleased set by APBA but we got a sneak peak when they released their World Series set a while back which included the 1912 pennant winners, the Red Sox and Giants teams. That was a while ago but one thing…
Perfect Buehrle Baffles Rays
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…
RIP Gene Carney: author, APBA player
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…
APBA vs Strat-o-Matic: my reasons I stayed
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…
BBW question
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…
Former APBA manager runs marathon in all 50 states
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…
Do real life off-field actions affect who’s on your league team?
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.…
Keeping an eye on Lancaster
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…