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…
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!
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…
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…
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…