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…
In an earlier post, I had mentioned that Dave Walker was going to take an extensive survey of APBA Leagues, asking a variety of questions about the makeup of the leagues and how they are run. The idea was to create a Directory of APBA Leagues. With Dave’s permission, I’m…
On my White Sox trivia tear-off calendar today was this, “Introduced in 1866, Sebring’s Parlor Base Ball Field was the first tabletop baseball game.” Doing some research I found an article on the Baseball Hall of Fame website, which talked about tabletop baseball games. Visit the website and you can…
After the month of April, our Illowa APBA League is 39 games into our season. As you can see my Twin City Thunderchickens are languishing in last place… We’re 15-24 and don’t see much hope of improving. But the strange thing is this… we lead the lead in…
I’ve run across a new APBA blog out there called APBA Baseball Replays billing itself as “replaying baseball history with the APBA game engine”. I admit my blog is a bit heavy on APBA league stuff and bit light on the topic of APBA replays so I think is awesome.…
Dave Walker emailed me today about a project he’s taken on. He’s put up a survey for those involved in APBA leagues. The best part is that all of us will benefit from its results. Read more to find out more about it: Tom – As a long-time fan…
I get a fair amount of emails because of this blog and I’d have to say he most popular question I get via email is “How do I find someone near me who plays APBA?” or “Is there an APBA League near me?” or something to that effect. Basically, it…
Clayton Klapper writes in about his league based in Arizona called MDN_08. His league is comprised of high school students who play over the summer. I don’t want to sound like an old fogey here but in this day and age of video games (I admit to enjoying them too),…
Let me explain myself before I start a riot here. I’ve been playing APBA baseball since 1970, 40 of my 53 years on earth. I LOVE the game of baseball, enjoy APBA, especially seeing the stats grow over a long season, trading & drafting to build my ballclub, the Chicago…
It’s the 28th today. That’s a magic day in the Illowa APBA League because that’s when our stats our due from each manager. My cross town rival Brando loves doing stats. When we come home from a long tiring weekend where we’ve 30 league games, he tells me he’s going…