Just try to tell me that the person who built these ice fishing houses (on Medicine Lake , MN) doesn’t play APBA. If not, it’s quite a coincidence. Then again, if he were an APBA fan, I suppose he would have made them all sixes. You can read about the…
The date was December 9, 2007- 13 months ago the last time the 1959 Phillies won a ball game in my 1959 replay. The date in the replay was 5/24/59 and after the Braves scored 1 run in the 11 th inning, Wally Post singling home Ed Bouchee to give…
The correct Willie Bloomquist card With every APBA card set, us APBA fans find anomalies and strangeness and wonder, “Will APBA correct this on their error list?”. So far with the 2008 baseball card set, APBA hasn’t corrected any cards with the exception of one… Seattle Mariner Willie…
Ok, here’s a league with a grade A website. The Mid-West Baseball League, mostly based out of the US Midwest, has one of the most complete and flashiest web sites I’ve seen for an APBA league. The MWBL league database goes back to 1997. They’ve documented their stats, awards, league…
Tim from Chicago sent me an email today saying he’s going to be in a tournament using seasons from 1975-2008. Long story short, he’d like to know if there is a database or listing of grade A pitchers by year. I’m pretty sure the Ed Zack book documents this but…
Here’s something to get you thinking. Name the player and year this card belongs to. I’ve blanked out the name, birth date and birthplace. I’ll give you no hints yet other than that this player is a starter and you have most likely know who he his. No doubt, seasoned…
Opening Day won’t be here for another three months but since the 2008 cards and disks are out, APBA league play and replays can now commence. In that spirit, here are links to some past (dare I call them historical?) articles on the game of APBA in the mainstream press. …
This was the best day ever!!! “I GOT THE NEW CARDS!”, used to generate excitement. NOTE: I’ve included utility man Chris Burke’s card as proof, nobody, to my knowledge, has posted his, who cares, card. I remember getting together with friends, for an extended lunch at a local restaurant, to…
For any NL-rule APBA leagues out there, yum! If you can avoid those five 24s on this card, he’s got quite a tasty card. It’s not a fluke either. Zambrano won the NL Silver Slugger award for a reason. He led all ML pitchers in pretty much every offensive stat…
O.Z. League manager Dom Provisiero and I have been in contact the past few weeks on the issue of keeping historical stats and other relevant for leagues. This has been an interest of mine for a while so I thought I’d share my thoughts. Accumulating the Data Documenting your…