It’s been a while since I’ve contributed to The APBA Blog. I apologize for my absence. With the resent pandemic, I’ve had significantly more free time for all things APBA, so I figured this was as good a time as any to begin contributing again. After speaking with my brother,…
Q: In BBW, is there any way to preset that automatic games in background mode will either ‘shutdown at the end of the game’ or ‘shutdown at the end of day’? It’s true that once I start the games in background mode, I can go down the menu in League…
Maintain your distance! I don’t want to turn this into a “Covid-19” blog and I promise it won’t (there are a couple articles already on their way) but the virus and our society’s response will definitely impact our enjoyment of the game. For some context, I and most of my…
Chris touches on Play Ratings in Baseball for Windows in his new popular column on The APBA Blog. Q: I’ve played 5 or 6 replays, and I keep running across the same issue. A player with a PR of 850 and SF of 72 usually sees his RUse drop to…
With the outbreak of COVID-19, it really feels like life has thrown us a curveball. With the uncertain future of pro sports including Major League Baseball it doesn’t seem quite fair. I have seen the effects of the response up close as the Big Ten has canceled the rest of…
In the midst of getting ready of the insanely popular Greater Michigan APBA Baseball Tournament, Pastor Rich Zawadzki found the time to send me this week’s Monster Card. Rich writes: How Good was Tony Gwynn? Uhh…REALLY GOOD! Can you name all 12 players to have hit .370 or better from…
Congratulations to Kate Silvis who took the 2013 Pittsburgh Pirates to the Greater Michigan APBA Baseball Tournament and won it all! She defeated Eric Berg’s 2006 Minnesota Twins in a 16-inning 5-1 battle. From all reports, the GMABT was an incredibly fun event but I expected nothing less from Pastor…
Nobody knows Monster Cards like Pastor Rich Zawadzki. He sent me this 1922 Ken Williams card. Williams was one of rare AL sluggers in the 1920s who managed to hit more homers than Babe Ruth (Bob Meusel also accomplished that feat in 1925). With 39 in 1922, he was only…
While the Illowa APBA League was drafting and playing last weekend, the Transcontinental Baseball League were busy building up their teams for the 2020 season. They held their 2020 draft on the same weekend as the IAL. And once again, Vladimir Guerrero Jr. was the top choice. I have mentioned…
This past weekend, the Illowa APBA League crowned the 2019 champion after a hard fought postseason. Rob Moore and his Chicago Highlanders emerged the victor, defeating Thomas Nelshoppen’s Twin City Thunderchickens in a memorable World Series. Think about the importance that baseball historians place on Bill Mazeroski’s game-winning homerun in…