I’m hearing this second hand but news of the 2020 NAPBA rookie draft reached my phone this morning. Rumor has it that the top five picks of the Minneapolis-based NAPBA League draft went as follows: Fernando Tatis Jr. Pete Alonso Yordan Alvarez Vladimir Guerrero Jr. Chris Paddack This is relevant…
Chris Williams shares what information he’s collected about APBA with TAB readers! Q. Certain Board sets contain a Master Game Pitching Grade Conversion Chart. However, they’re based on the old pitching conversion scheme, i.e., 1-5 = D, instead of 1-4 = D. How do you use this and other pitching…
I received some pointed feedback about my choice of 2019 Javier Baez as last week’s Monster Card. The comments were fair and principled. Daniel Diehm said: I‘m glad the trade is working out for you! And nothing against Mr. Baez, but this is in no way a “monster card”. A…
A quick BBW tip from new columnist Chris Williams… Q: Suppose I want to create a league that only includes 150 of the players on the 1908 data disk. I could create a new organization in Advanced Draft and copy the 150 players one by one to it. However, you…
News rang out on Facebook last week that my Thunderchickens made a blockbuster deal in the Illowa APBA League. We made a mutually beneficial deal which sent former Thunderchickens’ first pick Stephen Strasburg (a BXYZ pitcher) to Marcus Bunch’s Moline Upperdeckers for shortstop Javier Baez. I needed a shortstop, that…
Prairieland is five years old! APBA philosopher Eric Berg is taking the reins as organizer and here are the details… Location: Ramada Inn Springfield, Illinois Date: March 28th 9am Cost: $20.00 Theme: Illinois pride! Here’s a rundown of theme: Two round draft. Round one: select a player that was born…
Chris Williams contacted me a few weeks back asking if he could post some information on The APBA Blog. He has composed and collected helpful info mostly related to APBA Baseball for Windows (BBW). Some are in-depth articles and others are tips and techniques which may come in handy. This…
So what happened with the Illowa APBA League playoff race? The last time I wrote about it was when my Thunderchickens finished the season against Don Smith and ended up the year with a 86-76 record. I needed to hold on to the last playoff spot, fourth place. Well, I…
This comes from Rod Caborn who says: I’ve never been one to submit one game in the midst of a replay (there are 616 of ‘em in an eight-team season replay), but this one really stands out. In 50+ years of playing APBA, I’ve never had one go this long.…
To celebrate the announcement of the pending induction of Larry Walker to the Baseball Hall of Fame, Pastor Rich Zawadzki sent me this 1999 APBA card of the Colorado Rockies slugger. Canadian Walker was humble till the end. Fortunately for him, he was wrong, too. Walker won the trifecta in…