The rise and fall of J.R. Richard is one of baseball’s greatest tragedies. From his humble beginnings as a high school phenom to his final games in the 1980 season, Richard was always entertaining. James Rodney Richard was a legendary scholastic athlete in Louisiana. In his high school baseball career, he…
If you missed it, here is the 1961 AL summary and here is the 1961 NL summary. On to the postseason! Game 1 Reds 4 Yankees 1 This was a pretty solid pitching duel between Jim O’Toole and Whitey Ford. Both teams got off to good starts, and after one…
Update: the Challenge is now closed for further entries. A winner will be announced soon! How many of you remember the APBA Journal’s annual contest in which APBA fans would guess the grades of pitchers from that current year? That was a quite a popular thing and I know a…
The Boston Red Sox fans have a lot to be happy about. Sunday, their team has won the Major League Baseball World Series against a tough Dodgers team. That topped a fantastic season in which they won 108 regular season games over an equally impressive Yankees team. So I’m going…
It’s the second Boston player in two weeks for Monster Monday. This week, I’m taking advantage of APBA’s free use of the World Series teams on APBA GO. Here’s 2018 Red Sox RF Mookie Betts. Mookie led the AL in hitting with a .346 mark and runs scored with 129…
Having provided the settings, I used on the AL recap I am going to go right to the details on this. Only pausing to say that I let the computer handle almost all the other teams except for the Cubs. Final National League Standings W L Pct. Reds 85 55…
GF Korreck is hosting the inaugural Furniture City APBA Tournament this coming Saturday, November 3, in Grand Rapids, Michigan. This baseball event will be held at Legends Sports & Games. I’m very excited to be participating in this tournament. Major League teams from 1920-1972 will be used for this post-deadball/pre-designated…
Thurman Munson was a 1970s version of Buster Posey. When looking at their raw statistics, you might disagree. However, when you take into consideration that the 1970s were a more challenging offensive era, you might side with my claim. Both players were Rookies of the Year and MVP award…
Hi Fans, I’ve taken another look at APBA Baseball’s new online game called APBA GO. Why? The APBA Games Company have announced that the 2018 World Series teams are now available for free for a limited time. “Now Available! The 2018 World Series Teams – You can now play the 2018 World…
Continuing to play seasons has become a bit harder with being involved with a league, so I am breaking down and do another on Windows as it tends to go faster and the stats compiled for you. In this case it’s 1961, the second of the three free seasons I…