The baseball was hit hard by the death of Willie “Stretch” McCovey this past week. As I have been replaying the 1966 National League these past few years, his death made me pause to think just a little more than most would. While his 1966 season was probably not his…
My friend (and APBA Blog contributor) Scott Fennessy emailed me with a question a couple days ago: Hi Tom, I’m starting to work on the next Windows season 2011. I want to try and use actual lineups for all the CPU teams and use my own for the Cubs. Where…
GF Korreck hosted a well-run inaugural Furniture City APBA Tournament. The tournament was held at Legends Sports and Games in Grand Rapids, Michigan, which is a sports cards, gaming cards, and sports memorabilia store. Eighteen managers rolled games throughout the day surrounded by beautiful memorabilia. After eight games of…
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…