Dave Rueck sure liked this 2017 Jose Altuve card. And why wouldn’t he? It’s the kind of APBA card that will fit anywhere in the lineup. Houston Astro Altuve handily won the AL MVP award over slugger Aaron Judge. With a league-leading 204 hits, Altuve was the batting champ with…
Prairieland 3 has been announced! Go check out Eric Berg’s blog Red 11 for the official press release. The organizing committee of Tom Fulton, Dave Rueck, Eric Berg and I have brought on Springfield native Todd Daniels to help with the tourney. Thanks Todd! We are working on the finer…
There was quite a revealing Facebook thread on APBA regarding basic game rules. It started with Rob Wash posting a photo of Bruce Bochte and an roll of an 11. See, Bochte has double columns but has a first column six. Specifically, he has an 11-6-1. Rob’s question was this:…
It’s been a while since I reported about my Twin City Thunderchickens. As it is, my Illowa APBA League team played their final series of the 2017 season this past week. Going into the last month, Twin City was 71-82 and in 7th place (in a 10-team league). Well, commissioner…
Thomas Fulton has an opinion about this new 2017 Rougned Odor card. Says Tom: “I know he hit 30 hrs. But playing in Texas why wouldn’t you give this guy a day off when he only batted 204?. Think a couple days off might have helped?” Season Totals Split G…
I want to encourage everyone to tune in this Thursday (Jan.25th) at 8pm EST on This Week in APBA. Why? I am honored to be a guest on John Asalon’s show this week. [Update: The show is archived here if you wish to listen to it. ] This show should be…
There are wild, crazy and MONSTER card in the new 2017 APBA Baseball set. Dave Rueck shared Giancarlo Stanton’s card and boy, that fits the bill. Used to be, three 1s was reserved for folks like Ruth (not to take away from Stanton at all). Well, Stanton had a Ruthian…
Have you ever gotten into a conversation with someone outside the context of APBA and found out that they play the game? That happened to me yesterday. It was time for me to get a haircut so I went to the barbershop in the University of Illinois campustown. It’s a…
Craig Mobley posted this Fred Lynn card of 1975 recently on the APBA Baseball group on Facebook. I looked back in the archives and while I have featured Lynn’s 1979 card, I never got around to his signature 1975 APBA card. Lynn had a fantastic season in his rookie year…
You know the drill. OAPBA, the Orlando-based APBA league has one of the best, scratch that, THE BEST annual yearbook of any APBA league in existence. You can view it in its entirety here in pdf form. It may take a while. It is a whopping 36 pages long. Of…