First, thanks to Ron Emch for providing this YouTube video of the playoff announcements at the Neil Ess Memorial Twin Cities APBA Baseball Tournament this past weekend. Check out Ron’s YouTube channel. Lots of good stuff! Tournament organizer Jim Fraasch has already updated his blog, Jim’s APBA Barn with a…
I’m going on rumor here but news on the grapevine has it that Bruce Tyler and his 1930 St. Louis Cardinals won the Neil Ess Memorial Twin Cities Area APBA Tournament this past weekend. Almost as incredible is that the man he beat in the championship game was Leroy Arnoldi…
Most replayers adhere to maintaining realistic use of how players were used at particular positions during a replay. How you use your players is solely up to you, but some of the realism of the game is lost if you overuse players at a position to the exemption of other…
The beauty of the game of APBA is that despite most real life conditions or events, we can rewrite history. A rainout? Doesn’t matter, we can still play. A strike or lockout? We can still play a full season. But some things still hit home pretty hard. Jose Fernandez’ death…
What’s this? A weird season? Well, Rodney Woodward and I were trading emails after he submitted Red Ruffing for last week’s WCW. He informed me of a very strange anomaly that occurred with the 1931 set that was published in 2012. It seems that the pitcher’s stats on the cards…
April 12, 2015 Coors Field Denver, CO It’s the end of the Cubs first road trip of the season and it was a successful one for certain. They are 4-0 as we reach “get away day” and after two straight nights of extra inning ballgames, both teams are dragging a…
Replayers wrestle with how to govern player usage during a replay. There is no precise or totally correct answer. Your choice depends solely on how much work you want to put into the replay and how much precision or realism you want to try and generate. Any once of the…
Rodney Woodward’s suggestion for WCW made me giggle just a bit. It’s Red Ruffing of the 1927 Boston Red Sox. Eventual Hall of Fame pitcher Ruffing is graded a D RXW pitcher on the 2012 release of his 1927 card. That’s the first (and probably last time) I’ll see that…
I was beginning a game in my 1966 replay the other day and while I was writing in lineups for the Cardinals that day, I noticed that they were starting a new shortstop for the first time that season, Jimy Williams. I thought it was interesting that I hadn’t seen…
I’ve posted about 1970 Johnny Bench before but Chris Esposito’s card is from the actual ‘70 set. The one from before was from an All-Star set I believe. This image is much clearer too (with a cool background!). Bench had a career year in 1970 with the Reds. Playing in…