First of all, I want to wish everyone who is attending Pastor Rich Zawadzki’s Greater Michigan APBA Baseball Tournament good luck. You might think the “Greater” is a geographical reference but from what I hear, it is indeed one of best tournaments out there.
Rich has an amazing total of 36 teams participating in the tournament this year at Gene Davis and Sons Steaks Eatery in Jackson, Michigan. Safe travels everybody and have lots of fun!! Looking forward to will win that trophy up there!
It is certainly APBA tournament season. In fact, in less than a month on April 1st, two tournaments both in the Midwest will be taking place at the same time. Jim Fraasch’ Neil Ess Memorial Twin Cities APBA Baseball Tournament – VII will be rolling dice in Maple Grove, Minnesota. A little further south, the Prairieland 2 APBA Baseball Tournament will be competing in Champaign, Illinois (you can find the registrants and their teams here at Eric Berg’s blog, Roll 11). Jim Welch (right) will be attending to defend his Prairieland crown. 
Both tourneys have 25 participants registered and ready to roll and as Jim wrote up on his blog, Jim’s APBA Barn, I think this a big thing for APBA! As far as either of us know, it’s the first time two regional tournaments have happened on the same day.
The organizers of both tournaments are talking and we’re trying to think of some creative ways for the two tourneys to interact on the big day. At the very least, we’ll have a video linkup between the two tournaments. Who knows? Maybe more.
Let’s keep it going folks! If you don’t have a tournament in your area, do what Jim Saska did and start your own. He moved to the Virginia area in the past couple years and his Capital of the Confederacy APBA Tournament has been grown up to 14 participants. Just remember, the very popular Chicagoland Tournament started out with just five guys on the first year.
