It won’t be long till we start seeing the APBA baseball products associated with the 2024 MLB season. Via the APBA Games newsletter, this is the tentative schedule when you can expect to see some action.
This week, it’s Don Newcombe from the 1955 World Champion Brooklyn Dodgers. ‘Newk’ went 20-5 with a 3.20 ERA. He had incredible control allowing only 38 walks over 233 2/3 innings.
Every day, my inbox is full of Pitching Grade Challenge 7 ballots and I spend time processing them. I see lots of names I recognize. Some are long time APBA friends.
Charles Cox posted the original 1966 Dick Allen on Facebook and boy, it sure looked good! As some of you know, I have been off and on replaying the 1966 NL season (no comments from the peanut gallery, Bob) and through the All-Star break, Allen has been having himself an MVP season.
You can’t tell me that the visual of a bunch of guys in kilts swinging baseball bats at flying pigs didn’t pop in your head. Of course, the way Kerry hit whilst dropping 4 of 5 at Philly you know the Pigs are perfectly safe.
I have never totally recorded detailed fielding statistics for a replay. The number of putouts and assists and the work required to compile stats like assists and putouts is overwhelming and would turn a replay into tedium, not enjoyment.
John Briggs sends in a report about the postseason of the Roberto Clemente Memorial Baseball Association which just finished its 50th season.
Olli Niemela is taking his own BATS project and enlisting the help of the APBA Baseball group on Facebook. Long story short, he was getting people’s opinions of the Cincinnati Reds representative for shortstop.
Darren Schulz sends an LBS tourney recap! With a new LBS record of 50 managers in attendance, the divisional round-robin formatallowed for no wild card entries in 2024. Win your division and you are in the Elite 8 of teamsfrom 1940-1999 with a winning percentage of .550 or under. When…