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OAPBA 2011 season is underway

Rod Caborn sends us an update on the 2011 Orlando APBA Association draft which occurred on January 22nd.

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Pictured above: Walt Taylor (Whatevers) Steven Korb (Turfbeaters) and Dave Larson (Taz Devils) go over their plans at the 2011 OAPBA Draft.

The Orlando APBA Association (OAPBA) has moved into its 24th season with 2011 play  already underway in sunny Central Florida.

For 2011, the league has added an expansion franchise, Jonathan Stillwell’s Otters, and split into three three-team divisons. The league will play an 80-game schedule in 2011 with each division winner making the playoffs, along with the team with the fourth-best record (wild card entry) and a “play-in” series between the wild card and the team with the fifth-best record. The three divisions are the Red Barber Division (north Orlando are), Harry Caray Division (Orlando downtown metro area) and the Ernie Harwell Divison (south Orlando area).

In the 2011 draft, held in downtown Orlando on Jan. 22, Joe Passitore’s Platoon, the league’s defending champion, traded for the first pick and grabbed slugger Jose Bautista.  Rod Caborn’s Beefers took P Mat Latos with the second pick and Marc Bostrom’s Road Warriors selected veteran Tim Hudson (49 lifetime wins in OAPBA, just outside the league’s all-time Top Ten winners) with the third pick.
thanks for the update, Rod.  Congrats on the expansion!

Thomas Nelshoppen

I am an IT consultant by day and an APBA media mogul by night. My passions are baseball (specifically Illini baseball), photography and of course, APBA. I have been fortunate to be part of the basic game Illowa APBA League since 1980 as well as a frequent participant of the Chicagoland APBA Tournament. I am slogging through a 1966 NL replay and hope to finish before I die.

3 Comments:

  1. The Baseball Zealot
    February 6, 2011 at 8:34 pm

    thanks for the photo too, Rod.

    aside from the faces and the name on the white board (and perhaps the mlb logos :)), it looks just like our league get togethers :)

    Reply
  2. DonS
    February 6, 2011 at 10:59 pm

    Zealot,

    You mean they also have manegers who draft when they are drunk?

    DonS.

    Reply
  3. The Baseball Zealot
    February 7, 2011 at 10:42 pm

    @Don
    LOL, that’s what’s different. Our league photo would have empty beer bottles strewn all over. :)

    Reply

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