OAPBA Lifetime Records showing consistencies among leagues’ stats

Seems that lately, the big news with leagues on this blog is historical record keeping.  With Stray Corrado informing us about Derek Jeter’s run for 3000 hits in the MWBL, John Briggs telling us about the lifetime records for the RCMBA and the IAL updating their historical records once again, it’s APBA league archive history heaven.

Now we hear from Rod Caborn who is getting us some good all-time league stats from the Orlando APBA Association (OAPBA).  Rod emailed me documents that tell a detailed history of the league.  Rod encouraged me to post them here (they are all in pdf form).

OAPBA Historical Library

Indeed, these documents tell a great story of a great league.  The Year-by-Year document gives a good overview of each season of OAPBA’s history which goes back to 1988. 

Me?  I like to delve into all-time leaders.  They’re always fun to look at.  It’s interesting to me that Maddux and Clemens seem to be 1-2 in most categories just like the IAL (and Mike Mussina is right around the corner too).  One big difference… Randy Johnson was lucky to make it into OAPBA; he never got drafted into the IAL.  So we see the ‘Big Unit’ up there in the K category. 

And yes, once again we see Derek Jeter third on the all-time hit list just like he is for the MWBL and for the IAL.  It is amazing though how we see the same players on these all-time lists.  ARod, Chipper, Manny, Barry, Piazza.

Amazing, I guess but not really.  They are supposed to be there, right?  APBA IS a simulation game after all.  I suppose we would be more amazed if Edgar Renteria was among the top hitters.  But when reality matches our expectations, we (at least I) get a little surprised. 

Thanks for sharing, Rod!