I blogged about this a while back on The Baseball Zealot but it’s worth a mention here. For those who are both APBA players and fans of college baseball (I fit both categories… Go Illini!!), you might be interested in Steve Guthrie’s NCAA Baseball Cards web site.
Using Brian Davis’ Card Generator, Guthrie created [...]
There are a few ways APBA keeper leagues can determine draft order for rookie drafts. Depending on how it’s done, it can emphasize league parity or competition. I thought I’d run through the methods our league (the Illowa APBA League) has tried (or considered trying) throughout our history with their advantages and disadvantages.
The IAL [...]
This week’s APBA Card of the Week is 1953 Al Kaline (reprint). This was Kaline’s rookie year playing for the Detroit Tigers and even judging by his card you can tell it made from a small sample size.
Year Tm G AB R H [...]
I got the APBA Game Co. monthly eNewsletter today. Highlighting their communiqué was the announcement that we can pre-order Pro Hockey Board Game.
I’m not a huge hockey fan (but I’ve been known to watch a game or two) and I’ve never played APBA Hockey. That said, when I was at an APBA Convention some [...]
Steve Liles contacts us from back East about the Patriot League. An interesting facet about this Virginia-based, master game league is the salary structure they use which also implements the salary cap.
Here’s the scoop on the Patriot League:
League Name
Patriot League
Contact Person
Steve Liles
Sport
Baseball
# of teams
10
Year of inception
1981
Basic/Master/Computer/ Combination
Master
Out of the box or with modifications?
with modifications
Geographic [...]
At the last Illowa APBA League All-Star weekend, fellow manager, CLuke told me of this cool website he ran across that makes available team rosters, transactions, lineups and pitching rotations for pretty much every year of modern baseball. He said he used it to help with his 1959 APBA replay.
Then just yesterday I ran [...]
I always enjoy seeing APBA mentioned in the news media even if it’s just briefly. First, any PR for the game is good, in my opinion. Second, it’s interesting to see which sportswriters/athletes have played or encountered the game.
This time it’s Tim Griffin who interestingly covers college football for ESPN. His article about nicknames [...]
Seamheads.com has a book review of "The Eastern Colored League" by David Lawrence and Dom Denaro. I haven’t read the book but it has an APBA twist to it.
The monograph project started with the authors wanting to improve upon the APBA set of 20 Greatest Negro League Teams by finding a methodology that would [...]
Steve Stein and Walter Hunt both wrote in to tell us about their league, the Transcontinental Baseball League. True to its name, the 24-team league spans both the USA and Canada. One thing that struck out about this league was its yearly publication. It’s very professionally done and slick!
League Name
Transcontinental Baseball League
Contact Person
Walter H [...]
Thanks again to our fantastic commish at the IAL, we have the MLB stats in Excel format (zipped).
The spreadsheet includes:
pretty much all hitting and pitching stats
games played at position
pitchers’ hitting
a plus for APBA fans, certain offensive stats/36 PA so you can approximate hitter’s APBA cards.
plus a lot more!
Plus [...]
