25
May

Dave Walker’s APBA Directory available

In an earlier post, I had mentioned that Dave Walker was going to take an extensive survey of APBA Leagues, asking a variety of questions about the makeup of the leagues and how they are run.  The idea was to create a Directory of APBA Leagues.

With Dave’s permission, I’m making the Directory available here on The APBA Blog.  At this point, I’ll be hosting it and you can download it in Excel format.  For those who prefer, you can also get it in comma-delimited (.csv) format.

Thanks to Dave for doing the grunt work on this project.  It has a lot of valuable data.

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14
May

Sebring’s Was The First

sebringsOn my White Sox trivia tear-off calendar today was this, “Introduced in 1866, Sebring’s Parlor Base Ball Field was the first tabletop baseball game.”  Doing some research I found an article on the Baseball Hall of Fame website, which talked about tabletop baseball games.  Visit the website and you can even play online versions of these antique baseball games from yesterday.

The picture above is not of Sebring’s game, but rather Zimmer’s Base Ball game of 1893.  Neither APBA nor Strat-O-Matic was featured in the HOF exhibit.

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