SLUGGERS (KERNELS) OUT HOMER CHAMPS 18-7
 
I should’ve let Gracey our dog take a nip out of Keith when he showed up at my house to play shum APBA after traveling over 2 1/2 hours through rush hour traffic, if I’d only known what was to come. Keith’s Kentucky Kernels won the last three games in our nine [...]

Here are the All Time Home Run hitters in the Illowa APBA League as reported by our league historian.  The IAL has been around since the mid-70s. 
 

Player
* active
Home Runs

Barry Bonds
655

Mark McGwire
591

Rafael Palmeiro
573

Ken Griffey. Jr.*
571

Mike Schmidt
535

Manny Ramirez*
484

Frank Thomas*
473

Alex Rodriguez*
469

Cal Ripken, Jr.
468

Carlos Delgado*
448

 

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The New York Times ran a nice piece called The Crack of the Dice on the game of APBA and the recent Convention in Lancaster.
John Duke took this year’s tournament using the 1909 Pittsburgh Pirates.  It’s his second title in two years.  He won in 2007 with the 1927 Yankees.
Congrats John!
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Rod Caborn from the Orlando APBA Association, writes to announce that they have a new web address for their league. . 
You can access their new web site here.
Well done, Rod!

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CLuke wanted to point out that the APBA Co. was providing the 1966 All-Star team free as a downloadable pdf file.  You can get it from APBA’s Download page. 
Here is the direct link.
MVPs in 1966 were Frank Robinson of the Orioles and Roberto Clemente of the Pirates.  Sandy Koufax, Cy Young award winner, [...]

Has anyone ordered/gotten the 1912 season yet? 
It’s a previously unreleased set by APBA but we got a sneak peak when they released their World Series set a while back which included the 1912 pennant winners, the Red Sox and Giants teams. 
That was a while ago but one thing that stands out was Smokey [...]