A sneak peek into my ballot for my league’s Hall of Fame

In the Illowa APBA League, it’s time for our annual IAL Hall of Fame vote.  We started our Hall of Fame back in 1996 when IAL legends Mike Schmidt (career numbers 535 HR, 1468 rbi, 1400 runs) and Steve Carlton (214-148, 3.50 ERA, 2506 K) were obvious charter members.
Since then, we’ve inducted 18 more including [...]

Follow-up on the Ebay Sale of 1956 original set

I’ve been in contact with Pete, the man who bought the 1956 original set of cards on Ebay I wrote about a few days back.
We initially got talking because he wanted to clarify my erroneous statement that the set was bought by a Sport Memorabilia shop.  My bad!  It was my error (though for [...]

Platoon wins 2009 OAPBA championship

Rod Caborn writes in with a 2009 final season update for the Orlando APBA Association:
 
Platoon wins second straight OAPBA championship in 2009
Joe Passiatore earns seventh league title; Platoon beats Beefers in World Series in five
The 2009 OAPBA season featured one of the league’s greatest pennant races between two great teams and a surprise performer [...]

Tips on trading

Advanced Fantasy Baseball has “Ten Fantasy Baseball Trade Secrets”.  It was posted last May and admittedly is geared toward fantasy baseball not APBA.  However, most of the tips still apply. 
Like #9:
 
Concern yourself with the end result more than the price. You may think giving up a certain keeper for a collection of players you [...]

Original 1956 set (most of it) goes for $338 on Ebay

 
Interesting auction on Ebay that just finished (here’s the link for as long as they keep it up).  The seller was auctioning off the original 1956 APBA baseball card set. 
Here the description of the set off the Ebay page:
 
This set has 15 of the original 1956 teams (Reds are missing). Those 15 teams [...]

I found my George Brett autographed APBA card!

Yesterday, when cleaning out my office I found a treasure.  After being lost for at least 10 years, I found my George Brett autographed APBA card.  And there’s a pretty cool story that goes with it, too.
In the early 90’s, after I graduated from college and before I could find a job in my [...]