I’m already tossing & turning about the upcoming IAL Rookie Draft, which isn’t until March, 2010. The upcoming crop of rookies seem to be a very good one, with five B starters, a A&C* relief pitcher, a star catcher, thirdbaseman, & shortstop available, along with four fulltime outfielders (one may…
October baseball, ya gotta love it! MLB is down to four teams standing, two from LA, one from NY, and then there’s the defending champion team from Philadelphia. There is a big contrast played between games on the east coast and those played in sunny California. The Angels have had…
Got to Naperville this past Friday evening for the Illowa APBA League’s All Star weekend. Each team plays each out of town opponent six times for a total of 30 games. Heading into the weekend my Chicago Champions were in first place, two games up on the 2nd place Rising…
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…
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…
WHEN YER HOT, YER HOT & WHEN YER NOT, YER NOT APBA is a simple game, it’s a children’s dice game, to recreate the feel of a baseball game. If you roll good dice & the other guy doesn’t, you win, even if the other guy has the ’27 Yankees…
I drafted Mark Buehrle in the IAL for my Chicago Champions, not only because he pitches for my real life favorite major league team, the White Sox, but also because he’s good, doesn’t have overpowering stuff, but moves the ball around & uses his cutter to get guys out. He’s…
The Illowa APBA League had last year’s playoffs & World Series, along with the rookie draft, and opening of the new season (30 games per team) in Naperville Illinois in March. Then most teams played an in area series (9 games) in April. This past weekend was the league’s May…
On 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…
Let me explain myself before I start a riot here. I’ve been playing APBA baseball since 1970, 40 of my 53 years on earth. I LOVE the game of baseball, enjoy APBA, especially seeing the stats grow over a long season, trading & drafting to build my ballclub, the Chicago…