Festivities are underway in Lancaster, PA for the 2012 APBA Convention. Word has it from organizer Francis Rose (via Geoff Giordano) that there are about 70 attendees and a healthy number of first time attendees. Tonight’s activities included announcing this year’s APBA Hall of Fame inductees. Congrats to Kevin Cluff…
The APBA Convention is this weekend. I want to wish all Convention attendees safe travels, a good time and good luck for those participating in the tournament. Sadly, I won’t be there. Work, family and finances conspired to keep me from attending. I will be thinking of you all this…
As I wrote a couple days ago, I spent this past weekend at Commissioner Mike Bunch’s house playing some Illowa APBA League games. It was a homecoming of sorts as Mike hosted the very first IAL get together I attended at the tender age of 16 (that was back in…
Bob “Hurricane” Hazle’s 1957 card was one of the first “monster” APBA cards, that is, a super human card based on a stats of a small sample size. Hazle’s story is simple. He came up for the Braves in July of 1957 and for the time he played that year,…
There’s been a lot of discussion and questions lately about the latest version of APBA Baseball 5.75. The APBA Game Company has posted a FAQ today to help answer some of the questions that have probably been asked a lot. Hopefully, that will clear up some of the confusion for…
L to R: John Brandeberry, Commish Mike Bunch, Marcus Bunch I mentioned last week that I was APBA-bound this weekend. Indeed, my buddy John “Brando” Brandeberry and I traveled to three and a half hours to Colona, Illinois to the Illowa APBA League commissioner’s house Friday and through the course…
I’m in the middle of migrating my APBA-related photos to my SmugMug photo gallery and ran across these photos from the 2002 National APBA Convention. Ten years ago, I went to a national APBA Convention in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. It was 2002 and that was when young Brian Wells, at age…
Another APBA weekend coming up! No, it won’t be a full Illowa APBA League convention like we had a month ago but rather a “mini” intra-division get together. I plan to knock off work early and ride up with my buddy Brando to the Quad City area to test our…
Fred Stiely may have missed his calling. A pitcher for the St Louis Browns between the years of 1928 and 1931 he didn’t wow anyone with his arm even considering the elevated offense of the era. In fact, he only pitched 34 plus innings. In that time, he gave up…
Yesterday, I went to the Northern Illinois Vintage Base Ball Tournament in Wheaton, Illinois where they play baseball by the rules and customs of pre-Civil War era (it’s lots of fun if you have a local vintage base ball team in your era). I did a write up on the…