These three pitchers were no doubt cheated out of a better grade by APBA: 1990 Jose DeJesus DW 7 wins, 3.74 ERA, 22 starts, 130 IP 1979 Steve Busby DW 6 wins, 3.63 ERA, 22 games, 12 starts, 94.1 IP 1937 Spud Chandler D 7 wins, 2.84 ERA, 12 games,…
Upperdecker manager Marcus Bunch takes on John Brandeberry’s Rising Bamm! Beanos Pardon me if I rant about my team’s performance today, See, my Twin City Thunderchickens took on the Moline Upperdeckers managed by Marcus Bunch. He came all the way down to Urbana to play two nine-game series; one against…
To some, playing in APBA leagues is a purely academic exercise. It’s an effort to win as many games as possible or perhaps to maintain some realism or accuracy in the process. To many others, we see our assembly of cards as a team and ourselves as the general manager…
I received a press release of sorts from Rod Caborn from the Orlando APBA Association announcing the winner of their first half title: Joe Passiatore’s defending champion Platoon (31-11) have captured the first half title in the Orlando APBA Association (OAPBA) 2010 pennant race. Led by the all-pinstripe infield…
I ran across an article by Derek Ambrosino over at The Hardball Times (a great site for baseball analysis; check it out if you haven’t already). It’s entitled The ethicist part two: pulling a fast one. No doubt, Derek is speaking to the fantasy baseball crowd here but it’s certainly…
Francis Rose is selling the complete collection of APBA Journals on Ebay. The issues start in AJ’s first year of 1967 all the way to 2002, 363 in all. Interesting to note that the early ones aren’t distribution issues but rather Len Gaydos’ original copies. From the Ebay description: …
Me (right) getting annihilated 5 games to one by Tedd The Illowa APBA League wrapped up our June get-together on late Saturday night after playing 24-30 games each. The big story to me was the domination of the Chicago teams. You see, our league is divided into two divisions…
Bob D’Angelo aka “The Sports Bookie”, interjects his preference for tabletop baseball games in his review of The Underground Baseball Encyclopedia: The Stuff You Never Needed to Know and Can Certainly Live Without on TBO.com: What I enjoyed most about this book were some of the obscure entries. For…
The Illowa APBA League is congregating this weekend in Champaign, Illinois as they do every year around this time of year to play inter-division games. It’s late on Friday night (Saturday morning actually) but here are a couple photos: As for me, my Twin City Thunderchickens have…
This modification comes from John Briggs from the Roberto Clemente Memorial Baseball Association. John is the one who suggested the Slow Runners Runners Card in a past article if you want to take a look at that. This time, John and the RCMBA are addressing how APBA addresses fielding and…