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…
Francis Rose is selling the APBA Journal. Citing lack of time to devote to it, entrepreneur Francis Rose is attempting to unload the periodical dedicated the game of APBA. AJ, which has been around since I was kid, was a great resource for those who played in leagues as well…
Every year at the end of the MLB season and when APBA releases their carded player list, our league gets a pretty good idea how the APBA baseball cards will look like for the following year. Like clockwork, our tireless commissioner, Mike Bunch, releases his predictions for the IAL league…
For those who will be entering draft time sometime soon, here is a list (in pdf form) of the 2009 rookies that our commissioner put together. For the players, it includes playing time including games at secondary positions. For pitchers, it includes playing time as well as W-L record and…
The APBA Game Co has just realeased the list of carded players for the 2009 baseball set. Here is the link to the list (in pdf form). I’m just getting a chance to look at it for the first time right now. I’ll probably have some comments on it later.
I want to run an idea past everyone and see if there is any interest in it. 1. Would you find it helpful/useful/interesting to have an online database or spreadsheet that had the pitchers’ APBA grades and ratings for every season that the company issued? Would you use such…
Steve Stein lets us know that he’s updated the historical archive of the Transcontinental Baseball League. Any league that’s been around long enough to say they have a “history” should pat themselves on the back. Those who had the forethought to keep their history documented and intact…
For the fifth time in a row, the East beat West in the annual Illowa APBA League All Star Game. Unlike last year when the outcome was never in question, the game went down to the wire with the West Division getting the tying run on deck in the…
The Illowa APBA League is having its All-Star weekend starting today. We each got a series or two of regular season games in this evening. If you must know how I did, I’m currently 2-6 for the weekend. I haven’t done my stats yet but Geovany Soto and Ray Durham…
For those interested, I convinced six writers to guest blog for The Baseball Zealot writing an article a day for one week. The topic was predicting the MLB end-of-year awards and postseason predictions. Guest bloggers ranged from our own Teddy Ballgame to Baseball Musings’ David Pinto. Organizing the project was…