1
June

The APBA Blog sponsors the ‘Count’

Like many baseball fans, I use the stats website, Baseball Reference pretty much on a daily basis.  It’s one of the most useful baseball statistics sites out there.  With the amount of times I quote stats, it really adds value to The APBA Blog.   It was time to give a little back. 

I had been thinking of sponsoring a B-R page on behalf of The APBA Blog for a while (I have for the Illinois Baseball Report for years) but when I saw that Paul Dylan had sponsored Mario Mendoza’s B-R page in the name of his Puccinelli-APBA-Cardmost excellent blog One for Five, that had shamed me into finally taking action. 

I already knew whose page would be bearing the name of The APBA Blog.  George “Count” Puccinelli is a mostly unknown baseball player to most fans UNLESS you happen to be a member of the APBA community.  His 1930 card is legendary and is one of the first I chose for my Monster Card Monday series. 

So I virtually plopped down a small amount of cash (worth every penny for all the enjoyment I get from Baseball Reference) and sponsored George Puccinelli’s Baseball Reference page. 

So thanks Paul for pushing me into taking action.  I’m sure B-R thanks you, too.

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10
May

I totally would watch this if they played APBA…

l watched a few YouTube episodes of Table Talk and found it a rather fun and unique concept idea for a show.  Basically, it gathers a few online personalities together to play a popular tabletop board game and jazzes it up with witty conversation and even throws in hints about the game.

 

Hosted by Wil Wheaton (Wesley Crusher from Star Trek: The Next Generation who has found new life as an author and web celebrity), Table Top no doubt has a limited commercial appeal among American people.  But I’m sure it has a niche audience that it appeals to.

Watching it, I couldn’t help wonder what it would be like with APBA as the game du jour.  I imagine for most of us, we would find it quite hilarious.  I chose to link the “Settlers of Catan” episode above.  Towards the end, the losers of the game blamed their dice for their loss and virtually burned them.  

I thought, “Hmm, we APBA players NEVER blame our dice!”.  

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1
July

APBA Roll Call

facebook-iconFor those of you on Facebook, this might be of interest.  Back in May, Dom Provisiero of the O.Z. League, started a “Roll Call” on the APBA Games Facebook page. 

Since then over 50 APBA fans have responded.   Sometimes they added information such as their hometown, the games they play or other even more interesting information.  It’s a fun read. 

Check it out if you’re on Facebook and if you want, heed the roll call. 

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