APBA player Chad Holmes and I have been trading emails lately. He is a manager in the NVABL which by the way, has a pretty cool website.
Chad thought it would be a good idea if I started plugging more manager openings for leagues… putting those interested in leagues with those with open manager positions.
He writes:
“I’m wondering if you could help the APBA community in general (and selfishly, our NVABL league) by bringing awareness to the number of leagues with vacant manager spots. There seems to still be a decent amount of interest in APBA and I’m not sure how many folks realize how fun a full league can be!
If you’d be willing to point out how many leagues are posting openings in the Delphi forums.
If you could help in playing match maker it would be much appreciated.”
Great idea! A good place to start is APBA Leagues and Replays category in the APBA Between the Lines forum. More specifically, here are some individual threads to read if you are contemplating joining a league…
- NVABL– (DC area)
- 20-team BBW league
- 10-team BBW league
- Absolute APBA Association (8-team league since 1987)
- Full season Basic Game league using BallScore
Some of these leagues listed are BBW. Some are cards and dice. All are APBA!
Coincidentally, Neil Leininger of the long-running Lame Duck Baseball Association, also emailed me recently. The LDBA is looking for skippers, too.
Neil writes:
“The Lame Duck Baseball Association, a 20-team, continuous ownership, modified basic game mail league seeks replacement managers for our upcoming 35th season. The LDBA is an established and competitive league utilizing many fun innovations that combine basic game playability with the sophistication of the master game and beyond. Incoming managers will draft new teams from a talented dispersal pool (Bumgarner, Cano, Greinke, Kemp, Puig, Strasburg, J. Upton, Votto, Zimmermann, …) comprised of players from departing teams.
Schedule is 162 games from April through November, with winter trading and an annual March rookie draft. For more information about joining, please contact me at , right now there is 1 opening, but another manager may have to retire soon as well.
Our website is www.l-d-b-a.com”
I’m sure Chad and Neil will agree that APBA league play is quite a different beast than solo play. Not necessarily better or worse but a different way of approaching the game of APBA. Personally, I have made lifelong friends in the Illowa APBA League that I met over 30 years ago. Now, I am beginning to make good friends in my new league, the Boys of Summer APBA Online League.
thanks for the idea, Chad!
On the APBA “Between the Lines” there is a section entitled LEAGUE MATCH…..which is for players looking for a League and for Leagues looking for a Manager.
So between BTL, Facebook, and this Blog we should be able to connect players and Leagues pretty easily.
Years ago we only had the APBA Journal’s AJ Directory to help us find fellow rollers in APBA Nation.
The world has gotten much smaller much to the delight of APBA players.
Hello,
We need 5 teams for the 1970 Buck ONeil Baseball League (BOBL)
Would love the help.
Thank you so much!