Rod Caborn must know about my thing for an APBA league’s historical stats. He sent me the yearly leaders for the Orlando APBA Association. It’s quite an archive going back to when Tony Gwynn won the batting title in 1988 with a .350 average.
Rod notes:
Thought the attached might be of interest to APBA Blog readers. It’s the year-by-year leader list for OAPBA since the league’s inception. Lotta reading, but it when you go over the list, it really reinforces how APBA can replicate the actual results from MLB.
By way of summary, OAPBA, based in the metropolitan Orlando area, is a FTF league, currently with a 78-game schedule, seven teams. The league has had as many as nine teams and the schedule has varied from 78 to 84 games annually, depending on the number of teams in the league.
Rod is correct. You will see a good representation of MLB’s stats though a few names do stick out (Henry Cotto??). But that is the beauty of APBA. Even those players you wouldn’t expect to see on a league leaders list are up there when they had their career year (Jason Kendall, Jason Olerud).
You can see OAPBA’s entire yearly leaders document here.
thanks Rod!
