This past year, some APBA fans expressed some mild displeasure at the way power numbers were doled out for a couple hitters in the 2012 baseball set. Specifically, I’m talking about those players who hit a fair amount of homeruns but didn’t receive a single one on their card. Starlin…
A couple days ago, I started to take a look at how I do my stats for my replays. In my first article, I began with the team spreadsheet and how I set those up for each team. From here we’ll take a look at my Master spreadsheet. The Master…
by Scott Fennessy Philadelphia, PA 7/25/1905 The Cubs face the Phillies in game 2 of this series. Jake Weimer fresh of a 1 hit shutout is on the hill for the resurging Cubs and he faces “Frosty Bill” Duggleby who is a solid pitcher complete with a no hitter back…
I thought I’d give you a little glimpse into how I’m keeping track of stats for my 1966 NL replay. I know not everybody uses MS Excel for statkeeping. Some use BallStat and others do it by hand. BBW players don’t even have to worry about stat keeping. They’re the…
Got a chance to try out the new boards tonight as I played two games of my 1966 NL replay. But first… …is this a card that will drive five runs in a game? It did. The Braves’ Sandy Alomar went 3 for 5 with a double and 5 rbis…
The first Chicagoland APBA World Series Tournament was such a success, they’re going to do it again. Doug Schuyler announced today that the location for the 2nd go-round has already been reserved. Here are the details from Doug: 2nd Chicagoland APBA World Series Tournament!!!!! Need a show of hands people!…
Thanks to Tom Zuppa for suggesting 1978 Mike Fischlin of the Houston Astros for this week’s tribute to sub-mediocrity. I can honestly say I’ve never heard of this ballplayer before this week. Journeyman infielder Fischlin made his rounds in the late 70s and 80s. He managed to stick around for…
It’s a thing now in APBA Baseball leagues. Derek Jeter is either becoming the hits leader in leagues or reaching the 3000 mark (see also: Derek Jeter approaching milestone in MWBL and OAPBA Lifetime Records showing consistencies among leagues’ stats). Now it’s happened in the Illowa APBA League as evidenced…
It’s interesting to me that there haven’t been more Triple Crown winners in baseball. That’s not to diminish the effort it takes to lead in just one category let alone three of the most important stats (let the argument begin about the significance of the rbi stat!). But there have…
by Scott Fennessy Philadelphia, PA 7/24/1905 The Cubs continue their road swing moving from Boston to Philadelphia to face the fading Phillies. The Phillies had at one time looked like a threat to enter the then two team race with the Cubs and Giants, but then Hugh Duffy suffered a…