Hi everyone, The Prairieland 2 APBA Baseball Tournament which will take place in Champaign, Illinois on April 1st is less than three months away. APBA fans are beginning to sign up but there is plenty of room. This year’s tourney will feature a team and fantasy deadball player “draft” which…
Neil Leininger emailed me to let me know that he and Brian Hamilton are gearing to bring up a new APBA baseball league using the Basic Game. The league is called the Roy Hobbs Baseball Association and currently there’s room for managers!! If you take a look at the proposed…
I’ve been having some unusual games in my 1966 NL replay. So much so that I even researched to see if it was a full moon during the time I’m replaying (no, it was a new moon at this time). some of the fun stuff happening… May 19th St. Louis…
by Scott Fennessy For those of you who don’t do replays of the dead ball era, (and the return to running in the 80’s) then you really in my opinion missed a truly interesting period of baseball. Those days there were power hitters, although not by today’s standards, but there…
Happy New Year!! Pastor Rich Zawadzki thought that Keith Hernandez’ 1979 card would make a nice intro to the 2017. At first glance, Hernandez wasn’t your stereotypical 1970s firstbaseman. He didn’t hit many homeruns; he only hit 11 for the year. Hernandez was more of the slick-fielding, hit the…
Pittsburgh, PA PNC Park April 22, 2015 The Cubs face the Pirates in game 3 of a 4 game series. After two lopsided games I am expecting a more closely matched game. Tonight’s starter for the Cubs is Jon Lester (3-0) against A.J. Burnett (no record yet). Once again the…
I shared a few highlights of my 1966 NL replay with Chuck Lucas, Scott Fennessy and Jim Saska over email recently. Chuck, who has done his share of replays, had a simple but rather poignant observation. He replied, “Once the season starts to have story lines it becomes easier and…
Buxton: speedy dude This is last post in the “2016 by the numbers” series. I’ve made an attempt to look at the data from the 2016 APBA Baseball disk and cover overall trends as well as spotlight the best (as well as the worst). I checked out the defensive ratings…
When was the last time any baseball fan you know got excited about statistics tracking the number of putouts and assists generated by an individual player or team? Unless you are a minority of one, the answer is “Never.” Fielding performance is highly subjective and hard to quantify. Even today,…
DJ: Most hit numbers and most 31s The last couple days, I’ve taken a look at some of the data from the new APBA Baseball set. First, I did an overall look at the defense. Then, I looked at the pitching grade distribution while showing a few of the best…