One thing I’ve found is that there are a lot of good writers among the APBA crowd. You’ve already read Rod Caborn’s write-ups on his OAPBA league or his 1911 replay. There is something about playing the game that makes you want to tell others about it. Well the Transcontinental…
How you keep the box scores for the games in your replay is a very personal selection. The number of box score formats available is endless. Google box score formats and you get hundreds of examples of different formats that are available. Some questions worth considering before you settle on…
I’m sure these guys at the APBA Football Club Tournament weren’t a challenge (From L to R: Patrick McGregor, John Cochrane, Ray Dunlap, Bob Tassinari, Greg Wells, Greg Barath, Jerry Zajack and Geoff Giordano) We’re now on the fourth roundtable question with our awesome tournament organizers. They told us about…
Recording the score of each game seems obvious. But you need to have a well- organized system that will enable you go far beyond simply keeping scores. Once you get rolling you will want insights into each team’s performances. Home and away? Extra-inning games? One-run games? How many shutouts has…
Up north in the state of Minnesota, Jim Fraasch is a moving force in the APBA community. He’s helped organized the Neil Ess Memorial Twin Cities APBA Baseball Tournaments which is going on its fifth one next April. Jim is also author of a new APBA-related blog called Jim’s APBA…
It seems that this weekend is the big weekend for APBA baseball drafts. Our Illowa APBA League meets on Friday in Chicago suburbs for the postseason, draft and the start of the 2015 season. But our league is not the only league drafting this weekend. Stray Corrado is getting ready…
Matthew writes with questions on starting a replay: Hello, I’m enjoying your blog, especially the ’66 replay. I did single team replays growing up with pops, all late 80s to 90s. I’m just reentering the APBA world in my early 30s. I’d like to do a replay of an earlier…
…but use a second sheet next time, manager! A week ago Thursday, I had my first Illowa APBA League series since our draft weekend. It was test to see if my Twin City Thunderchickens’ 17-13 was a fluke or not. Well, we got five games in that night playing over…
Steve Stein from the Transcontinental Baseball League sends us a press release on their upcoming draft held one week from now. There are links included to rosters, eligible draftees and draft previews (some with a bit of humor). Each APBA leagues have their own rules governing their drafts and each…
For a good while now, there’s been a flurry of comments on one of Scott Fennessy’s columns and a good APBA/deadball discussion is brewing. There was talk of season compatibility and even adjustments to pitchers’ ratings to make them more accurate and realistic. Chris Witt provides a tangible outcome from…