This that and the other: With the closing of the Geocities web hosting service, YABL has had to relocate their fine website. You can now find them at http://webspace.webring.com/people/fb/burgda/. Important not only to find out about their league but for another reason. League member and webmaster Doug Burg maintains the APBA Baseball Card 12 List [...]
The emailed “disk” is making its way into people’s inboxes. By now, we know the official pitching grades and with a little extrapolation, the hitting numbers of the 2009 set. The big story among pitchers is the re-appearance of split grades. And I mean SPLIT grades. Phil Hughes is rated a 3 (24*) or a [...]
The APBA Game Co has just realeased the list of carded players for the 2009 baseball set. Here is the link to the list (in pdf form). I’m just getting a chance to look at it for the first time right now. I’ll probably have some comments on it later. Related posts Disk is out! [...]
CLuke wanted to point out that the APBA Co. was providing the 1966 All-Star team free as a downloadable pdf file. You can get it from APBA’s Download page. Here is the direct link. MVPs in 1966 were Frank Robinson of the Orioles and Roberto Clemente of the Pirates. Sandy Koufax, Cy Young award winner, [...]
Not really APBA related but this article in the LA Times reports that Lancaster, Pa, home of the APBA Co, is probably the closely watched community. The town of 55,000 has some 165 closed-circuit TV cameras monitoring public areas purportedly looking for crime. Some 165 closed-circuit TV cameras soon will provide live, round-the-clock scrutiny [...]
Opening Day won’t be here for another three months but since the 2008 cards and disks are out, APBA league play and replays can now commence. In that spirit, here are links to some past (dare I call them historical?) articles on the game of APBA in the mainstream press. Thanks to Teddy Ballgame (who [...]
This was the best day ever!!! “I GOT THE NEW CARDS!”, used to generate excitement. NOTE: I’ve included utility man Chris Burke’s card as proof, nobody, to my knowledge, has posted his, who cares, card. I remember getting together with friends, for an extended lunch at a local restaurant, to look at the new cards. [...]
I got the APBA Game Co. monthly eNewsletter today. Highlighting their communiqué was the announcement that we can pre-order Pro Hockey Board Game. I’m not a huge hockey fan (but I’ve been known to watch a game or two) and I’ve never played APBA Hockey. That said, when I was at an APBA Convention some [...]
Recently the APBA Game Company released their list of carded players for their 2008 baseball season. Listed under Kansas City is "Joey G]" who is most certainly Joey Gathright. If you want an Excel version of the list, you can download it here (zipped). Thanks to Mike Bunch, our hard working commish in the Illowa [...]
