10/28/09: Strat-O-Matic in the Chicago Sun Times

I have been playing APBA baseball since 1970, players cards were based on the 1969 baseball season, but before I ever picked up a pair of APBA dice, I was rolling three dice, playing Strat-O-Matic.  I was first introduced to dice baseball by my cousins, who lived in Johnsburg, Illinois.  They had the Strat-O-Matic cards [...]

09 carded list out!

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. 

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Behold the Pitching Grades! The NL version

And here are the NL 2008 APBA pitching grades that just came out. 
Again, no time yet to really look them through but Edison Volquez gets a 16! 
thanks to Bruce Norlander for assembling the grades and posting them on Between the Lines
 
 
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