Hallelujah! Just in time for Christmas, Steve Guthrie has once again come out with APBA cards for the NCAA.  Above you see secondbaseman Josh Parr who plays for my beloved Illini.
You can go to Steve’s web site to download the cards in excel file format.  Once downloaded, you can print them out to use. [...]

The network was down where I was at so it gave me some time to look at the 2009 disk some again.  More fun with Excel.  Maybe there’s room for one more segment in the 2009 APBA Baseball set: By the Numbers series. 
We’ll start with a couple of team comparisons today.  Then I’ll look [...]

In my last segment of APBA’s 2009 baseball set by the numbers, I’m going to break down at some of the more esoteric (ok, esoteric for us Basic Game guys) ratings used by the computer game.  Hopefully, that will give you an idea of the value of a rating in comparison to the rest of [...]

Last night, I broke down the position players of new 2009 APBA baseball set number-wise.  Tonight, it’s the pitchers’ turn.  A little more difficult what without all the fun hit numbers and all but I still did all right.
 

# of pitchers in the 2009 APBA set
442

 
Let’s start off with a simple breakdown of the graded [...]

I’m getting  a good look at the numbers for the 2009 APBA Baseball disk file today.  I thought I’d play around a bit and break it down number-wise.  After some sorting and filtering, here is the 2009 set by the numbers. 
Today, I’m strictly looking at the position players.   Maybe tomorrow, I’ll break down the [...]

(ed note:  Thanks to Rob Moore for submitting this! –tbz)
One of the highlights of the offseason in APBA-land is the release of the disc for the just-finished season. I don’t even use Baseball for Windows anymore, and yet I still buy the disc. This year, for the first time, I pre-ordered it and received it [...]

I’ve been in contact with Pete, the man who bought the 1956 original set of cards on Ebay I wrote about a few days back.
We initially got talking because he wanted to clarify my erroneous statement that the set was bought by a Sport Memorabilia shop.  My bad!  It was my error (though for [...]

 
Interesting auction on Ebay that just finished (here’s the link for as long as they keep it up).  The seller was auctioning off the original 1956 APBA baseball card set. 
Here the description of the set off the Ebay page:
 
This set has 15 of the original 1956 teams (Reds are missing). Those 15 teams [...]

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, [...]

Reader Kevin sent me a email with a question regarding roster sizes of the card sets.  I think it’s worth bringing up.  If one person is confused about it and wrote in about it, there are probably 100 others who are wondering the same thing… most likely those who are new to the game. 
Kevin [...]