1) THUNDERCHICKENS – TOMMY HANSON P: I watched Tommy dominate the AFL a couple of years ago, then he repeated the feat with the Braves in his rookie season, he has a funky delivery, almost like a dart thrower. Looks to be the heir apparent successor to Tom Glavine both with Atlanta and the T*Chix. [...]
Well, despite my offers and suggestions, I made it through the Illowa APBA League off season without making a single trade.
More to the point at hand, congratulations to Tedd and his Chicago Champions. On Friday night, they breezed through the playoffs and then swept the Rising Bamm! Beanos to win our World Series. [...]
With the Illowa APBA League draft convention one day away, it’s beginning to be crunch time. I have six pitchers and just one graded starter on my pitching staff at this point. The only good news is that I have six draft picks including the #1 pick, for our upcoming rookie draft (David Price, anyone?).
I [...]
A quick note: The Illowa APBA League’s web site has been updated. It’s the final edition of the 2009 season which if my math is right, was our 35th season.
Mighty congratulations to my blogging cohort, Teddy Ballgame whose Chicago Champions won 99 games. That not only clinched first place but was eleven games over [...]
My 2009 season in the Illowa APBA League is proof that a good, or at least decent, offense isn’t everything. My Twin Cities Thunderchickens just finished the year in last place out of ten teams.
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Yes, it’s 15 degrees out there and blowing snow (at least where we’re at… we’re not as lucky as our friends in the OAPBA) but the Illowa APBA League, is finishing up its last month of the season. As usual, our playoff race is coming down to wire. we have a ten team and the [...]
Last week, I holed myself up in a coffee house for a few days and reworked our league’s website.
Here is the result.
It’s been a few years since I’ve paid any serious attention to it so this was definitely overdue. I decided to use Wordpress (which is what I use for The APBA Blog) as [...]
Even now, I’m surprised by the stuff I find when I search Google.
I was searching on the keywords of our league name, “Illowa APBA League”. Apparently, there’s a Internet startup company called List Company that simply lists corporations and companies throughout the world and categorizes them and gives a quick synopsis of them. They do [...]
In the Illowa APBA League, it’s time for our annual IAL Hall of Fame vote. We started our Hall of Fame back in 1996 when IAL legends Mike Schmidt (career numbers 535 HR, 1468 rbi, 1400 runs) and Steve Carlton (214-148, 3.50 ERA, 2506 K) were obvious charter members.
Since then, we’ve inducted 18 more including [...]
I’m already tossing & turning about the upcoming IAL Rookie Draft, which isn’t until March, 2010. The upcoming crop of rookies seem to be a very good one, with five B starters, a A&C* relief pitcher, a star catcher, thirdbaseman, & shortstop available, along with four fulltime outfielders (one may be moving to 2B). What [...]
