Upperdecker manager Marcus Bunch takes on John Brandeberry’s Rising Bamm! Beanos Pardon me if I rant about my team’s performance today, See, my Twin City Thunderchickens took on the Moline Upperdeckers managed by Marcus Bunch. He came all the way down to Urbana to play two nine-game series; one against my cross-town rival John Brandeberry [...]
To some, playing in APBA leagues is a purely academic exercise. It’s an effort to win as many games as possible or perhaps to maintain some realism or accuracy in the process. To many others, we see our assembly of cards as a team and ourselves as the general manager and field manager. Sometimes we [...]
I received a press release of sorts from Rod Caborn from the Orlando APBA Association announcing the winner of their first half title: Joe Passiatore’s defending champion Platoon (31-11) have captured the first half title in the Orlando APBA Association (OAPBA) 2010 pennant race. Led by the all-pinstripe infield of Mark Texeira, Robinson Cano, [...]
Devoted reader Steve Stein writes in an email: “How about a post on cool tools your APBA league has devised?” I think partially this is Steve’s nice way of saying “Tom, get off your butt and update the blog, wouldya?”. And that’s a fair point, I’ve been so involved with covering the University [...]
Ricky Moore of The Matt Kading Memorial APBA League checks in and gives us a report on their league’s 2010 draft: Tampico went into Saturday’s 2010 Matt Kading Memorial APBA League draft needing to add depth, especially in the field. Stogies General Manager Ricky Moore was pleased with his 10 selections, but still unhappy [...]
Nothing like getting beat 5 games to 1 over Skype. Teddy and his Champions ate me up like this morning’s breakfast today while we played our March series for the Illowa APBA League. Maybe I was paying too much attention to the Illinois baseball game in the background (they won 11-3, yay) but it was [...]
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. [...]
In the late 80s, our basic game league had a manager who in addition to keeping the requisite league pitching and hitting stat categories, also kept fielding stats. We all thought he was a little nuts but since he was in charge of putting out the newsletter, we got to see them every month. At [...]
