I want to wish Ron Emch good luck this weekend. He’s hosting his fifth Glass City APBA Baseball Tournament on Saturday. Why “Glass City”? Because the tournament’s home Toledo, Ohio is dubbed as such for its industrial glass manufacturers. Nice touch, Ron!
I’m not able to attend this year but I’ve been privy to the communications that Ron has been sending out to the participants. He is one prepared dude! I can see why GCABT has been one popular tourneys. A well-run tourney is a happy tourney!
In his notes, Ron had this piece of wisdom:
APBA Experience. Some of the players who come to my tournament are not regular APBA gamers. Therefore, their knowledge of the results booklet will be limited. To the experienced players who have parts of the results booklet memorized, please allow the non experienced player time to read the result if they want to.
This is excellent advice and something I will try to heed myself. I’ve been told I know the boards pretty well. That doesn’t mean I should immediately blurt out the result and take away the “APBA Experience” from someone who might be new to the game.
We can expect to see some good video footage from this weekend. Ron does an excellent job of documenting tournaments.
You can see videos from past tournaments here at his YouTube channel.
This year, there will be 38 attendees at Glass City. Currently, here is the list of participants and their respective teams in the 2019 GCABT-V:
2019 GCABT-V Divisions
| Moses Fleetwood Walker Division | Jamie Farr Division | |||
| Michael Hernandez | 1973 Atlanta | David McCurdy | 1982 Los Angeles | |
| Dave Ross | 1950 Boston Red Sox | Dave Chestnut | 1988 Minnesota | |
| Andy Rumple | 1987 Toronto | Phillip Silvis | 1980 Los Angeles | |
| Jack Randolph | 1974 Cincinnati | Bob McCurdy | 1982 Philadelphia | |
| John Gedwill | 1976 Oakland | Shawn Baier | 1951 Brooklyn Dodgers | |
| James Scherf, Jr | 1999 Boston | Steve Smith | 1931 NY Giants | |
| Logan Schulz | 1965 Pittsburgh | Aaron Schulz | 1977 Pittsburgh | |
| Mel Wegman | 1932 Philadelphia | Dan Pierce | 1964 Cincinnati | |
| Dick Butler | 1962 Los Angeles | Jacob Figner | 1956 Milwaukee | |
| Jeremy Smith | 1930 NY Giants | David Dawn | 1969 Oakland | |
| Mike ‘Crash Davis’ Hessman Division | Hensville Division | |||
| Bill Ryan | 1949 Boston | Aaron Radlinski | 1969 Pittsburgh | |
| George Rousos | 1939 Boston | Michael Coon | 1994 Cleveland | |
| Jeff Boeding | 1934 Yankees | Kate Silvis | 1978 Pittsburgh | |
| Randy Egan | 1997 Yankees | Bob Campbell | 1972 Yankees | |
| Dave Figner | 1979 Montreal | Tucker McBride | 1949 St. Louis | |
| Chris Smith | 1993 San Francisco | Zack Zavela | 1995 Colorado | |
| Norm Zavela | 1996 Seattle | Darryl Langenderfer | 1930 Washington | |
| Darren Schulz | 1963 Minnesota | Scott Dike | 1980 Montreal | |
| Brian Silvis | 1954 Yankees | |||
| James Scherf, Sr | 1969 Detroit |
Good luck to all GCABT-V managers this weekend!!
top photo courtesy Ron Emch
Tom, thanks for the kinds words and support. They are very much appreciated.