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Ryder Cup Golf download highlights latest APBA newsletter
The APBA Company came out with their newsletter yesterday. Golf fans should take note. The highlight article features a free download of the 2012 Ryder Cup golf set. This set includes 24 golfers who are participating this year. Here is the link to download the card set in pdf form. …
The APBA Blog Dice Shaker Project
Dice shakers… most of us who play the tabletop version of APBA use them. However, I’m wondering how many of us use the APBA-issued yellow dice shakers that come with the game. Do any of you roll with different shakers or cups or perhaps modify the APBA shakers somehow? Perhaps…
Remembering Seitz
Paul Dylan from One for Five brings up a poignant matter. It was twenty years ago today when Dick Seitz, founder of the APBA Game Company, passed on. Maybe it’s me being old but it seems so much longer ago. Some of us hard core APBA fans probably give Dick…
Derek Jeter approaching milestone in MWBL
I love these kinds of APBA stories. Stray Corrado points out that in his Mid-West Baseball League, Derek Jeter is only 80 hits away from 3000 for his career in league play. That’s pretty amazing if you think about it. It’s a testament to Jeter. To accomplish 2920 hits in…
Lonborg no-hitter highlighting Mel M.’s 1967 Master Game replay
Sometimes, a big event in your APBA replay is too good not to share with others. Such is the case with Mel M. who writes to tell us about his 1967 Master Game baseball replay. Mel writes: Hi Tom, I’m still plugging away with my 1967 MG replay. I’ve played…
Monster Card Monday: 1938 Jimmie Foxx
Were it not for Hank Greenberg’s 58 homeruns, Jimmie Foxx would have won the triple crown in 1938. Foxx did lead the AL with a .349 average and 175 rbis. Pretty much any other year, he would have probably been the HR king too with his 50 homers. By 1938,…
Solving life’s mysteries: who was the APBA t-shirt model?
A week ago, the APBA Company took us back a few years and posted an old advertisement on their website from the Dick Seitz era hawking their t-shirts and bumper stickers. I remember the ad well. In fact, I had the bumper sticker up on my garage wall when I…
Tyler Colvin: Batting .142, he won’t be getting any IAL All-Star votes
I’m chronicling the exploits of Tyler “51-13” Colvin as he makes it through the 2012 season on my IAL Twin City Thunderchickens. Check me out, I’m getting my Illowa APBA League stats five days ahead of time! That’s atypical of me. I usually wait till 11:30pm of the deadline date…
Monster Card Monday: 1930 Harold ‘Pie’ Traynor
Ok, call me strange but what strikes me as interesting about this week’s MCM, 1930 Pie Traynor, is this… he has a 13-39 but a 26-14. Don’t think I didn’t notice the abbreviation of his hometown, either. Aside from that, I love this card. I had a affinity for Harold…