APBA Game Company CEO John Herson is almost always willing to answer a few questions for The APBA Blog. He took a few minutes to answer a couple on a variety of topics. Thanks to Mr. Herson for his time! …the updated APBA web site The APBA Blog: Let’s talk…
Like many baseball fans, I use the stats website, Baseball Reference pretty much on a daily basis. It’s one of the most useful baseball statistics sites out there. With the amount of times I quote stats, it really adds value to The APBA Blog. It was time to give a…
Yesterday, APBA officially announced the release of the 1910 baseball card set and disk to the delight of deadball APBA fans, I’m sure. Rk Tm W L W-L% GB 1 CHC 104 50 .675 — 2 NYG 91 63 .591 13.0 3 PIT 86 67 .562 17.5 4 PHI…
Paul Dylan spending “quality time” with his two daughters If you haven’t seen Paul Dylan’s web site, One for Five, you’re missing out. He covers a sizable number of sports gaming territory including Strat-O-Matic baseball and APBA Soccer. He’ll also touch on general baseball and soccer topics as well as…
I found this old Illowa APBA League newsletter from the 90s in my office. It was the first newsletter of the 1994 season when yours truly was the president of the league. Back then kiddos, it was printed out on paper in booklet form and sent via postal mail. Here’s…
This 1972 Lindy McDaniel card is a reprint published in 1991 and suggested to me by Mel M. Thanks, Mel!! When I was prepping for this article, I found out how good of a pitcher McDaniel really was. Or even could have been. U of Oklahoma alum McDaniel pitched in…
I’m chronicling the exploits of Tyler “51-13” Colvin as he makes it through the 2012 season on my IAL Twin City Thunderchickens. Last night, I did my stats for the month of May. It was a short month, having only one nine-game series against our cross-town rivals the Rising Bamm!…
Kilg.us, where have you been all my life? I put a call out on The APBA Blog Facebook page asking if anyone knew of any good baseball stat tracking websites. I just wanted a way to keep tabs on how my APBA league players are doing in the MLB in…
The TBL Baseball Annual is out! In my opinion, it’s probably the best annual compilation of articles, stats and information about an APBA League that comes out on a regular basis. “Our version of Street and Smith’s”, says TBL member Steve Stein. The TBL Baseball Annual is edited by Walter…
No, not that kind of scoring. Get yer mind out of the gutter. :) Our commish keeps a pretty tight boxscore… even during an All-Star Game We’ve been having a good discussion on the APBA Blog Facebook page on how we keep score in APBA (mostly centered around baseball). …