John Briggs of the Roberto Clemente Memorial Baseball Association writes: I’ve been doing the pitcher splits for innings as starter & reliever for many many years. I used to do it for the APBA Journal for their last ten years or so and I still do it for our…
My buddy Brando and I settled down in his basement this afternoon to watch the Illinois-Ohio State football game and meanwhile play some APBA. As I mentioned this morning, he had chosen the 1930 Chicago Cubs and Brooklyn Dodgers for us to play leaving me with the Windy City team.…
My buddy Brando invited me over again today for another day of Illini football and APBA. Illinois is taking Ohio State at Memorial Stadium and we’ll be watching it on his big screen. What teams will we be playing? I asked him earlier if he wanted me to pick the…
Brian Cavanaugh updates us on the completion of the second season of the Bridesburg Boys and Girls Club Summer Baseball which is based in the Philadelphia area. For those who haven’t read about the Bridesburg Boys and Girls League before, Brian organizes kids at the local Boys and Girls Club…
We’ve been discussing baseball basic game a lot recently. During the comment discussions, the Unusual Play Card and Error Chart have been brought up. I assumed a lot of APBA Baseball fans have used these modifications and if not, have at least heard of them. Then again, there are a…
Big News! The 2011 Baseball Season Carded Player List has been released by the APBA Game Company. Here’s the link direct from the Company website. One big difference… this year it’s put out in an Excel format. In the past, it’s been displayed via a pdf file. There may be…
Rod Caborn sends us an update on the Orlando APBA League which is heading into its postseason: The Orlando APBA Association has wrapped up its 24th season with the conclusion of regular season play this past October. 10. (Face-to-face, 80 game season, three-divisions, total nine teams, five in playoffs).…
John Heneghan emailed me and told me about a modification he’s come up with for his 1965 replay. In keeping with the theme of my last post, it has to do with baserunning. In this case, it’s a way for good defensive catchers to have an effect on steals. John…
A few years back when APBA went through their board changes, our basic baseball game league made some pretty radical changes in retrospect to how we play the game. In short, we decided to play the game “out of the box” with just a few exceptions. No error chart, no…
Chris Witt contacted The APBA Blog to me know about a project he’s been working on. He’s come up with a web tool that will project or predict pitcher’s grades for any major league pitcher from 1876-2008. In his words: I snooped around, and got into contact with some…