The ink on the 2010 APBA baseball cards was barely dry when the O.Z APBA Baseball League started their draft on January 15. They were one of the first leagues to hold their draft in 2011. Dom Provisiero, manager of the Ozone Outlaws and member of the league since 1982,…
Chris W, who recently started up with APBA after a long hiatus, wrote in with a rather thought provoking email regarding pitching grade distribution: I’m 7 games into a season and it’s been fun to dive back in. I guess another question has come up as I’ve started playing,…
Despite posting Hall of Fame statistics over his 17 year Illowa APBA League career with the Northside Hitmen, Roberto Alomar has failed for the second consecutive year to get the votes needed to get in, and there can only be one reason for keeping him out. The Northside Hitmen…
I have been playing APBA baseball since 1970, more than forty years, and have never reached the 100 win plateau in any format. I’ve managed the Chicago Champions in the Illowa APBA League since the 2nd season of the league, more than 35 years, and have never gotten 100 wins,…
This isn’t strictly APBA related (unless you are replaying a ‘50s AL season maybe) but a lot of you might find it interesting especially if you are baseball history fanatics. Last night, Orestes ‘Minnie’ Minoso was on the campus of the University of Illinois and I got a chance to…
APBA’s rival tabletop sports gaming company, Strat-O-Matic will be celebrating its 50th birthday this year. Tom Van Riper of Forbes has a nice article on SOM. His first paragraph pretty much sums up why many of us tabletop sports fans play the game. Why do all we sports fans…
Recently, I got into an email discussion with Brian C of the Bridesburg Boys and Girls Baseball Baseball League about replays and such. The topic of canonical standards for replays came up. What is considered a REAL replay? My answer simply was that any replay that the player does that…
The APBA Blog has a Facebook page now. Those of you who use use the social networking website can now join us. There is much potential for this, I suppose but the main advantage of this is that those of you on Facebook will get notifications whenever The APBA Blog…
Well last week, I broke down pitching for the 2010 APBA Baseball Card set and a few days ago I did a similar article on fielding. It is time to look at hitting. I have to admit this was a lot more complicated and even more fun (offense always is). …
A few days ago, I delved into the pitchers of the 2010 APBA baseball season, breaking them down by the numbers. Today for our next installment of “2010 by the numbers”, we’ll switch gears and take a look at fielding. Some surprises maybe only because I haven’t looked at them…