I was reading a post on The Hardball Times which dealt with the issue of the designated hitter and lo and behold, in the comments below it, I saw APBA mentioned: I am 67 years old 60 years a baseball fan not only do I hate the dh,but my…
The official carded players list for the 2010 season has just recently came out and is posted on the APBA Company’s website. For the managers in our (ten-team keeper) league, it’s a last ditch effort to maybe get one more rookie pick for the upcoming 2011 draft. Let me explain……
It’s getting to that time of APBA league season for some managers. They see the writing on the wall for the current year and start looking forward to next year. The MLB season is wrapping up and they know what kind of players they should expect for the coming year…
For those college baseball fans like me, there’s good news. Steve Guthrie has come out with the 2010 NCAA Baseball card sets! These cards are based on the Brian Davis Card Generator. You can download your favorite team or up to 150 teams from Steve’s website. Thanks to Chuck for…
It wasn’t much of a game (if you were a South Division manager, at least). You could blame the manager. You could blame the players. But when it came down to it, we couldn’t roll the dice. In the Illowa APBA League annual All-Star Game this past weekend, the South…
September 17-19 is the Illowa APBA League’s All-Star Weekend. Managers began spilling in to the Best Western at Naperville, Illinois this Friday afternoon. Aside from playing the All-Star Game, we get some IAL regular season games, too. I took timeout from socializing and playing games to snap a couple shots.…
Manager Lucas brought his Northside Hitmen over to Crackerjack Park adding another chapter in the ongoing battle of APBA that has been going on for decades. Being a History Major, Luke remembered one of the first times he came to my place to play shum APBA, it was circa 1977,…
My Thunderchickens and I took on the Green Rock Bombers skippered by our commissioner, Mike Bunch. Time was running out this month and neither of us could make the trip so we played by Skype. It was an unexciting series for me for the most part… we just couldn’t runs. …
These three pitchers were no doubt cheated out of a better grade by APBA: 1990 Jose DeJesus DW 7 wins, 3.74 ERA, 22 starts, 130 IP 1979 Steve Busby DW 6 wins, 3.63 ERA, 22 games, 12 starts, 94.1 IP 1937 Spud Chandler D 7 wins, 2.84 ERA, 12 games,…
Upperdecker manager Marcus Bunch takes on John Brandeberry’s Rising Bamm! Beanos Pardon me if I rant about my team’s performance today, See, my Twin City Thunderchickens took on the Moline Upperdeckers managed by Marcus Bunch. He came all the way down to Urbana to play two nine-game series; one against…