Reader Cam had a question regarding Baseball for Windows. How do I get my XP version ported over to Vista? I’m not a BBW user so I really couldn’t answer with much authority. My thought was that it shouldn’t matter unless BBW wasn’t Vista-compliant. Does anyone else have a good…
I pleased to see this article forwarded to me by our commish. It’s about former Illowa APBA League manager Dennis Jennings. Jennings, after eight years, has ran a marathon in all 50 states. Pretty amazing, I thought. "I don’t even know when I decided I was doing all 50…
APBA to the masses sometimes gets rolled in with the fantasy leagues ala rotisserie leagues. One difference among many, I think, is the connection to the players. The connection (at least for us board game players), comes from handling and viewing the individual player cards. Corny as that may seem.…
Not really APBA related but this article in the LA Times reports that Lancaster, Pa, home of the APBA Co, is probably the closely watched community. The town of 55,000 has some 165 closed-circuit TV cameras monitoring public areas purportedly looking for crime. Some 165 closed-circuit TV cameras soon…
I did a short post on Albert Pujols on The Baseball Zealot on how well he’s done this year in the majors with the bases loaded. It’s nothing short of amazing. For those who haven’t noticed, Albert Pujols has done amazingly well with the bases loaded this year. Here…
There’s a pretty awesome article depicting the fun of APBA (and Strat-O-Matic) baseball in USA Today. They interview a couple members of the Washington APBA Baseball League. …But they’re not at the ballpark. For that matter, they’re not watching on TV, either. It’s 10 a.m. on a Sunday morning…
The Illowa APBA League had last year’s playoffs & World Series, along with the rookie draft, and opening of the new season (30 games per team) in Naperville Illinois in March. Then most teams played an in area series (9 games) in April. This past weekend was the league’s May…
In an earlier post, I had mentioned that Dave Walker was going to take an extensive survey of APBA Leagues, asking a variety of questions about the makeup of the leagues and how they are run. The idea was to create a Directory of APBA Leagues. With Dave’s permission, I’m…
On my White Sox trivia tear-off calendar today was this, “Introduced in 1866, Sebring’s Parlor Base Ball Field was the first tabletop baseball game.” Doing some research I found an article on the Baseball Hall of Fame website, which talked about tabletop baseball games. Visit the website and you can…
After the month of April, our Illowa APBA League is 39 games into our season. As you can see my Twin City Thunderchickens are languishing in last place… We’re 15-24 and don’t see much hope of improving. But the strange thing is this… we lead the lead in…