Northside Hitmen bats remained relatively silent as the two teams entered into their 2nd third of this nine game series. There was a 4th inning four run outburst against Greg Maddux, which tied the game at four, the Hitmen runs came courtesy of two two-run blasts one by Hunter “Under Pants”…
CLuke & I were scheduled to play the first half of our last series Wednesday night, I know the results are to be to the president by today, but that’s not going to happen. I was surprised to receive a call from CLuke on my cell, even more surprising, the…
Our Illowa APBA League season has finally come to end. On Sunday, Brando and I finished our nine game series. My Twin City Thunderchickens had gotten to a good 3-1 start the weekend before against Brando’s Rising Bamm! Beanos. Appropriately, we played his home games at his house. For my…
Probably most leagues have finished up their 2008 season. Not the IAL. We’re in our last month, fighting out the last playoff spots. Not me though… my Twin City Thunderchickens went into the month of January tied for last place with the Chicago Highlanders with an ugly 60-93 record. As…
John Briggs emailed us about his 15 team mail league, the Roberto Clemente Memorial Baseball Association. The RCMBA has been around a spell, since 1975. Six of the 15 teams in the league are based in Pennsylvania or Ohio with others in NY, KY, MI, FL, MD and even as…
Just try to tell me that the person who built these ice fishing houses (on Medicine Lake , MN) doesn’t play APBA. If not, it’s quite a coincidence. Then again, if he were an APBA fan, I suppose he would have made them all sixes. You can read about the…
The date was December 9, 2007- 13 months ago the last time the 1959 Phillies won a ball game in my 1959 replay. The date in the replay was 5/24/59 and after the Braves scored 1 run in the 11 th inning, Wally Post singling home Ed Bouchee to give…
The correct Willie Bloomquist card With every APBA card set, us APBA fans find anomalies and strangeness and wonder, “Will APBA correct this on their error list?”. So far with the 2008 baseball card set, APBA hasn’t corrected any cards with the exception of one… Seattle Mariner Willie…
Ok, here’s a league with a grade A website. The Mid-West Baseball League, mostly based out of the US Midwest, has one of the most complete and flashiest web sites I’ve seen for an APBA league. The MWBL league database goes back to 1997. They’ve documented their stats, awards, league…
Tim from Chicago sent me an email today saying he’s going to be in a tournament using seasons from 1975-2008. Long story short, he’d like to know if there is a database or listing of grade A pitchers by year. I’m pretty sure the Ed Zack book documents this but…