Are you up for the Sioux Falls Shakedown?

Dave Druk is organizing the Sioux Falls Shakedown APBA baseball tournament and it has quite a lot going for it. A professional PA announcer? A raffle including $1000 worth of APBA products? Proceeds going to a worthy charity?

And wait, no cost?!

If you’re up for a new APBA tournment, you might want to consider it. Here are the details:

  • When? August 16, 2025
  • Where? Fairfield Inn & Suites Sioux Falls (SD) Airport
  • Cost? Free! Raffle tickets are $5 if you want to buy one.

The draft of teams begins soon so get in while you can.

I love this bit!

We will have Randy Preston, the Public Address Announcer for the Sioux Falls Canaries lead off the tournament by announcing everyone’s name as they trot to their seat. Also, we will have a large bucket with two oversized dice and he will do the initial roll starting the inaugural tournament. In future tournaments the Previous winner will do the inaugural shake.

You can view the full press release here but gist of the rules are that they are similar to most tournaments such as the Minnesota or Kansas City ones. If you’re interested, contact Dave.

thanks for the email, Dave! Make sure to update us when the Sioux Falls Shakedown tourney is over.

Thomas Nelshoppen

I am an IT consultant by day and an APBA media mogul by night. My passions are baseball (specifically Illini baseball), photography and of course, APBA. I have been fortunate to be part of the basic game Illowa APBA League since 1980 as well as a frequent participant of the Chicagoland APBA Tournament. I am slogging through a 1966 NL replay and hope to finish before I die.

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