Darren Schulz sends an LBS tourney recap! With a new LBS record of 50 managers in attendance, the divisional round-robin formatallowed for no wild card entries in 2024. Win your division and you are in the Elite 8 of teamsfrom 1940-1999 with a winning percentage of .550 or under. When…
Saturday was quite a day! Fifty APBA fans from all over the Midwest region congregated at the Am-Vets Post in Wheeling, Illinois to see who would come out ahead. It’s hard to believe that the first Chicagoland tourney was just a few guys getting together and playing some APBA. Now,…
What a great day for an APBA Baseball Tournament! Eleven players played in the 1st Annual Toronto APBA Baseball Classic!
I heard from my friend Bob Eller who I haven’t seen in a while. He and Jim Saska went to highly awaited Ed Zack Memorial Tournament. Bob sent this report and provided a couple photos! Two Chicagoland APBA Tournament veterans were among 20 players at the Ed Zack Memorial Tournament…
[Update: There has been a change in the date and location.] There’s a new tourney in town! This spring, Bob Winenger is going live with a new tournament in South Bend, Indiana. Here are the quick details: When: June 1, 2024, 9am Where: Centre Township Library 1150 Kern Road, South…
LBS IX left those in attendance at the Slippery Rock Township Building in awe as two APBA Hall-of-Famers put on a nail-biting, edge-of-your-seat show in the finale!
Seems like so many tourneys are happening these days! Tony Stevens contacted me with another opportunity to get involved. This one is a nationwide APBA GO tourney. This is what he sent me. Another Month, Another APBA Tournament. Well another tournament attended and played. One bottom of the 9th dice roll…
Jim Saska sent me a recap of the 2023 Old Dominion APBA Baseball Tournament held on October 14th Jim writes: On a rainy and overcast Saturday(October 14th), the 2023 Old Dominion APBA Baseball tournament got underway in Hopewell, Virginia. 22 managers from five different states participated. The theme of this…
Jim Saska, who was the organizer of the first Chicagoland tournament I attended, writes to tout his upcoming tourney in the Richmond, Virginia area. Since his Chicagoland days, Jim has started his own tourney back east and it is going strong. Jim writes: “We are three weeks away from the team…
Last Saturday was the famed Chicagoland Summer APBA Baseball Tournament. Normally, I would have been in attendance but it’s been a busy summer and a hundred things got in the way. I sure missed seeing everyone. I’ll bet Butch Newton is glad he made it. Butch’s 1973 Atlanta Braves went…