Champions IAL Playoffs & Draft Weekend Left Orlando on a big jet airliner at 8:00 AM, flying SWA to Midway, arrived at the Naperville Best Western after a couple of stops at 1:00 PM. Unpacked my APBA stuff & unwound, laid back & relaxed, and waited for my playoff foe …
IAL TRADES MOLLY PUTTS MARAUDERS send SS EVERTH CABRERA to the RISING BAMM BEANO’S in exchange for SS RAFAEL FURCAL. Don’t really like either player. Cabrera is younger and is likely to get older. While Furcal is older and might retire sooner. MARAUDERS 5, BAMM BEANO’S 5 – EVEN MOLLY …
2011 IAL ROOKIE DRAFT 1) GREEN ROCK BOMBERS: BUSTER POSEY – C/1B: Buster Posey can do it all! He hits for power, average, and is a great defensive catcher. 2) MOLLY PUTTS MARAUDERS: JAYSON HEYWARD OF: Heyward is a big, strong, line drive hitter, whose line drives, often times leave …
Even though there are still a couple of weeks before pitchers & catchers report for spring training, and an additional month before my beloved Illowa APBA League kicks off its season with playoffs, the World Series, the rookie draft, & the start of another season, I’ve got baseball on the …
NOTE: In 2010 Roberto Alomar was voted into the IAL Hall of Fame. Despite posting Hall of Fame statistics over his 17 year Illowa APBA League career with the Northside Hitmen, Roberto Alomar has failed for the second consecutive year to get the votes needed to get in, and there …
I have been playing APBA baseball since 1970, more than forty years, and have never reached the 100 win plateau in any format. I’ve managed the Chicago Champions in the Illowa APBA League since the 2nd season of the league, more than 35 years, and have never gotten 100 wins, …
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, …
The Chicago Champions record stood at 56-22 heading into July, mostly due to beating the teams in the West, we were below .500 (8-10) against Eastern teams. This did not bode well facing the Three Rivers Gamblers, with the most explosive lineup in the IAL. Things didn’t look good when …
Repeating is never easy, but the Champions have gotten out of the gate quickly, going for their 12th World Series Championship, and their 3rd straight first place finish. It won’t be easy, despite their 23-7 record, this team has its work cut out for them. Last year’s World Series opposition …
The drought is over, the Champs are once again Champions of the IAL. Chicago had won ten championships in the first twenty two years, then there were a dozen years (six years no playoff berth) with no rings. There were only two other years in team history when the Champs …
