Barry Larkin Shortstop inducted in 2011 Barry Larkin was a part of the postseason eight years, three times with his teams finishing 1st. With the Hitmen he really put himself on the map in 1992, batting .361, with 27 HRs, 101 RBIs, & 99 runs scored. Interestingly he only batted …
Frank Thomas Firstbaseman inducted in 2011 The Big Hurt has to be one of the most appropriate nickname a ballplayer ever had, because Frank Thomas always put a big hurt on the baseball. In 1995 with the Dreamteam, he had one of the best seasons a player could dream of, …
Rookie players Player Team Pos G AB C 1B 2B 3B SS OF Freeman F ATL 1B 157 571 0 156 0 0 0 0 Trumbo M LAA 1B 149 539 0 149 0 0 0 11 Hosmer E KC 1B 128 523 0 127 0 0 0 0 …
Mike’s dog has as big an appetite as he does :) Brando and I went to the lovely town of Colona to both play Papa Bunch and son on Saturday. In both series, our team got off to a good start but ended up on a losing note. We ended …
Greg Maddux inducted in 2011 Greg Maddux was inducted into the IAL Hall of Fame. He finished his career with a record of 354 wins versus 232 losses. Besides leading all time in wins, Greg also tops the charts in starts 749, complete games 193, 63 shutouts, and innings pitched …
Tom Glavine inducted in 2011 Tom Glavine had a pretty unexciting start in the Illowa APBA League. Winning just two games in his first years, I’m not sure anyone paid much attention to him. After a ten-win season in his third season in 1990, his trade value was as high …
During the All-Star weekend, Tedd mentioned to me that the IAL Player Register was one year out of date. So I got on it. It’s now updated with 2010 stats. While I was doing that, I thought I do the all-time leaderboards which is a fun for me. Here is …
The Champions losing streak reached ten games after losing the 1st game in Kentucky. Keith’s Kentucky Kernels had to wait in their kar for the Armageddon rain to stop. Smitty stayed ahead of the storm all the way from St. Charles, but an accident by Kimball enabled the storm to …
I’m writing this on APBA Day, 6/6/11, Happy APBA Day to you all! Three times a year the Illowa APBA League gets together, as a whole, twice in Naperville & once in Champaign. This is when the Chicago teams play the out of Chicago teams. I needed to get back …
Decided to fly to Pittsburgh to take on Todd Ventresca’s Gamblers. Because Todd couldn’t make it to Chicago for the IAL Playoff & Draft weekend in March, it seemed like the thing to do. On Friday after Todd picked me up from the airport & I checked into the motel, …
