When I first met Tedd some 36 years ago Tedd was hanging out in the Computer Lab at Northeastern Illinois University where I was a new student trying to figure out life. I didn’t know Tedd from Adam as the saying used to go, but Tedd immediately made me feel …
January 11, 2013 GAME 1 Chicago Champions vs Northside Hitmen Champions Tim Lincecum was matched up against Brad Penny, both starting pitchers went seven innings, with Penny up by a run when he left for a pinch hitter. Chicago scored four runs off reliever Neftali Feliz over the last two …
Mom told me when I wanted APBA Baseball for Christmas 1970 that it was just a phase I was going through, and that I’d tire of it before long. Well Mom was right! After 42 years of playing APBA Baseball, more than 35 years in the Illowa APBA League, I’ve …
Chicago Champions outfielder Grady Sizemore had a turn back the clock kind of day in a recent game against the Three Rivers Gamblers. It was the last of five games played in Three Rivers Stadium, the lineup card featured Sizemore batting eighth for the visiting Champs. Up stepped Grady in …
The Chicago Champions played games forty through sixty-three in Champaign. That left a six game SKYPE series against the Illowa APBA League reigning Champs, the Green Rock Bombers. With Papa Bunch’s work schedule and my funn schedule, our series was setup to play Friday June 29th. Of course I knew, …
The Chicago Champions were pitted against the Kentucky Kernels in May. Chicago sleepwalked through the first three games, losing all three by a combined score of 14 to 3. After dropping the first two contests, the Champions decided to shake things up by playing their kids versus Hiroki Kuroda. Kuroda …
Alex Rodriguez ended last season sitting at 599. So it was only a matter of time for the slugger to belt number 600. That time came in the 7th inning of game #2, facing Rising Bamm Beanos rookie righthander Ivan Nova. It was a solo shot, which put the Chicago …
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, …
