Time for Prairie Ball

Urbana, Illinois will host the 1st Praireland APBA Baseball Tournament.

My friend Thomas Nelshoppen will be hosting the first ever Prairieland APBA Baseball Tournament in Urbana, Illinois. This year's event landed 16 participants, which is pretty dang good for a first tournament turn-out.

I first formed a friendship with Tom through his blog (The APBA Blog) and APBA Facebook Group, and officially got to meet him in person at the Chicagoland World Series (Winter Edition) in November 2013. There is no better guy to host such a event -- he is to the APBA community as Lou Gehrig was to the New York Yankeees... Seriously? Why is this guy not in the APBA Baseball Hall of Fame already?!

I do want to say that others are playing significant roles in hosting the event as well, as in my friend Thomas Fulton (who were looking for a replacement at press time - due to an unfortunate death in the family).

The division names are based on local heroes of close-by hometowns; The Divisions are as follows, with the following teams...

The 1st Prairieland APBA Baseball Tournament takes place this upcoming Saturday (April 16th)!

Good luck to Tom & all the guys participating, I know a few of the others as well, and they know as well as I do how fun these events can be!

Have fun, boys!