Early APBA Records
Are they believable?
Early APBA Records
Here’s an interesting blast from the past. This comes from the December 1967 edition of The APBA Journal, the third one ever printed:
This is attributed to Ron Wasserman, who claims in the same article that the 1927 Yankees never produced well for him, and that teams that hit well tend to be overrated. I suppose we should take these “records” with a grain of salt in that case.
However — 122.3 seconds for a complete APBA game sounds impossible to me. That’s a hair over 2 minutes. 143 seconds also seems impossibly fast.
62 games in one day also seems an utter absurdity to me. Are you even paying attention at that point?
Do you think these “records” are plausible?
62 eight-to-ten minute games in a day? That certainly seems possible. A two-minute game? If that's what you're going for -- all the cards memorized, no double columns, no substitutions or strategy -- a dice roll every two seconds (60 in two minutes) does sound physically possible to me. I suppose if you rolled five sets of dice at the start of an inning, that might make it easier. (Or used a random number sheet, though I'm not sure how easy it was to get those in 1967. If the first three numbers on the page were, say, 52, 46 and 14, you could probably play that half-inning in three seconds.)
Kinda hard to believe.