What is the ABA?

A new baseball league where they play with red, white, and blue balls?

No. It's a computer baseball league involving me and 13 other owners 
scattered around the country. We use APBA's Baseball for Windows 
computer simulation. I, as the Czar, run the games daily and keep owners 
apprised by posting standings, scores, and other stuff on the WWW.

Although owners draft their teams, make roster moves, and set the 
lineups and rotations, the computer managers "Duke Robinson" and 
"Riverboat Durham" call the shots on the field for 95 percent of the 
games. Some series are played head-to-head with manual managing at ABA 
headquarters when we can get folks together.

Our first season began in January 1996 and concluded that summer with 
the Hartford Big Units winning the league's first crown. Season Two 
ended in August 1997 when the San Antonio Diablos snatchied the title in 
a tense, six-game series with the Brooklyn Royal Giants.

The ABA is expanding to 14 teams for Season Three, with the addition of 
the Buffalo Wings and Alberta Dragons. A 14-round expansion draft was 
conducted in September prior to the beginning of the regular draft.

Here are some additional details about the ABA:

We have two seven-team divisions. Everyone plays everyone in the 
division 13 times and everyone in the other division 12 times.

There is no DH.

There were six no-hitters in the first two seasons of the ABA. In Season 
One, Hideo Nomo of the San Jose Hammerheads and Shane Reynolds of the 
Vancouver Waves did the trick. They were matched in Season Two by John 
Smoltz of the Manhattan Mammoths, Jimmy Key of the Washington Federals, 
Tim Belcher of the Indianapolis Atoms, and Jamie Navarro of the New 
Orleans Outlaws. No one has ever pitched a perfect game.

Check out the Rules and Regulations page for more details on player use 
restrictions, fatigue, etc.