APBA Regional Tournament Schedule
Last updated 8/19/2025
CALL FOR 2025 TOURNAMENT ANNOUNCEMENTS
Regional Tournament announcements through 2025 are now being accepted. Please submit your tournament information to Randy Coryer at apba66nyslp@yahoo.com.
Please keep the announcement to 150 words or less and include the tournament date, name, location, theme, price, any deadlines or restrictions, and tournament director contact information.
Submissions over 200 words will be returned for editing.
Only links to tournament web sites and email addresses will be posted – no links to YouTube videos or individual documents.
2025 SCHEDULE
The APBA Regional Tournament 2025 schedule is as follows. Please mark your calendar accordingly and be sure to attend and participate in one of these fine events. You will not regret the experience of face-to-face gaming and tournament play.
Saturday, August 23, 2025 – 10th Annual Glass City APBA Baseball Tournament, Maumee, Ohio. The tournament will be held at the Maumee-Bowling Green Elks Lodge #1850, 137 W Wayne Street, Maumee, Ohio 43537 starting at 9 am. The cost is $20 and the theme is MVP and/or Cy Young Award winners. Your team must be from 1921 to present (excluding 1981, 1994, and 2020) and have an MVP and/or Cy Young Award winner on the team. A random draft order for team selection will be held June 1st with team selection to follow. The DH and 3-man rotations will be used. If interested, or for a copy of the rules, please contact either Ron Emch at rce@emcher.com, Norm at drzacu@yahoo.com, or Zach at zzavela@gmail.com.
Saturday and Sunday, August 23-24, 2025 – APBA Football Club at the Pro Football Hall of Fame, Canton, Ohio. All Football gaming platforms (all eras, leagues, U.S., Canadian, NFL, NCAA, WFL, USFL, etc.) are welcome and encouraged to attend. Gaming hours will be 9 am to 7 pm daily. The cost is $75 per day or $150 for both days. Lunch is included both days and a museum discount of 20% will be offered. Advance registration is required and PayPal payment is to be made to halloffametournaments@gmail.com, using the friends and family option please. The host hotel will be Hampton Inn & Suites, 5256 Broadmoor Circle NW, Canton, Ohio (phone: 330-491-4335). The special hotel reservation link is here ($139/night). No official tournaments or rules have been established as of May 16. To register or for additional information, please contact Geoff Giordano at geoffgio@verizon.net or apbafootballcluboriginal@gmail.com.
Saturday, September 13, 2025 – The Old Dominion APBA Baseball Tournament, Hopewell, Virginia. The 2025 Old Dominion Tournament will take place at The Woodlawn Presbyterian Church, 1201 Blackstone Avenue, Hopewell, Virginia 23860. The theme of the tournament is any non-World Series winning team from 1920 through 1969. GTOP teams and the 1930 St. Louis Cardinals are ineligible. A team draft will be held on Saturday, August 2 via e-mail. The cost to participate is $25, which will cover the rental of the facility, lunch, and prizes. The tournament fee is due by August 1 in order to participate in the team draft. For additional information and/or questions, please feel free to contact Jim Saska at jamessaska@gmail.com.
Saturday, October 4, 2025 - The Twin Cities APBA Baseball Tournament (TCABT) XXIV will be held in Shakopee, Minnesota. The event will be at the Shakopee Youth Building at Lions Park, 1099 Adams Street South, Shakopee, Minnesota 55379. The entry fee is $25 (pays for site rental and APBA Gift Certificates for top finishers). Team selection is now in full swing. The tournament director is Jim Fraasch and he may be contacted at jwfraasch@gmail.com for additional information on payment, team selection, and tournament rules.
Saturday, October 25, 2025 – The Linda B. Schulz Memorial APBA Baseball Tournament (LBS XI), Slippery Rock, Pennsylvania. The LBS Tournament will be held at the Slippery Rock Township Building in Slippery Rock, PA, with a theme that includes non-retired tournament teams from 1901-1939 (no Federal League teams) and 2000-2024 (no 2020 teams) that had a .550 winning percentage or under. The price is $25.00 which includes lunch, awards, venue, and any other tournament fees. All leftover monies are donated to the American Diabetes Association in honor of Linda Schulz. If interested, please contact Ken Schulz at schulzka02@yahoo.com or Darren Schulz at dcs1700@yahoo.com with your contact information and team selection.
Saturday, October 25, 2025 – RollAPBAlooza Carolina Style, Bluffton, South Carolina – The tournament will be held at The Okatie Ale House, 25 William Pope Drive, Bluffton, SC 29909. The tournament theme is “The Mad Bum Years” honoring Hickory, NC native son Madison Bumgarner. Team selection can be any team from Mad Bum’s playing years 2009 through 2023, except 2020. The tournament entry fee is $10 and includes lunch and bottled water. Hurricane Jim Cicilia’s admission is free after barely surviving Hurricane Helene while traveling to the last RollAPBAlooza tournament. If interested, please contact one of the Tournament Directors: Rodney Woodward (rodwoodhhi@gmail.com), Marty Benjamin (martymvw@gmail.com), or Tony Stevens (APBATony@gmail.com) to register, for further information, or for a copy of the tournament rules.
Saturday, November 8, 2025 – The 2025 DVAL Tournament, Wilmington, Delaware. The tournament will be held at The Concordia Lutheran Church, 3003 Silverside Road, Wilmington, DE 19810. Teams available include 1946 to present excluding 1981, 1994, and 2020 teams. Previous winners are not eligible (1968 Tigers, 1969 Orioles, 1984 Tigers, and 2017 Nationals). If you would like to use a team you do not own, the tournament director will gladly lend you the team for the day of the tournament. Team selection is FIRST COME, FIRST SERVED, so if you plan to play, get your team selection in as soon as you can. If you plan to attend or if you have questions, please contact Dick Moore at moore315@comcast.net.
THE GRAND SLAM OF SOUTHERN REGIONALS!
This is a free and additional add-on contest where the APBA player accumulates wins from across all four of the southern APBA baseball tournament regionals.
The four Southern APBA Regionals in 2025 will be:
1) Charlie Fouche’s Chattanooga Shoot-Out (02/2025) in Chattanooga, TN
2) Shoeless Joe Jackson Dead Ball Tournament (08/2025) in Greenville, SC
3) Old Dominion Tournament (09/2025)
4) RollAPBAlooza: The Madison Bumgarner Seasons (omit the 2020 season) (10/2025) moving to beautiful Bluffton, SC (hoping no hurricane this time)
2026 SCHEDULE
Thursday, January 1, 2026 – The Player’s Memorial Tournament (formerly Thx for the Memories Tournament) – Any team from 1944 to 2016 that has a carded player that passed away in the calendar year 2025 is eligible. Players include Chet Lemon, Rich Dauer, Octavio Dotel, and others. Play is conducted using a video application. A Zoom account is available so that you are able to play uninterrupted. The entry fee is $5. The tournament winner gets a coffee mug with the APBA card of his or her choice player. Please contact Tony Stevens at APBATony@gmail.com for more details.
