APBA Card: Who am I? Winter edition

6 Comments:

1. 

   Steve Stein

   February 2, 2009 at 7:25 pm

   Is it a somewhat over-carded Craig Nettles ’76? (This is another set I don’t have, so I don’t know for sure.)

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2. 

   Steve Stein

   February 2, 2009 at 7:27 pm

   err, make that Graig Nettles. How soon we forget.

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3. 

   The Baseball Zealot

   February 2, 2009 at 9:49 pm

   dang, I gotta make these harder… 76 Graig Nettles it is..

   maybe if I blocked out some of the numbers too.

   /half kidding

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4. 

   The Baseball Zealot

   February 2, 2009 at 10:02 pm

   re being over-carded, his BA should come out about right. a little over .250 (act .254) if my APBA skillz are any good.

   XBH Power is a bit up, though.

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5. 

   Steve Stein

   February 3, 2009 at 6:47 am

   BZ, yeah, that’s what I meant by “overcarded”. He’s gonna get about 3 more doubles out of this card than in real life.

   These are pretty easy to figure when the 12 is on an “unusual” number. ’76 may be the only year made in this font with the 12 on 56.

   You can figure out the position by the rare play number(s). Then you can use the card computer, filling in stats, to get a card with the right hit/walk/power numbers, and see what that gives you for Avg/OBP/Slg. Go on over to mlb.com for the particular year and position, sort by Slg, and the likely player or two becomes apparent. Then you can use baseball-reference.com to check the height and weight, just to be sure.

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6. 

   The Baseball Zealot

   February 3, 2009 at 10:54 pm

   I’ll try to figure out a way to make it harder. Maybe leave in only a few numbers. Then you would only have the font to go on.

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