This 1950 Richie Ashburn card was posted by Tom Allshouse to the APBA Baseball group on Facebook. Thanks to Ken Schulz for bringing it to my attention. It’s a fun one. It starts out ok but once you get to 55 and you see the 7, you wonder “wait a…
I guess it’s appropriate that most of these Terrible Tuesday cards come at the beginning or at the end of player’s careers. That’s the case with this 1978 Tony Muser card. It’s at the tail end of his nine year career when he finished up with the Brewers. In 1978,…
Pastor Rich brings us this Monster Willie Mays card of 1965. 1965 was about midway through Willie Mays’ career/ In terms of his offensive value though, Mays’ first part of his career was definitely his salad days. He hit 481 of his 660 homers before the 1966 season. In 1965,…
I want to say congratulations and well done! Congratulations to John Roels who won the Greater Michigan APBA Baseball Tournament championship last weekend. He took the 1937 New York Yankees and defeated a host of worthy teams. That included Chris Baier’s 2006 Tigers in the final game. Nice going, John! …
Browsing through my 1987 set, I ran across Buddy Biancalana. He was in the Houston Astros envelope but as it turns out, he split the season with the Kansas City Royals in his last year in the majors. Now Buddy went 1 for 2 in his first year in the…
Even in the midst of hosting the Greater Michigan APBA Baseball Tournament, Pastor Rich Zawadzki had time to forward this card to me. Rich acknowledged that while I’ve posted plenty of Monster Babe Ruth cards before (he’s right, there are five), this one is worth a look. Indeed it is. …
Neil Leininger of the Lame Duck Baseball Association sends us the first round results of their 35th rookie draft which took place on March 7th. 1. Abreu 2. Boegarts 3. Soler 4. Springer 5. D. Santana 6. Betts 7. Ventura 8. deGrom 9. Betances 10. McHugh 11. R. Castillo 12.…
I’ve been seeing some posts on social media about Rich Zawadski’s Greater Michigan Baseball Tournament roll by. It seems like Rich has really pulled off a fun event! I really am sorry I didn’t go. Next time, Rich! While I’m waiting for the full report from the tournament, I’ve been…
Joe Liss posted this 1973 Don McMahon card on Facebook recently. Now, it’s definitely a Monster card with a total of eighteen hit numbers based on his 1 for 1 performance for the San Francisco Giants. To me, it’s also a little strange since the card has four nines. Almost…
Congratulations to Joe Auletta! His Brobdingnag Barbarians took the Transcontinental Baseball League championship two weekends ago. It took some doing though. His Barbarians had to defeat the Midwest Mongrels in Game 7 in a 12 inning battle. Below is Joe’s write up of Game Seven forwarded to me by Stephen…