My friend John Brandeberry is replaying the 1938 season using the APBA Basic Game. He just emailed me the results of Johnny Vander Meer’s two consecutive starts in which he no-hit his opponents. Vander Meer didn’t quite live up to reality but he gave it a good shot. 6-11-38…
This 1940 Wally Berger card, submitted by Ken Schulz via Facebook, looks like someone threw the numbers into blender. It’s obviously a data or printer error. But if you look closer, there you can make some sense of it. The bottom four rows seem to be correct. As for the…
I’d like some input from APBA Blog readers so I’m going to solicit some feedback. The Boys of Summer APBA Online League is coming up on their All-Star break so we were asked to fill out the BoS All-Star ballot. Coincidentally, the Illowa APBA League is just finishing up their…
This is another interesting case study from my 1966 replay. It’s Houston catcher Dave Adlesh. Adlesh didn’t get on base in 1966. In six plate appearances, he only hit the ball twice all year. He struck out four times, popped out and hit a fly out. Split G PA AB…
When I wake up in the morning, I feel like a billionaire without paying taxes. –Ernie Banks My friends probably know I don’t get very sentimental when comes to the deaths of celebrities or athletes. I’m just that kind of guy. But then Ron Santo passed on five years ago…
Check out this nifty production put together by Stray Corrado of the Mid-West Baseball League. It’s a video exhibit for the league’s Hall of Fame depicting the prowess of the Chicago Mobsters’ “Super Seven” as they are dubbed. The video features players Chipper Jones, Ivan Rodriguez, C.C. Sabathia, Billy Wagner,…
Jason Kipnis: Chicken of the Year Homer Bailey: Chicken Hurler of the Year Well, the Twin City Thunderchickens’ 2014 season is over in the Illowa APBA League. By over, I mean no, we’re not making the playoffs next month. As if we had a chance. With our 62-100 record, we’ll…
I decided to post this week’s Throwback Thursday photo to the blog instead of directly to Facebook. I just wanted Jim Saska to see it since he is the subject of it. Jim sent me this awesome 1980 photo of himself. Yes, the indubitably reliable organizer of the Chicagoland APBA…
Courtesy of Keith Reifsnyder who posted this on Facebook, this 2008 Willie Bloomquist card is weird enough with a total of twenty-three 11s in the second column. But look closely at the 51 and you’ll see that he should actually have twenty-four. He has a 51-9-1. It’s an odd place…
Bob Hadier posted this 1947 Gil Coan card on Facebook. What a card and honestly, what a performance in an admittedly limited season. For the Senators, Coan batted .500 in 1947. He didn’t go 1 for 2 or 3 for 6 or anything like that. No, Coan collected 21 hits…