I was contacted by Casey asking what a 1953 APBA baseball card set was worth. Before going further, I needed to know what we were talking about. Were we talking about an original 1953 or a reprint? I know APBA had reprinted the 1953 season in 1985. As some of…
Nobody calls a game like APBA Blog reader Jim Currie. Here’s his summary and play by play of a no-hitter in his BATS Tournament by some guy named Cy Young. -Tom What a way to bring 2014 to a close!…The GREAT Cy Young tosses a 3 zip no hitter against…
A little over a year ago, reader Beau Lofgren suggested Chris Bando’s 1985 card for Terrible Card Tuesday. Now, just in time for Bando’s 59th birthday on Wednesday, Beau brought his 1989 card to my attention. It’s quite the antithesis of his ‘85 card. As good as this card is,…
Kevin Burghardt is two-thirds of the way through his Great Teams of the 1970’s project. I can tell he’s having lots of fun with it from his website dedicated to the project. Kevin sent me an update for the National League (he promises me an AL update will be on…
Someone in the Illowa APBA League worked out the formula at the 2011 Draft weekend.
Wouldn’t you know it. The day after I post an article asking everyone how you evaluate players when voting for them on awards, the Illowa APBA League ballot for Hall of Fame comes out. The job for handing that lands on our vice-president, Rob Moore. He did a great summary…
The standings are final in the 2014 Illowa APBA League race… The Iowa team may be named the Oinkers but the Twin City Thunderchickens stunk it up just as much as they did. We both went 62-100 to tie for last place. Congratulations are very much due to Chuck…
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…