Harry Hamels nominated 1981 Bill North for Weird Card Wednesday on the APBA Baseball Facebook group. He counts a total of 34 asterisks on North’s card (I’ll take his word for it :) ). With the Giants, it was Bill North’s last year in the majors. While hitting only .221,…
Bob Gordon suggested this 1979 Rudy Meoli card a long time ago. I’m finally getting around to using it. Meoli was your typical 1970s no-hit infielder only more so. With the Angels, Cubs and Phillies, he played second, third and short but never hit over .250. In fact, in his…
There are a couple of big tournaments in the Midwest coming up. Pastor Rich’s 1st Annual Greater Michigan APBA Baseball Basic Tournament is just around the corner and if you want to get in on it, now’s your chance. Pastor Rich says there are already teams slotted for the tourney!…
In light of last week’s Hall of Fame balloting, here’s Pedro Martinez’ 1999 APBA card. Between 1997-2003, P.J. Martinez had a string of seven outstanding years (with the possible exception of his injury-plagued 2001 season). In that time, he went 118-36 with a 2.20 ERA and struck out 1761 batters…
Some news of interest came via the APBA Newsletter in this first week of the year. Of biggest importance, the 2014 baseball cards are shipping. I know a lot of you have already gotten them. For those who haven’t, the APBA Company says to watch your credit card account. They…
Yesterday, I posted a 1987 catcher for Terrible Tuesday. Today, how about another one from the same year for Weird Wednesday? This time, it’s Ron Karkovice, who played all twelve seasons of his career with the Chicago White Sox. In 1987, Karko actually batted lower than yesterday’s Joel Skinner with…
I always like to hear about leagues that remember their history. The Mid-West Baseball League is doing just that. Stray Corrado contacted me to announce the MWBL Hall of Fame Class of 2015. In 2015, the league inducted players Barry Bonds, Roger Clemens and Randy Johnson. Joining those three is…
Joel Skinner, son of former Pirate All-Star Bob Skinner from the 1960s, never hit a whole a lot in his nine years in the majors. Overall, he had a career .228 batting average with 17 homers. In 1987 though, his prowess with the bat was at a low. For the…
From Pastor Rich’s collection, this is Luke Appling’s 1936 APBA card. Appling hit over .300 nine times in a row (1933-1941) and with one year break, he did six times in row after that (1943, 1945-1949 and give him some credit for serving his country in 1944, too). In fact,…
For a while now, I have been trying to find someone to write about APBA Hockey. Enter Robert Mosher, fellow Boys of Summer APBA League manager. He picked up the game and playing regularly. Once I saw him posting about it on Facebook, I asked him if he was willing…