On Christmas Day, the Mid-West Baseball League held their annual Christmas Classic Homerun Derby. This year, it was held in Mesa, Arizona. This year’s winner was the Tempe Tempers Chris Davis with 10 homers with Edwin Encarnacion of the Tijuana Bottle Rockets right behind him with 8 dingers. Mike Trout…
I want to wish the whole APBA community a Merry Christmas and happy holiday season. I hope you stay safe and stress-free throughout the season. Here’s hoping Santa brings you something from Alpharetta for Christmas! 66’s Tom
It’s trading season…at least for me. We’re closing in on the end of our 2014 season in the Illowa APBA League. Now that we have a good idea what the 2014 APBA baseball cards look like, managers are beginning to test the hot stove league for the coming year. The…
Not only was Tommy Matchick a teammate of last week’s Terrible Tuesday card Dick Tracewski but he was his platoon mate as well. Both by the way, were suggested by Tom Zuppa. The Tigers had it pretty bad off at short offensively, even considering it was a pitchers’ year. Tracewski’s…
Steve Ryan writes: “I believe this (Bob Seeds card) is from the 1936 Yankees and how many times does a player with a 33-1 also have three 14* on his card? Not sure if you have covered this in Monster Card Monday but it also might be worthy of a…
Remember last season in the Boys of Summer APBA League when my Urbana Locomotives won 104 games? That was fun. We had the Cy Young winner and the MVP. I even won Manager of Year for my league. That was fun, too. In the new year, the Locos are learning…
Rod Caborn’s latest project was a traditional replay concept with a twist. It was a decade replay using the Great Teams of the Past (GTOP) from the 1940s. This time however. Rod integrated players from the Negro League set into three of teams. A very interesting concept! Rod’s summary is…
APBA player Chad Holmes and I have been trading emails lately. He is a manager in the NVABL which by the way, has a pretty cool website. Chad thought it would be a good idea if I started plugging more manager openings for leagues… putting those interested in leagues with…
It’s amazingly appropriate how much of a fan base APBA still has in its original hometown of Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Joe Shaffer’s APBA baseball league called the Red Rose APBA League is based there. The RRAL has been around for a while. Since 1977 to be exact. That’s long enough to…
What is it about San Francisco relievers that lends their batting cards to being so strange? This is the card of Giants reliever Gary Lavelle of 1984. Lavelle had a typical year on the mound just missing an A* with a 2.76 ERA. But at the plate, he went 0…