Ok, bear with me. I’m new to APBA Football. Despite not being too up on the NFL as I mentioned in last night’s article, I do know who Peyton Manning is so he must be pretty good, right? Indeed he is. For the Denver Broncos, Manning had one of best…
Through one quarter, Manning has the Broncos up 9-3 Paging Geoff Giordano… Paging Geoff Giordano. When Tom Zuppa and I both asked what everyone was getting at APBA’s Black Friday Deals sale, there was a lot of responses. Well, my package from APBA Black Friday arrived yesterday. I ordered the…
Stray Corrado tells me that the Mid-west Baseball League is announcing the continuation of their holiday tradition of the MWBL Christmas Classic Home Run Derby. The 2014 Christmas Classic will be held at HoHoKam Park in Honolulu, Hawaii. It’s becoming a tradition now it seems with the Mid-West League as…
It seems I keep hearing from more and more APBA fans from Wisconsin. Tom Kohn writes in from Appleton, Wisconsin about his league called the Hog Dog Brandt Memorial Baseball League. The Hog Doggers use the Master Game which I think is starting to make a slight comeback in the…
When I first saw this 1984 Jose Oquendo card, the snarky voice inside my head said, “but wait, he only plays one position”. This Oquendo card looks a little weak at first glance but factor in the speed numbers and it’s not too terrible. Add in his pretty good defense,…
Just look at this card. Even one look at it and you can tell it’s a Terrible Tuesday card. Look out or I’ll continue using this awful pun! This is Dean Look from the 1961 White Sox. I ran across him as I took over the Sox in my BBW…
During the recent Chicagoland Tournament, I went poking around in Pastor Rich’s box of APBA cards and dug this one up. It’s a winner. Harry “Slug” Heilmann’s card from 1923 is one of the best. Heilmann managed to slug .632 (the stats differ depending on the source) for the Detroit…
This is a first. In my day we had church softball leagues and church volleyball leagues. Matt Waterstone wrote me about his church-based APBA baseball league. The First Reformed Church in South Holland, Illinois has a league which has been around off and on since 1981. Matt says it is…
So what did you all get during the APBA Company’s Black Friday Sale? Tom Zuppa has a running thread on Facebook with quite a lot of responses already. Me? I was with family over the holiday. While my wife and daughter were shopping at the brick-and-mortar stores, I simply used…
I want to wish everyone a happy and safe Thanksgiving this year. This blog has done a lot to bring me closer to people who enjoy the game of APBA and share the love of sports and its history. Not only that, you have all broadened my scope of how…