Sorry, no Terrible Card Tuesday today…
…but enjoy this photo of a dubious Doug Schuyler shaking the hand of Clark Eichman at the November tournament. Watch out! Doug sucks out your will to win when he shakes your hand!
Monster Card Monday: 2013 Peyton Manning
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…
What’s this? APBA Football?
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…
MWBL continuing Christmas Classic Home Run Derby tradition
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…
League Profile: The Hog Dog Brandt Memorial Baseball League
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…
Weird Wednesday Card: 1984 Jose Oquendo
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,…
Terrible Card Tuesday: 1961 Dean Look
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…
Monster Card Monday: 1923 Harry Heilmann
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…
League Profile: First Reformed Church League
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…
APBA’s Black Friday sale: What did YOU get?
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…