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…
Andrew McCutchen: OF-3 and four solid power numbers This is the last of my 2014 APBA Baseball By the numbers series. Just a few miscellaneous categories to wrap up and some are silly and useless but fun. Honestly though, in 2014 there weren’t many strange anomalies that struck me. No…
“Terrible” Tom Zuppa comes through with this week’s Tuesday submission. It’s Dick Tracewski of the 1968 Detroit Tigers. Tom writes: “I picked up GTOP2, which included the ’68 Tigers. Most people know about Ray Oyler’s terrible .135. And I knew Detroit forced Mickey Stanley into short in the World Series…
Tulowitzki: double ones and most on-base numbers in the set Bah, pitching and defense! I’ve already written about those. Now, it’s time to talk about the 2014 Hitting numbers from the recently released APBA disk! Here are the best, the most and sometimes, the worst. Power Sluggers: These players had…
Doug Schuyler passed on this juicy (no pun intended) APBA card. It’s Dante Bichette’s APBA card of 1995. Bichette played for the Colorado Rockies in Denver where the air was thin and the balls were flying over the fence. At least, Dante’s were. He led the NL with 40 homers…
Clayton Kershaw tops all starters (again) with the only A&C grade Yesterday, I posted the first in my APBA Baseball by the Numbers series where I covered defensive ratings. Tonight though, it’s time to go over the hurlers. Who was the best? Who got lucky and got cheated out of…
Yadier Molina: Tops in the 2014 set with a C-9 and Th-6 The 2014 APBA Baseball disk is out! That means I’m crunching numbers. For the last few years, I’ve been doing an overview of the cards as it were. This year, I’ll start with the defensive ratings. I’ll break…
…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!
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…