While visiting Jim Saska’s place after the Chicagoland APBA Tournament, I spotted this 1956 Gino Cimoli card. Cimoli was a first-year player with the Dodgers at the time and had a pretty rough start. Looking at Cimoli’s stats, the first thing that popped out at me was his usage. He…
Pastor Rich Zawadzki must have had fun playing with Carl Yastrzemski with the 1967 Red Sox in the Fall Chicagoland Tournament (though he used the original set, I believe). It’s a great card. Pastor Rich in Red Sox garb taking on Chris Witt’s 1946 version of the Red Sox In…
… in no particular order, mind you. 1. Doug Schuyler’s friendly competiveness I’ll play APBA with some people and it will be a nice relaxed game. Not with Doug. His personality brings out the most in you and you want to play your best. Fortunately, I was able to split…
Champion Cale Mannesto after winning the Fall Tournament… Congratulations to Cale Mannesto who won yesterday’s Chicagoland APBA World Series Tournament in Woodstock, Illinois. As the flashes were firing, many of us were inquiring “what’s his last name again?” for he was a newcomer to the tournament. I’m sure we won’t…
Who’s making the cut for my 1987 Chicago Cubs for this weekend’s Chicagoland APBA World Series Tournament in Woodstock, Illinois? I just sat down at a campus coffee shop and pared the team down to the 20-man roster. It wasn’t too hard to do. I’m leaving it to the original…
Bob Haider posted this most unusual card on Facebook a couple days ago. James Tabor’s 1947 card looks like it went through a blender. As Bob asks, “How many unusual things do you see in this 1947 Jim Tabor card?”. An apparent victim of a printing error, he has plenty…
This is Tony La Russa’s second visit to TCT. You can find his 1970 card here. Today it’s his rookie card from 1963 from the KC Athletics. Truth be told, it wasn’t a horrible year for La Russa batting .250 in 44 at-bats. His card just looks kind of nasty. …
In honor of this weekend’s Chicagoland APBA World Series Tournament in Woodstock, Illinois, I’m featuring outfielder Andre Dawson of my team of choice, the 1987 Chicago Cubs. I wish I could say that the “Hawk” carried the Cubs in 1987. He didn’t. The Cubs came in dead last with a…
I’ve been quietly replaying the 1961 season using APBA Baseball 5.75 Baseball for Windows. It all started with a question Scott Fennessy had about setting up leagues in BBW and I quickly set up a “test” league using the 1961 season to test my scenario. Since I had it all…
APBA Baseball gets a mention on the Chicago Tribune’s article, Best sports toys ever: What’s missing from the Hall of Fame. The National Toy Hall of Fame made their annual induction selections recently. Bubbles, Little Green Army Men and Rubik’s Cube were inducted. The Tribune listed the APBA Game as…