Mel M is halfway through his 1967 National League replay. At the All-Star break, Mel thought he would send me a recap of the first half of the season. Clemente pacing the league with a .384 average NL standings 7/9/1967. The All-Star break 1) St. Louis Cardinals…51-34 The Cardinals…
Maybe it’s just from where I’m sitting but it seems that Michigan has a high density of APBA players. I just seem to know a lot of them from that fair state. Now, here’s a league based from there. John Modzinski just emailed the APBA Blog about the Motor City…
Scott Veatch is becoming one of my favorite contributors, I tell you. He suggested another 1969 XB, Danny Murphy of the Chicago Cubs. Pitcher Danny Murphy’s batting stats in ‘69 are quite simple. He came to bat twice and walked once. Split G PA AB R H 2B 3B HR…
Scott Veatch contributed today’s Terrible Card, 1969 Billy Grabarkewitz of the Los Angeles Dodgers. This XB card in its trademark black and white format is a most deserving entry indeed. Scott Veatch writes about Grabarkewitz: “It hurts for me to include the Billy Grabarkewitz card. I’m a Dodger fan and…
Okay, I’ll admit it. I’m sneaking in this 1930 Freddie Lindstrom card (courtesy of Pastor Rich) today because I want to include him in my Terribles vs Monsters poll for thirdabsemen. He deserves a chance to play for the big boys. His card is one of favorites from the 1930…
After a short break for league drafts, I’m back at it again with the Terribles vs Monsters polling. This time we’re voting for the Monsters’ shortstop. More info on my project here, by the way. In this poll, we have two 1980s shortstops sandwiched between a deadball era Hall of…
Mel M sends in this rather odd card. It’s Mike Ryba from the 1936 St. Louis Cardinals. It’s unusual in that Ryba is rated at both pitcher and catcher. He’s rated as a D1Y pitcher and a Catcher-5. Year Tm Lg Age Pos G GS Inn Ch PO A E…
Mel M sent me this 1936 Hal Finney card for Terrible Tuesday. I looked up his stats with Pittsburgh Pirates and did a double take. I’ll let you ponder them for a second or two… Split G GS PA AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI SB BB SO BA…
After two days with little sleep, the Illowa APBA League’s Draft weekend is over. In that time, the IAL postseason was played, we had our annual league meeting, we conducted our 2014 rookie draft and lastly, we started the 2014 season with each team playing their first 30 games of…
After many years, my friend Chuck Lucas has finished his 1959 AL replay! I posted a teaser about this on Facebook and the big question was “Did the Sox win it all”? Well, the answer is a resounding ‘Yes’! With three 20-game winners, the White Sox won it by an…