I want to wish everyone in the APBA community a Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays! I celebrate my friendships I have with so many of you. I am grateful for the tight-knit community that we have. Enjoy the holidays this year. Merry Christmas to everyone! Tom
George Vukovich hadn’t quite gotten his feet wet in the majors in the early ‘80s with Philadelphia but he did manage to come out with a pretty decent monster card in the strike-shortened 1981 season. For the year, he went 10 for 26 with a homerun and 4 rbis. He…
This is the final segment in the “2013 APBA by the Numbers” series breaking down the ratings and numbers from the newly-released disk. Today, I’ll wrap up with some miscellaneous lists. It’ll be a fun mish-mash of anything that didn’t fit into the Pitching, the Fielding or the Hitting segments…
Flashback Friday is taking a break this week from Scott Veatch’s Vault. Why? Something fantastic just fell into my lap that I couldn’t resist sharing it and it definitely fits the Flashback Friday bill. My friend Tedd Mallasch (a former manager of the Illowa APBA League and former writer of…
by Rod Caborn The Orlando APBA Association (seven teams, FTF, MG), entering its 27th season, is guaranteed a new champion in 2014. That’s because Joe Passiatore, who has won the last six OAPBA titles in a row, is stepping down to pay more attention to his legal work, as well…
This is Part 3 of my “2013 APBA by the Numbers” series. So far, I’ve already broken down the newly released disk by pitching and by fielding. Now let’s have some fun and look at the offense. I’ll look at who’s the best (and maybe the worst) at some of…
It’s been a while since we got a League Profile. John ‘Stats’ Wilson sends us one for his league, the North American Professional Baseball League. Definitely, check out the NAPBL website… lots of stuff to read especially in the newsletters section. The North American Professional Baseball League is indeed northern. …
Every week, one of you readers gives me a reason to keep Weird Card Wednesday alive. This time it was Tom Zuppa who emailed me with a card with an issue I hadn’t seen before. Tom Z. emailed a scan of his Gerald ‘Slim’ Kindall’s original 1963 card. Here’s the…
Another odd card from Scott Veach. It’s Willie Crawford from his second year in baseball with the Dodgers. Eighteen-year old Crawford hit only .148 in 27 at-bats in 1965. Without even looking it up, I can tell he was a pinch runner. He was used in 52 games and scored…
This is the second of my 5th annual “2013 By the Numbers”. I recently posted the first segment of the series centered around pitching. Now, let’s take a look at the fielding of the newly released disk. Let’s start with the best at each position. The Best of the…