If you’re desperate for some 2013 APBA Baseball card ratings for the upcoming set, you can browse to this page at rolz.org and get a dose to tide you over. Fair warning, you will have to wade through a lot of extraneous text. Thanks to Phil Grabar who posted the…
I have to admit when Scott Veatch sent this to me I was initially surprised. I was thinking, “Dolph Camilli was a C-6?”. But no, this is Dolph’s son Doug. The font on this 1963 card should have been a giveaway. It’s still a good Terrible Tuesday card nonetheless. Doug…
I’m wondering if there is something going on with Baseball-Reference’s “the” feature. Or more precisely, maybe it’s just being gamed. For those not familiar with this fun feature, it works like this: In the search bar, you can type in “the” proceeded by a portion of a player’s name. Baseball…
Keep an eye on BTL! Word has it on the Delphi APBA Between the Lines forum that the APBA Baseball disks are on the way and one customer even received his already. Of course, that means a lot to the APBA Baseball community. With the disk release, that means we…
It’s about time to put this card up on Monday. It’s Roger Maris’ record-breaking 1961 card for the Yankees. That was the year, of course, he overtook Mickey Mantle in the race for the homerun title and ended up breaking Babe Ruth’s all-time record with 61. Aside from leading the…
Rod Caborn emails us about the futile attempt of the rest of the OAPBA League in keeping Joe Passiatore down. Passiatore’s Platoon won their sixth straight OAPBA title. Rod reports: Joe Passiatore’s Platoon (44-36) battled their way to their sixth consecutive OAPBA title in 2013, rebounding from a horrible start…
This contribution from Scott Veatch’s vault is quite a treat. Released in 1965, it’s a sleek, colorful brochure touting the fun you can have with APBA Football. This engaging piece uses catchy phrases like “Now The Pro League Comes To You” and “The Passing Averages Are Unbelievably Similar” and “Every…
Weird Card Wednesday? Yeah, don’t get used to it. It’s probably a one time thing (unless y’all help out). When two people email me about an APBA card in two days, I guess it’s worthy of posting about. Both Steve Ryan and Jerry Hill contacted me asking me if I’ve…
I’m throwing this out to those in APBA leagues for any helpful input. Our league (10 team, F-T-F. Basic Game Baseball) is now entertaining a proposal to allow in-season trades which would start next year if passed. To date, we have never allowed trades during the season. Mostly, I think…
Courtesy of Scott Veatch, here is Chicago Cub Randy Bobb’s 1968 APBA card. I was only four years old at the time but I was a little surprised that I hadn’t heard of this Northside catcher. Then again, manager Leo Durocher had a penchant for overusing Randy Hundley behind the…