I always enjoy looking at early cards of great stars. You know, before they came into their own. This original 1964 Joe Morgan card is a prime example. While he’s not my favorite broadcaster, I prefer to remember him as one of my favorite secondbasemen as a kid. He was…
This week, I’m thankful that Hank Aaron won the MVP Award in 1957. It would have been a shame for Hammer to go through his career without at least one. It’s appropriate that he won it with the 1957 Braves. It’s one of my favorite Braves teams of all time. …
Last weekend at the Chicago Tournament, I noticed that Jim Saska (right) was wearing his personalized APBA card name tag that the Company had given him at one of the national conventions. At the time, I remembered being given one myself. Tonight, I looked in my drawer and there it…
I finally got around to calculating the stats for my 1966 Baltimore Orioles from last week’s Chicagoland Tournament. The results weren’t all pretty. I felt that my division partner and eventual tournament winner Scott Fennessy dragged my Orioles into the deadball era with his 1905 New York Giants. In our…
Another one from Scott Veach’s vault. He’s got some good ones. This week it’s an APBA mailing notice from 1971 telling fans about the new APBA World Series Baseball Game. I can relate to this since I got a version of this game a year or two later. Twelve teams…
APBA has announced their new online version of their Baseball game, appropriately called APBA Online. In tandem with this announcement comes an additional web domain name for the company. To register, create or join a league and buy tokens to play, you can go to http://apbabaseball.com. There are plenty of…
Yes, that’s me to the right at last week’s Chicagoland Tournament. The photo is courtesy of good friend Pastor Rich Zawadzki. I have that look so I must be losing to Jim Saska. Tournament champion Scott Fennessy (on the left) has an air of confidence about him on the other…
In honor of Scott Fennessy’s win at the Chicagoland APBA Tournament, I present Theophilus Fountain “Offa” Neal of the 1905 New York Giants. Baseball Reference has his first name primarily listed as just “Offa”. I was playing my second series of our divisional at the tournament on Saturday and sitting…
I was ready to feature 1905 Christy Mathewson in honor of his MVP performance at the Chicagoland Tournament. Alas, he’s been used up. I wrote him up last year. So courtesy of Pastor Rich, it’s Rogers Hornsby visiting the Monster Card column once again. It’s his 1929 season this time,…
And to think that Scott Fennessy almost didn’t make it the Chicagoland Tournament. Scott emailed a month ago and told me he wanted to come but just couldn’t arrange transportation. I told him not to worry. We’d figure out a way. I’m glad we did. Scott had no trouble managing…