The IAL begins its 2013 season On my post about the IAL draft weekend a few days ago, Scott Fennessy (who writes the fantastic write-ups on his 1905 replay on this blog) left a comment asking “Just wanted to know how a league like this works as I have only…
Catcher Jeff Reed’s 1987 card is one I’ve heard about from a few of you. In fact, I’m sure he’s got a few strange cards (he batted .225 or lower in a season seven times). What makes Reed’s ‘87 card so unique is that this isn’t just a J-4 XB…
I took a week off from Monster Card Monday so I better make this count. I think it will. I promised Pastor Rich Zawardzki that I’d put up Willie Mays’ 1954 card. Indeed, it’s worthy of this column. This was Mays’ breakout season when he not only led the NL…
Mel M writes in with a report of a no-hitter in his 1967 replay… for the second time. Phil Ortega of the Washington Senators hurled a no-hitter today against the New York Yankees. Ortega walked two batters and one Yankee was safe on an error by shortstop Eddie Brinkman in…
Here’s another entry for The APBA Blog Dice Shaker Project. My buddy John “Brando” Brandeberry designed and crafted a new dice shaker for fellow manager Todd Ventresca and presented it to him this past weekend. Nice prize for the IAL Manager of the Year! Unlike mine which nice and hefty,…
This past weekend at the Comfort Inn in Downers Grove, the ten managers of the Illowa APBA League got together and we finished our post season for the 2012, conducted our 2013 draft and started our new season by each playing the first thirty games of the season. Here are…
In less than 12 hours, I’ll be heading up to the Chicago area for the 2013 Illowa APBA League World Series and Draft weekend. As usual, I’ll be traveling up with my cross-town buddy John Brandeberry. Brando will most likely be in more of hurry than I as he has…
With the coming of opening day, also comes the corresponding email notification from kilg.us with stats from my preset team I put in last year. I’ll admit, I was happily surprised to see that in my inbox. I didn’t even have to re-activate it. It just started back up again. …
This kind of like the tree in the forest question. What happens when a player doesn’t get a hit in a season… does he get a hit number?? When APBA published Charles ‘Chick’ Fullis’ 1930 card in 1989, they said yes. They gave him two 11s and a 10 but…
Two weeks ago, I talked about Ichiro Suzuki and how he was drafted in the Illowa APBA League’s first round along with Albert Pujols. My friend Don Smith said he would have drafted Ichiro even if Pujols was still there. Well, this is what Don would have had three years…