Lefty Grove deserves a mention in this column and there’s no time like the present. Grove’s stats are amazing enough but what makes them most unbelievable is that he accomplished them in the batters’ heyday of late 20s and early 30s. When teams were scoring well over 5 runs a…
Lesson learned… always keep a neat boxscore because you never know how important the game might be. I played a Skype series against Mike Bunch for our Illowa APBA League. My Twin City Thunderchickens weren’t hitting against Mike’s Green Rock Bombers for the whole series but I certainly wasn’t prepared…
Like clockwork, fellow IAL manager Don Smith sent out a wrap-up of how the early rookie picks are doing in the majors. It’s become a tradition in the IAL for Don to post the results of the first round players but this year, he’s doing the second round as well…
Ken Heard posted an excellent list of required reading on his blog, Love, Life and APBA. The impetus for Ken was to help those of us who do replays and find good written resources to motivate us and get us in the right frame of mind for when we roll…
Take a sip of a mint julep and be prepared for a trip down retro-APBA lane. How many of you watched the Kentucky Derby this past weekend? I admit I watched it while visiting my family this past weekend. It’s amazing how much hoopla the sports media can whip up…
We haven’t had a Negro League Monster Card in a while and this one is quite worthy. This is Hall of Famer Pete Hill and this card is based on Hill’s 1910 season with the Chicago Leland Giants. Now, I raised this before with Josh Gibson’s entry but I wonder…
Geoff Schmitt has passed on the results of golf tournaments he has done. According to Geoff, this tournament was done using the APBA Golf for Windows Game with 171 golfers in each tournament. I’m posting the results of the first one. Some notes from Geoff first: The tournaments are in…
This week’s Terrible Card comes from the 1986 World Champion New York Mets. Kevin Elster was just a rookie and didn’t put in much time, only 33 plate appearances. He didn’t make much of an impact with those precious at-bats, either. In his debut, “Kev” Elster went 5 for 30…
What to do with Mike Trout? My friend Dan Velderrain contacted me and asked a favor regarding his team in the Southern California Baseball League, the Saddleback Sharks: I was wondering if you could help me…. Even though I am 20-10, I feel like I should be scoring more runs….…
This week’s MCM entry is ‘Gorgeous’ George Sisler who it turns out was a Big Ten alum, hailing from the University of Michigan (I learned something new today). This card is from the year of 1922 when he led the AL with a .420 batting average. Sisler had the privilege…