I don’t mean to pick on Manny Mota, really. He’s one of my favorite historical baseball players. But his rookie card from 1962 is not much to write home about. The above card is the reprint edition published in 1989. In ‘62, Mota went 13 for 74 for a .176…
Neil Leininger tells me that the Lame Duck Baseball Association has concluded its 2013 draft. You can find the results on the LDBA website. The top five picks were: Bryce Harper, Vancouver Brandon Moss, Georgia Will Middlebrooks, Mc/SCity/Pembroke Cespedes, Yoenis, Sioux City Manny Machado, New Bosox Good luck to LDBA…
In honor of Joe Mauer’s 2 for 4 performance in Team USA’s win over Canada in the World Baseball Classic yesterday, here is his 2009 APBA card. A St Paul native, Minnesota Twin Joe Mauer has played for his hometown crowd the last nine years. In 2009, everything clicked…
Many of the APBA Baseball leagues have already conducted their 2013 drafts. Not me league. The Illowa APBA League is having ours very late this year. No fear, the IAL postseason/draft weekend is soon approaching. We plan to meet up in the first weekend of April in Downers Grove, Illinois. …
I know what you’re thinking. This isn’t a Terrible Card, not really. It’s kind of a Monster Card for two numbers and then goes to crap. You have to admit Lee Smith’s card from IS a weird one and probably shows the biggest drop off from power to practically nothing. …
Joe Vance pitched for just three years in the American League in the mid-30s. Not really that well either. However in his last year in 1938, his bat made some noise. In the four trips to the plate, he hit safely in three of them including two doubles. Joe even…
In the past few days, reader Bill Ferguson and I have been discussing the finer aspects of APBA’s methods of grading pitchers via email. It’s been very interesting and we thought we would share some snippets of our conversation to open it up to the larger community since I know…
Brian Hey emailed The APBA Blog to update us on The APBA Patriot League. Most notably, they have a new website! I was just having fun going through their career leaders. Like in our league, Maddux is the all-time leader in wins. Happy to see Mr Glavine 2nd, too! Great…
This week’s Terrible Card is from 1934 and belongs to Herman ‘Flea’ Clifton. So named, I suppose, because of light weight of 160 pounds. His hitting was a bit lightweight too. He hit .063 (1 for 16) in his rookie year in 1934. While it improved to .255 in 110…
A look at the newly redesigned diamond for APBA Baseball… APBA has announced via their latest newsletter that they are rebuilding the APBA Baseball and APBA Football games. Via the newsletter, here are the pertinent details: “We are rebuilding these games. There are no changes to the boards, except the…