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…
“I’ve got more action than my man, John Woo And I’ve got mad hits like I was Rod Carew” -“Sure shot”, Beastie Boys I remember Rod Carew’s season of 1977. That was the year he threatened the .400 mark with the Minnesota Twins. If you look at his game…
In yesterday’s quite popular fan profile of Dan Velderrain, Scott Fennessy was asking in the comments about Dan’s dice tower. He wanted to know what it looked like and how it was used. Well Sgt. Dan has come through with photos of his tower! Dan says: “First pic is my…
Reader Shawn Kaufman writes in with a drafting question: Hi Tom, I just was curious about your thoughts on drafting. I have never been in a league that conducts an annual draft. I have also been playing with the Great Teams Volume 1 set of teams lately & picked 8…
For this APBA Fan Profile, I had the pleasure to get to know Dan Velderrain of the Southern California Baseball League. I’m glad I did and it makes me wish I could meet him in person (that really goes for pretty much everyone I’ve interviewed. The fan profile is one…
Last year, my Twin City Thunderchickens weren’t the best hitting team in the Illowa APBA League. They didn’t have the best pitching staff either. But dang if they didn’t have the best middle infield the IAL had ever seen. It’s not often you see a SS-10 and a 2b-9 on…