It never fails to amaze me to see APBA players want to simulate an event and then find a way to achieve it. The Mid-West Baseball League have been doing a homerun derby since 2003. Stray Corrado wrote me to announce that the MWBL just held their annual 2012 Christmas…
A couple of new developments on the Alpharetta homefront… One, the 2012 APBA Baseball cards are shipping!. The APBA Company posted a short announcement today to that effect. Along with the announcement is a gentle plea to hold off on the calls to the Company asking about the status of…
A couple days ago, I posted a summary of a 1967 American League replay in progress that Mel M. is doing. Turns out, he’s also replaying the NL as well. He forwarded the details of that plus a little summary. The Giants and Braves are off to a good start…
Last night, I played the my last series of the 2012 Illowa APBA League season against John Brandeberry’s Rising Bamm Beanos. I won four of nine games but that’s not the big story to me. The big story was pitcher John Lackey. See, John Lackey was pitching his last series…
Reader Mel M sends us a detailed update of his APBA Master Game replay of the 1967 American League. Right now, Mel has played up to June 4. Despite the efforts of batting leader Tony Oliva (right) and homerun leader Harmon Killebrew, both of the Twins, it’s the Red Sox…
Now, this probably isn’t the absolutely worst card in the world. However, as I was going through my ‘91 set last night, I did a double take when running across Mr. Sosa’s card with 31-22 and 51-40. This was during Sosa’s three-year stint with the White Sox. He a bit…
I defy anyone to find something wrong with this card. It has everything… speed, versatility, average, and of course, power and lots of it. As the card indicates, it’s the 1931 Josh Gibson card. Not only does it have six power numbers (1-1-2-3-6-6) but three 7s and an 11. Gibson…
Steve Stein emailed me to tell me that the Transcontinental Baseball League have released the names of this year’s TBL Hall of Fame induction. It’s quite a worthy class. The Transcontinental Baseball League has announced its class of 2013. Greg Maddux (league best 403 Wins, 5323 IP) was selected on…
It was about time I got Joltin’ Joe in on Monday. Taking a look at DiMaggio’s stats, I was impressed by one thing. Every year he played in the majors, he was on the All-Star team and all but one year, he was in the running for the MVP (the…
This will probably be my last post until after the Christmas holiday. I actually have a Monster Card Monday article that is queued up and will post automatically on Christmas Eve (we’ll see if that works). In the spirit of Christmas, I won’t be a Scrooge and post a Terrible…