This photo all about why I like our league All-Star Games… …all eyes are on the dice as they come out of cup. The people you see are the newly-named City Boys Division (formerly East Division) of the Illowa APBA League. The roller is Mike Raisanen who was helping us…
Gates Brown is your quintessential pinch hitter. On his Baseball Reference page, he’s listed first as a pinch hitter and then as a left fielder. Of his total 1051 games played in the majors (all for Detroit, by the way), an even 500 were as a pinch hitter. Overall, Brown…
The Illowa APBA League All-Star weekend is coming up this Friday. One of our annual duties that happens on these weekends (besides playing the actual All-Star game) is voting on new IAL Hall of Fame inductees. Here are the current players up for inductions from the IAL online ballot: Pedro…
It’s been a while since I missed a Monster Card Monday. Yesterday, it couldn’t be helped. It was one of those days. Then when I found the time, the website was down for a brief time. So I’m making it up with a one time only (maybe) ‘Terrible Tuesday’ …
John Briggs sends us a great 2012 season wrap-up of the Roberto Clemente Memorial Baseball Association. -Tom We have just completed our 38th season and crowned a new champion. Ed Farmer has guided his Uniontown Red Raiders to their second RCMBA title! As you can see by the photo on…
I’m a little late with this since Brian Cavanaugh sent me this update a couple weeks ago. It worth reading though since it’s the season summary of the Bridesburg Boys and Girls Club APBA League. This is the third year of existence of the BBGCAL. Brian organizes the league with…
I’m chronicling the exploits of Tyler “51-13” Colvin as he makes it through the 2012 season on my IAL Twin City Thunderchickens. With the Illowa APBA League in a short hiatus with our late All-Star break this year, there hasn’t been a lot of dice rolling in the league lately. …
Many thanks to Chad Osborne who edits the blog 108 Problems But The Stitches Ain’t One. He mentions The APBA Blog’s Monster Card Monday weekly feature in one of his recent posts, Monster Idea Already Taken. Billed as “Baseball, Life and Other Stuff”, the 108 Problems website covers general baseball…
Courtesy of Scott Fennessy who is in the middle of his 1905 replay, comes another deadball favorite, 1905 Christy Mathewson. You can’t find a better representative of formidable pitching from the era than “Big Six”. He won 373 career games and his 2.13 ERA is fantastic even for the…
I mentioned yesterday that I just finished calculating the Illowa APBA League’s all-time leaderboards. Doing this is fun because it’s a stats thing. Once I’m done though, the temptation is there for me to crunch the numbers to figure out the all-time worst. It’s a perverse thing with me. Here’s…