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…
I’ve spent a good part of this week working on all-time league leaders for the Illowa APBA League. I did a quick summary here at the IAL website where I concentrated on how our active players are faring. It’s a fact of life that records are meant to…
Tom Wall writes in with his story how he plays APBA Baseball. We all play the game for different reasons. Some of us want to achieve statistical accuracy and some of what to find realism. Tom, however, enjoys the aspect of APBA of “what-if” scenarios. That is, creating scenarios which…
Every time I do a Monster Card from the deadball era, it seems like I learn something new. I suppose it’s because if it’s a player like Ruth or Eckersley, I assume I know the player well enough (hint: I probably don’t). With a player like 1905 Mike Donlin, I…