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…
Scott Fennessy follows up his guest article a couple days ago with another Cubs-Giants game wrap-up from his 1905 replay. Good news! Scott will be officially joining The APBA Blog as an regular contributing writer! – Tom by Scott Fennessy If you thought game 1 was good here is the…
Reader Scott Fennessy is into May in his 1905 APBA baseball replay. He sends us a recap of a game pitched by two of baseball’s best hurlers. -Tom by Scott Fennessy Not ready for the total update yet as I am still in mid May, and will definitely have a…
Original1957 mint card set from Len Gaydos’ collection It’s not every day that The APBA Blog inbox gets an email from an APBA legend but last Saturday just wasn’t any day, I guess. I got a email from Len Gaydos who along with his brother Ronald, was the original founder…
It’s a first for the Monster Card Monday feature. This week’s entry, the 1930 reprint of Babe Ruth’s card is the first time a player has re-appeared for a second time. The Babe was my selection as a Monster Card with his 1927 card back in June. Yes, I need…