As I mentioned last week, I sent in my ballot for the Illowa APBA League Hall of Fame. League VP Rob Moore announced the ballot results in the comments but I thought I’d give them their due here. The members of the IAL Hall of Fame class of 2011 are:…
This is the second in new Monster Card Monday series. You know him, you love him. By popular demand, here comes George Puccinelli of 1930. Puccinelli is probably pretty obscure in the history of baseball unless you are an APBA player. He played for a total of 187 games and…
My friend Chuck Lucas is doing a replay of the 1959 season. ‘Luke’ is a manager in a league I’m in, the IAL. He’s also a big baseball history buff and a huge White Sox fan. So I guess it’s no surprise that he chose the year 1959 to replay. …
Major League Baseball isn’t the only league going through an exciting postseason. Some APBA baseball leagues are going through a postseason of their own. Rod Caborn updates us on the postseason drama of Orlando APBA Association (OAPBA): Dave Larson’s Taz Devils (56-24), who had the league’s best record in…
After reading about the series between the 1930 Cubs and Dodgers that Brando and I did and seeing Babe Herman’s super human APBA card, Aaron Wilson emailed me and suggested that The APBA Blog write more about other monster APBA cards that are out there. I thought that was a…
Francis Rose over at 66Connection.com has some good videos of an Appreciation Dinner held in honor of long time employees of APBA Veryl Lincoln and Skeet Carr. Scott Lehotsky, who was responsible for the video “Of Dice and Men”, produced the video. Rose breaks up the video into three parts. …
Maddux: You’re voting for me? It’s Hall of Fame time at the Illowa APBA League. I’m finally getting around to filling out my ballot for the 2011 IAL inductee class. As I mentioned before, this is a year with some talented players especially among the pitchers. The pitchers on this…
John Briggs of the Roberto Clemente Memorial Baseball Association writes: I’ve been doing the pitcher splits for innings as starter & reliever for many many years. I used to do it for the APBA Journal for their last ten years or so and I still do it for our…
My buddy Brando and I settled down in his basement this afternoon to watch the Illinois-Ohio State football game and meanwhile play some APBA. As I mentioned this morning, he had chosen the 1930 Chicago Cubs and Brooklyn Dodgers for us to play leaving me with the Windy City team.…
My buddy Brando invited me over again today for another day of Illini football and APBA. Illinois is taking Ohio State at Memorial Stadium and we’ll be watching it on his big screen. What teams will we be playing? I asked him earlier if he wanted me to pick the…