Just when you think we’ve seen all the great Babe Ruth cards, I ran across this 1917 Ruth card. This is not like most Ruth cards however. This is purely a pitcher’s card. Aside from eleven pinch hit appearances, the Babe was tasked to hurl from the mound for the…
The 2020 Illowa APBA League has now concluded. Yesterday, Commissioner Mike Bunch and I finished up our nine game series. Our series was hardly pivotal. Mike and I went into the series occupying the last two spots in the IAL standings. In fact, there was little chance that the results…
Sadly, we lost Hank Aaron last week. He broke the all-time record when I was ten years old and to me, he was always be the home run king. The card you see here is for Aaron’s 1957 season. I featured his Great Teams of the Past (GTOP) version of…
We’ve seen a few of the 2020 cards in the past few weeks. Now, it’s time go back a few decades. Ted Williams has had his share of Monster Card articles. You read about Ted Williams’ 1941, 1948, 1953 (the very first Monster Card ever!), 1955, and 1957 (the 1986…
I’ll do one more 2020 for Monster Monday before we turn back to our regularly scheduled programming. This card was alluded to in a Facebook comment to last week’s Monster Card Monday column which featured DJ LeMahieu. This week, it’s 2020 Freddie Freeman. In the Illowa APBA League, he is…
Our league, the Illowa APBA League, is in its last month of the 2020 season. After a month off, we will be drafting for our 2021 season based on 2020 MLB season. The IAL is a 10-team continuous ownership league which plays 162 games each year. This year will be…
If you have waited for the actual card set to become available to order the 2020 baseball season, the time is now! According to John Herson, you can now place an order. To do so, you can visit the APBA Game Company shop here. Interested in seeing who is getting…
Prolific APBA documentarian Rod Caborn sent me an update on the Orlando APBA Association (OAPBA). Congratulations are due to Jonathan Stilwell. His Otters won the 2020 OAPBA World Series over Craig Dolan’s Tsunamis This isn’t Jonathan’s first rodeo. He has won three World Series rings with OAPBA since he joined…
Happy New Year everyone!! What does a batting champ’s APBA card look like? Kinda like this. DJ LeMahieu sports a Carew-esque card in the 2020 season. Now excuse me a sec while I add “LeMahieu” to my spell checking dictionary. Ok, good. LeMahieu won the batting title with the Yankees…
Is it any coincidence that APBA cards have Christmas colors red and green on them? Here’s wishing every APBA fan out there a very happy holiday season this year! Please be safe and take some time to rest up for a much happier 2021 year! thanks to everyone out there!…