This weekend is the 45th annual Illowa APBA League All-Star Game! The ten managers of the IAL (10 team, basic game, 162 games per season) will be convening (one virtually) this Friday and Saturday in Downers Grove, Illinois. The ballots have been cast and the starters have been chosen. JD…
I know I’m powering through these All-Star ballots for my 1966 Basic Game replay. I really appreciate all of your votes! Up today, NL shortstops. There are some sleepers in here. And I mean some shortstops that I did not expect to hit well. A few of these fine glovemen…
Beau Lofgren sent this doozy of an APBA card a while back. This is Rodney McCray’s last card of his career in 1992 with the New York Mets. Long story short… McCray went 1 for 1 but because he was used as a pinch runner fourteen times, he accumulated two…
The ballot for second base in my NL 1966 basic game replay is kind of interesting. I find it a pretty strong offensive position considering the era of the sixties. It might come down to the kind of player or hitter you like. One thing is for sure… you will…
I just wanted to congratulate my friend and frequent tourney participant John Roels (that’s him at Chicagoland earlier this year) on his win at the Indy 500 Tournament. John won with the Cincinnati Reds of 1955. Give the tournament organizers of Indy 500 some due credit. Mike Willett and Dave…
My 1966 National League replay is chock-full of quality first baseman. How good are they? There were a total of four eventual Hall of Fame first sackers among the ten NL teams alone (plus one eventual NL President). Hall of Famer Orlando Cepeda didn’t make the cut. Neither did 1B-5…
Okay, here goes! This is my first ballot for the upcoming All-Star Game in my 1966 NL replay!! During the ballot process, I’ll be posting images of players who didn’t make the cut… like the Mets’ Jerry Grote above. The sixties was a decade when one catcher would catch both…
This is just a quick run down of APBA tournaments. I encourage you to check out this excellent Boys of Summer article which covers a lot of the current APBA tournaments and includes a lot more details (thanks Shawn!). Because boy, there are a lot of them going on! Darrell…
This is the second Brooks Robinson card I’ve featured on Monday. I posted about B-Robbie’s 1962 card before but you can never see enough 3B-6 cards, am I right? Brooks’ 1966 card is slightly less strong offensively as his 1962 one but overall, it a solid contender. Brooks hit .269…
Now that it is July in my 1966 NL replay, things are heating up! The race is tightening up and there has been some shifting in the standings. Baseball pundits are not as bullish on the Dodgers and the Giants. Now however, stock is high in Philly and Cincy. And…