Wow! What a day!! Chicagoland Tournaments are so fun! Due to Rob Spatz’ hard work, there were 43 in attendance at the Comfort Inn O’Hare in Des Plaines, Illinois. Congratulations to Dave Rueck! Mild-mannered Dave went 8-1 in regulation play with his 1912 New York Giants. He then proceeded to…
This Saturday is the Chicagoland Summer APBA World Series Tournament! There’s not much to say except Rob Spatz puts on an excellent tourney. He has put in months of prep work into this weekend. At this point, there will be around 40 participants traveling to Chicago to vie for the…
Ken Schulz shares this Bill North APBA card from the 1978 reprint set. I told Ken that when I joined the Illowa APBA League in 1980, North was my starting centerfielder and leadoff man. Would he have played for my team if he had a card like this? Maybe. Season…
Last weekend, the Illowa APBA League (10-team, basic game) got together to roll some bones. True to its moniker, they joined up in Iowa (Bettendorf, Iowa, to be specific). The Illowa League takes turns meeting up in Chicago and in the Quad Cities area. There were nine of us there…
After the Illowa APBA League weekend, I went to commish Mike Bunch’s house and we were browsing through his extensive APBA baseball set collection. I ran across this sweet 1970 Roberto Clemente card from the division-winning Pittsburgh Pirates. As usual, Clemente had a good mix of extra base hits with…
On Facebook, Eric Berg prompted those of us going to the July 20 Chicagoland APBA Baseball tournament to Post a photo of your #3 hitter! No names, just the pic of your stud at 3. For me, that was a very appropriate thing to ask. Along with Harmon Killebrew, my…
In my last post, I recapped the top five teams in my 1966 NL replay. Today, I’ll go through the lower five and describe the highlights and lowlights. I cobbled together a quick “by-the-numbers” graphic for the month of June. Also, if you haven’t seen it, here are the full…
I have finished the month of June in my 1966 National League replay! It’s a good time for a team-by-team update. Before I begin, a quick synopsis of my format of my replay: I use the APBA Basic Game with the optional rules I use the 1966 reprint cards from…
I have already written a bit about Juan Marichal’s performance in June. However, it wasn’t until I calculated the monthly stats for all the players when I realized how dominating he was for the San Francisco Giants. Marichal started seven times in June… and won all seven, leading the NL…
Dick Allen took a break in May but boy, he came back with gusto! Player Allen, Dick G 32 AB 121 R 23 H 48 2B 9 3B 8 HR 2 RBI 33 BB 10 SO 23 SB 4 AVG .397 SLG .653 OBP .443 The Phillie left fielder had…