On the weekend of October 5-7, 2018, the Illowa APBA League held its annual All-Star Game and associated festivities in Downers Grove, Illinois. Friday night was the highlight. The City Boys division defeated the Country Gents division by the score of 7-2. The game was never really close. Thanks to…
This weekend is the Illowa APBA League’s All-Star Game. A 10-team basic league, the IAL has been in existence since 1975. Each year, we all get together to play our best players. This year’s event will take place in Downers Grove, Illinois. It’s the Country Gents vs. City Boys. The…
Scott Fennessy had an idea for a Monster Card Monday column… I have been getting back into an APBA loving mode and have neared the end of the 1961 season. While Maris and Mantle get all the attention in the articles I see, I don’t know that anyone has submitted…
The team selection process for the 10th Twin City APBA Baseball Tournament is over and the rolling is almost ready to begin. Jim Fraasch reports there are 30 teams participating. Wow, that’s a lot of Minnesota APBA fans! I gotta be rooting for the lone Illinois participant, Eric Berg. Go…
It seems that 2018 is the season that MLB is testing APBA. I’ve already written about Shohei Ohtani and the challenges his dual role poses for the APBA Game Company in assigning him a position rating. He’s not the only strange situation from this year though. Fellow IAL manager Rob…
Tony Stevens sends an update on his upcoming RollAPBAlooza Tournament in Brooksville, Florida! Tony says: We have a new RollAPBAlooza record of 24 teams. We have 6 teams in each division with 3 divisions using the DH. The lone division not using the DH is named after Brooksville, FL native…
How will APBA cardmakers handle LA Angel Shohei Ohtani? A player in his situation has not occurred in recent memory. I know the Illowa APBA League group text has been chatting about this all season. For those not following the Angels, Ohtani is a rookie pitcher who also performs the…
Ron Emch graciously provided this wrap-up of the Toledo Glass City APBA Baseball Tournament IV. Congratulations to Tucker McBride!! When I was talking to Tucker McBride at the 2018 Linda B. Schulz APBA tournament in early July, he wasn’t sure he would be able to make the Glass City Tournament…
One-time batting leader Ron Santo has now been pushed off of the top ten batting leaderboard in my 1966 National League replay. Is it because he’s doing poorly now? Well, partially. He has gone 1 for 19 in his last five games and is now batting .308. He also just…
Thanks to Scott Fennessy for passing on this Sherry Magee card from the 1904 season set which was published in 2013. Magee had a pretty decent year in part-time work for the last place Phils in 1904. Standard Batting Year G PA AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI SB…