No dashes for 1968 Minnesota Twin Cesar Tovar’s APBA card. There is no room with every position listed on his card. All told, Tovar is rated as a 3B-4, OF-2, SS-6, 2B-6, C-5, 1B-2, and a Grade DXW P-1. Whew! While Tovar is quite the versatile player (I count at…
No doubt, Hank Aaron is recognized as one of the all-time greats. Yet, in some ways, he is still underrated. Here is a man who was hitting double-digit homers ten years before I was born. He still managed to have a superstar year as I was entering junior high school. …
The Transcontinental Baseball League is nearing their 2017 draft and by tradition, there is no lack of analysis, water-cooler talk and outright gossip about what teams will take who and when. The managers of the TBL take pride in their league and they go all out in writing up pre-draft…
Chuck Lucas has been seeing the leaderboards I’ve been posting for my 1966 National League replay using the APBA Basic Game and he asked about how I keep my stats. I thought the best way to show him (and everyone else) is to make a video tour of my stats…
Hi everyone, The Prairieland 2 APBA Baseball Tournament which will take place in Champaign, Illinois on April 1st is less than three months away. APBA fans are beginning to sign up but there is plenty of room. This year’s tourney will feature a team and fantasy deadball player “draft” which…
Neil Leininger emailed me to let me know that he and Brian Hamilton are gearing to bring up a new APBA baseball league using the Basic Game. The league is called the Roy Hobbs Baseball Association and currently there’s room for managers!! If you take a look at the proposed…
I’ve been having some unusual games in my 1966 NL replay. So much so that I even researched to see if it was a full moon during the time I’m replaying (no, it was a new moon at this time). some of the fun stuff happening… May 19th St. Louis…
Happy New Year!! Pastor Rich Zawadzki thought that Keith Hernandez’ 1979 card would make a nice intro to the 2017. At first glance, Hernandez wasn’t your stereotypical 1970s firstbaseman. He didn’t hit many homeruns; he only hit 11 for the year. Hernandez was more of the slick-fielding, hit the…
I shared a few highlights of my 1966 NL replay with Chuck Lucas, Scott Fennessy and Jim Saska over email recently. Chuck, who has done his share of replays, had a simple but rather poignant observation. He replied, “Once the season starts to have story lines it becomes easier and…
Buxton: speedy dude This is last post in the “2016 by the numbers” series. I’ve made an attempt to look at the data from the 2016 APBA Baseball disk and cover overall trends as well as spotlight the best (as well as the worst). I checked out the defensive ratings…