It’s been a while since we had a League Profile. Hugh Brown filled out the form and sent me the data on his league simply called APBAL. Hugh claims that APBAL is one of the oldest leagues in existence and I certainly can’t dispute that. APBAL was formed way back…
Pastor Rich Zawadzki can never pass up a chance to send on a good Monster card. Like this 1935 Joe “Ducky” Medwick card from the set published a couple years ago. It was Medwick’s fourth year in baseball and he had already established his presence with the St. Louis Cardinals. …
Pastor Rich Zawadzki can never pass up a chance to send on a good Monster card. Like this 1935 Joe “Ducky” Medwick card from the set published a couple years ago. It was Medwick’s fourth year in baseball and he had already established his presence with the St. Louis Cardinals. …
The Transcontinental Baseball League is one of the most well-documented APBA baseball leagues in existence. With a professional writer like Walter Hunt on the roster, it’s no surprise they put out such good press releases like the newly released 2016 TBL Annual. The 2016 TBL Annual is 146 pages long…
From Eddie Wilbanks comes Babe Ruth’s 1926 APBA card. Babe has been featured on Monday probably more than anyone (1916, 1920, 1921, 1924, 1927, 1930) but his ‘26 card is more than worthy. In 1926, Ruth got back on track after his reputed “Bellyache heard round the world”. His homers…
Some APBA games just go your way. I was playing an Illowa APBA League series with my Pittsburgh pal Todd Ventresca and his Three Rivers Gamblers tonight. He won the first three and I won the next. What happened in the next game is one for the record books. It…
The 2016 Prairieland APBA Baseball Tournament is now in the books. We had a total of fifteen participants that traveled from as far away as Michigan and Nebraska to Urbana, Illinois to play APBA baseball. At the Hampton Inn, we broke into two divisions and played our opponents (one game…
One week from today, sixteen APBA fans, boards and dice in hand, will converge on the college town of Urbana, Illinois to participate in the first Prairieland APBA Baseball Tournament or as it is now simply called “The Prairieland”. That’s right, sixteen. With one more late addition, we now have…
It’s definitely APBA tournament season. While people are still talking about Pastor Rich Zawadzki’s Greater Michigan APBA Baseball Tournament which took place in March, the big talk now is last weekend’s Neil Ess Memorial Twin Cities APBA Baseball Tournament-V in Minnesota. Not only that, in less than two weeks, the…
Nothing says “Monster” like “Joltin’ Joe” DiMaggio. Pastor Rich Zawadzki passed on this 1939 APBA card which verifies this fact. It was Joe D’s fourth year in the majors and he had already made his mark with the Yankees. In his first three years, he batted over .300 each year. …