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. …
Chris S. has a few questions about APBA Golf. Rather than go off of memory and slice, I thought I’d post them here and see if the APBA Golf aficionados might chime in. Even better, I’m going to post this article to Facebook’s APBA Golf Country Club page and see…
The APBA Company quietly rolled out the Starting Pitching Fatigue Chart with the new season. Those of you who received new cards may have noticed a new rating with the pitchers’ grade. The fatigue rating appears as a number right after the strikeout and control ratings on the same line…
The venue has been reserved. The rules are in place. The trophy has been ordered and is on its way. The best part…we now have fifteen participants who have committed to the Prairieland APBA Baseball Tournament which will take place at the Hampton Inn in Urbana, Illinois on April 16th. …
This is draft week for the Boys of Summer APBA League. In contrast to the Illowa APBA League where we draft in an hour or so, the BoS extends its draft over a week or so. There are reasons for this. One, managers of the BoS are spread out all…
Kenn Tomasch posted this 1973 Johnny Unitas APBA card on Facebook. Note, I’m not an APBA Football expert but even I could tell this card was not up to Unitas’ usual stuff. Hall of Fame quarterback Johnny Unitas played for the Baltimore Colts for 16 years (1956-1972). In that time,…
Brian Cavanaugh checks in with an update from the Bridesburg APBA League. This league which sprung out of the Bridesburg Boys and Girls Club that Brian has worked for, is now approaching its seventh year. Brian writes: Finally, after 6 seasons, my Senators are finally able to win a playoff…
Pastor Rich Zawadzki suggests this tasty 2007 Matt Holliday card for Monster Monday. What did Holliday do in 2007? In 158 games, he simply led the NL with 137 rbis, 50 doubles, 216 hits as well as a slick .340 batting average. That’s not all. He also hit 36 homers…