Portland’s Corey Dickerson hammers a HR in Game 3 of the NLCS As manager/GM of the Urbana Locomotives in the Boys of Summer League, I was riding pretty high as of Sunday. We had clinched the NL wild card with 97 wins. We barely defeated Shawn Baier’s Traverse City Panthers…
Rich Zawadski sent this Monte Irwin APBA card not long after Irwin passed away on January 11th. This card is from his time on the 1946 Newark Eagles, one of his best seasons ever. 1946 was quite a year for Irvin. He hit .375 with six homers and…
Saturday was quite a day baseball-wise. Last night was the University of Illinois annual Hot Stove Banquet which is always one the highlights of my winter. It was especially exciting since Dodgers star Steve Garvey was the keynote speaker. Earlier in the morning though, my Urbana Locomotives were facing off…
In its beginning, Jim Saska was a driving force in getting the Chicagoland tournaments going. In fact, he was one of the people I interviewed for the Tournament Organizer Roundtable late last year. However, some of you have noticed that he hasn’t been at the last couple of Chicagoland tournaments…
LeMahieu keeps the Locos’ playoff season alive Fans of The Boys of Summer APBA League Division series postseason teams are quite excited. Both the National League and the American League Division series playoffs are going the distance and will play a game 5. Brandon Matlock’s South Side Spartans won the…
I’m posting this for friend Stray Corrado. If you love baseball and love APBA Baseball for Windows, this might be the league for you. **** The Mid-West Winter League has ONE OPEN TEAM. We are completing the Draft for the 1991 Season & will have games underway soon. Do the…
I like anomalies and strangeness. I guess it’s why I do things like Terrible Tuesday and Weird Wednesday. Cards like today’s 1966 Alex Johnson fit in well. I’ve been playing Johnson in my 1966 replay this whole time without realizing he was the same Alex Johnson who won the batting…
Rob Spatz rolled quite the game with 1994 Frank Thomas. As you might be able to see from the photo above, The Big Hurt hit four straight homers in a game for Rob. Thomas had the card to do it, too. Frank Thomas won his second straight AL MVP award…
Sometimes depending on the situation, the bar for elation is lowered. For example, in the Boys of Summer League, I’m thrilled that I’m in the NL playoffs against tough Shawn Baier. On the other hand, I just rolled my last dice roll for the 2015 season for the Illowa APBA…
Tonight, I played the highly anticipated Dodgers-Giants two-game series in my 1966 replay which took place on May 3-4, 1966. The first game had a tough pitching matchup between Juan Marichal (AXZ) and Don Drysdale (CYZ). Marichal was coming off of two straight shutouts but it seems nobody can stop…