October 8, 1902 Pittsburgh, PA The A’s faced the Pirates again today after being shutout in game 1. Pirates player-manager Fred Clarke was feeling extremely confident as his ace hurler, Charles “Deacon” Phillippe takes the mound today. Charles is an AYZ who won 33 games during the regular season. His…
When Pastor Rich Zawadzki suggested 1922 Ty Cobb for Monster Monday, I thought surely I had already done this one. I mean it’s a .400 hitting card of the Georgia Peach. I should know better than to doubt Pastor Rich though. He’s done his homework. I’ve done a few Ty…
October 7, 1902 Pittsburgh, PA The World Series comes to Pennsylvania for this matchup between the Philadelphia Athletics, who after coming up short last year to the Red Sox, and seemingly the perennial favorites who come up short and the Pittsburgh Pirates. The Pirates have a lot of “technicals” here.…
Ken Schulz sent this 1908 Johnny Kling card in a while ago. I had it tagged as a Weird card but it took me a few seconds to figure out what was so strange about it. Can you? According to SABR’s bio of Kling, he was called “Noisy” because of…
"I got more hits than Sadaharu Oh." … -Beastie Boys Shawn Baier thought that since his 76th birthday is coming up, Sadaharu Oh would be a good choice for Monster Monday. Shawn submits this custom 1974 Oh card. Look at all the 14s!! Oh hit 49 of his 868 career…
I remember back when I got the cards and started setting up the lineups I thought three things immediately. “wow, the Pirates are going to dominate ALL”, “what happened to the Phillies good players” and “man the Cardinals sure do stink” (I actually said something worse, but Tom runs a…
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…
The completion of this season gives me a pretty good chunk of the first decade of “modern baseball” I now have 1901, 02, 03, and 05 in the books. Unlike my other dead ball replays this set was generated just a couple of years ago, so they had much more…
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. …