For a few years, Dick Dietz had good going with the San Francisco Giants as their catcher. He even batted .300 with 107 rbis in 1970. But it wasn’t always that way. His rookie year backing up Tom Haller (go Illini!) at San Fran was a bit of a bust. …
This just in… Neil Leininger emailed me to let me know that the Lame Duck Baseball Association conducted their draft last Saturday. This is how their first round went: Correa, Carlos Seager, Corey Bryant, Kris Lindor, Francisco Syndergaard, Noah Russell, Addison Schwarber, Kyle Sano, Miguel Conforto, Michael Franco, Maikel McCullers,…
I was never a huge Vince Coleman fan in his day. I mean, I grew up a Cubs fan, right? But boy, that man could steal bases. Matt Farmer thought his 1985 APBA card would make a good Monster Card and I agree. 1985 was Coleman’s rookie year and that…
We now have 13 confirmed participants for the April 16th Prairieland APBA Baseball Tournament in Urbana, Illinois! I’m excited to see some familiar faces as well as some new faces as well. Here is the updated team roster for the tourney: Manager Team Dick Butler 1908 Chicago Cubs Lew Ramey…
Jerry Hill thought this 2015 Jordan Pacheco card would be a fun Weird Wednesday card. Look at all the ones in the second column! Pacheco went 16 for 66 for a .242 batting average for the Diamondbacks. His only extra base hits were two homeruns… but that is probably pretty…
In probably the last press release for the 2015 season, awards were announced for the Boys of Summer APBA League. Not too surprisingly the Manager of the Year awards were pretty unanimous. Portland’s Brad Stark won it for the National League and Stray Corrado of the Chicago Nine took it…
Scott Fennessy passed on this interesting 1915 Fielder Jones card from the Federal League. Around the turn of the century, Jones had a relatively distinguished career as an outfielder in the National League with Brooklyn and in the American League with the Chicago White Sox. He went on to manage…
I just know I’m going to catch heck for posting this 2015 Curt Casali card for Monster Monday. It didn’t stop Don Smith from drafting him in the Illowa APBA League rookie draft though. Tampa catcher Casali went 24 for 101 for a .238 average in 2015. More importantly, he…
The APBA Blog tournament page is filling up. Thanks to Ron Emch’s heads up, I added two more tournaments for the 2016 season. Ron himself is organizing the second Toledo Glass City APBA Baseball Tournament on August 27, 2016. If it’s anything like the first, it should be very successful. …
Rob Moore presents the championship award to Nick Tegeler (right) Nick Tegeler pretty much swept the Illowa APBA League in 2016. Coming into the IAL weekend last Friday, Nick’s Iowa Oinkers had already won first place with a formidable 111-51 record. The Oinkers second baseman Jose Altuve was voted IAL…