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…
October 12, 1903 Pittsburgh, PA It’s a rematch from game 1 as Cy Young and Charles Phillippe square off. The mood in the Boston clubhouse was much more relaxed after their first win in the series, while player-manager Fred Clarke stressed fundamentals and staying within their abilities in the other…
How you keep the box scores for the games in your replay is a very personal selection. The number of box score formats available is endless. Google box score formats and you get hundreds of examples of different formats that are available. Some questions worth considering before you settle on…
Craig Christian showed me this 1957 Joey Jay card a couple days ago. The strange thing about it? Look at the stats. One game, one save but no innings pitched. At first, I wondered if there was some obscure rule I wasn’t aware that would award a pitcher a save…
Looking through my new 1930 baseball card set, I saw plenty of monster cards and a few terrible ones too. But what’s this? Hall of Famer Dave Bancroft? With a 33-14? Sure enough, in his last season in baseball, “Beauty” Bancroft went 1 for 17 for John McGraw’s New York…
The APBA Blog’s deadball expert Scott Fennessy passed this interesting 1902 Charles Hickman card to me. Hickman was known by two nicknames. This card shows “Cheerful Charlie” but I’ve always known him as “Piano Legs”. Hickman played for seven teams in 12 years but it’s probably safe to say that…
The results are in. Here are the final standings of the Boys of Summer APBA League. Matt Hoeppner’s South Side Spartans and Stray Corrado’s Chicago Nine both won their respective divisions in the American League. Brandon Matlock easily took the wild card spot. In the NL, Brad Stark’s Portland Microbrewers…
The Prairieland APBA Baseball Tournament in Urbana, Illinois is only a little more than three months away. We have a good number of participants committed to play on April 16th but we would welcome more. Now that it’s the new year, it’s time to start making plans. Organizers Eric Berg,…
Somebody check my dice! In my 1966 replay, starting pitchers are dominant! It all started with Dodger Claude Osteen’s shutout on April 29th followed by Sandy Koufax’s no-hitter on April 30th against the Reds. On that same day, Houston’s Larry Dierker (right) battled for a five-hit shutout vs Ken Johnson…