Gene Tenace cards always had a funny quality about them. I tried to capture that in a past Weird Wednesday column with Tenace’s 1978 card but Howie Mooney’s 1981 Tenace card really shows it so much better. Keep in mind, that Tenace’s batting average was only .233 in 1981 for…
Posting this for friend and fellow Boys of Summer manager, Stray Corrado -Tom The Mid-West Baseball League may have an Opening for the 2016 MWBL Season & is always looking for quality managers, who meet the following requirements. Do the following statements describe you? Passionate about the game of baseball….…
Nestled in Tom Fulton’s hand is Bob Forsch’s 1987 card. Forsch played 16 seasons in the National League mostly with the St. Louis Cardinals. He was a solid if not flashy pitcher winning 168 games with a career ERA of 3.76. Apparently, Forsch was also pretty handy with the stick. …
Keeping tabs on the numbers likely will prove to be the part of the replay that will give you the most headaches and take the most time. After more than 10,000 solo games, I can categorically state that keeping stats is THE most challenging part of a replay. Before you…
Straight from the APBA company we have the 2015 APBA Baseball carded player list. This is the compiled rosters of all players who will get a APBA card (or a BBW player entry) for the 2015 season. You can download the roster in Excel format here. Each Major League Baseball…
I noticed today that I only have one Ty Cobb Monster Monday column to date. I do have a Terrible Tuesday one in his name (his rookie year) and I don’t like that ratio. So thanks to Pastor Rich “Grandmasta Monster Card” Zawadzki, here is Cobb’s 1916 card. In 1916,…
For many years, Bruce Norlander has been predicting APBA baseball pitching grades. He’s posted his predictions on the APBA Between the Lines forum for years but in the last several seasons, he’s posting it on his own site, ArchRivals Baseball. Bruce has a formula for predicting the grades and in…
A quick note of thanks to John Herson of the APBA Game Company who helped me save my Urbana Locomotives of the Boys of Summer APBA League which uses Baseball for Windows. Early this week, I fired up League Manager to set my lineups and rotations for a BoS road…
Figure on a full month to organize a replay. Organized preparation will save you lots of time and greatly enhance your replay when you actually start rolling. Let’s focus on what you will need to do to organize your replay. Basically, you can break a replay down into three parts:…
This past weekend while I was at the Illowa APBA All-Star get-together, I received a Facebook message from Jerry Conca. I found out Jerry is a friend of Bill Gilliam who is in my Boys of Summer League so I figured he was an ok guy. Jerry and I messaged…