With the new MLB season upon us, I started getting my daily emails from Kilg.us. I’ve written about Kilg.us before but in a nutshell, it’s a web-based baseball player tracker. It gives you a chance to group MLB players together in logical group and follow their stats on a daily…
Bob Gordon is in Game 3 of his riveting 1979 World Series replay. -TN Ok, Game 3 was supposed to be in Pittsburgh. I filled out the scoresheet (courtesy of Paul Dylan’s One for Five blog) with the O’s as the visitor and Pirates as home team in the scoring…
The positive thing about pitting two last place teams against each other is that when they split a series, winning percentages go up across the board. At least that’s how I’m choosing to look at my Thunderchickens opening series against Keith Smith and his Kentucky Kernels for the Illowa APBA…
Looking through my 1976 set, I ran across this Ken Rudolph card from the St Louis Cardinals. It wasn’t till I looked up his stats did I realize why his name sounded so familiar. He was the backup catcher for the Cubs between 1969-1973. Rockford, Illinois native Rudolph had his…
As if Rogers Hornsby doesn’t have enough Monster Card nominations already. He’s been written up for 1922, 1924 and 1929. Rajah’s 1921 season is just as full of gaudy numbers. For St Louis, he led in practically every offensive category except homeruns and steals. That included 44 doubles, 126 rbis,…
Bob Gordon’s 1979 postseason enters into Game 2 of the World Series. –TN Baltimore hosts game 2 of the series after their extra inning 4-3 win yesterday. John Candelaria (Grade BZ) takes on the Birds Steve Stone (Grade C). The Pirates send out essentially the same line up – the…
Congratulations to Andy Bartel and his 1902 Pirates for winning the Twin Cities APBA Baseball Tournament! Jim Fraasch sent me all the details from this past weekend’s event. First, here are the standings of the TCT-III that took place in Maple Grove, Minnesota: Saturday, April 4th, 2015 SAM MELE DIVISION…
Steve Stein wonders, Why oh why haven’t I posted this 2014 Leury Garcia card yet? Fair question. It’s pretty awful. Even for a White Sox hitter. (I kid). Garcia had plenty of chances to prove himself with 145 at-bats but could only muster a .166 batting average with one homer. …
Joe Liss posted this Hal Kelleher card from 1938 on Facebook. It’s a fun one. As a pitcher for the Philadelphia Phillies, Kelleher simply went 1 for 2 with one strikeout. Split G PA AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI SB BB SO BA OBP SLG 1938 Totals 6…
Two days ago, I posted about Mike Bunch finishing his 1963 replay and posted the National League leaderboards. If you haven’t chimed in on who should get the MVP and Cy Young, feel free to check it out and let him know. Now Mike wants your help with the American…