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…
Bob Gordon is in World Series mode now taking the 1979 Pirates and Orioles to the big time! – Tom We are in Baltimore, the Charm City, for Game 1 of the 1979 World Series. (OK, so I looked it up. Baltimore tried to change its image by adopting a…
Mike Bunch, my Illowa APBA League commissioner, just completed his 1963 replay! This is part of his huge project to replay the entire 1960 decade. Mike wants your help, though. Here are the leaderboards for the National League. Can you make suggestions for who should win MVP and Cy Young?…
There’s nothing overtly wacky about this 1978 Gene Tenace card. However, Tenace always seemed to get cards that were a bit strange. This ‘78 card is the epitome of the cards he received. Fury Gene Tenace was a hard nosed player who played most of his career for Oakland and…
I thought I would post from the worst of the Illowa APBA League rookie draft last month. I was thinking about putting up Mike Olt’s card with his 15-14. But he’s got a bit of power and besides, he’s a Cub. Then up comes firstbaseman Andy Wilkins from 2014. Yow! …
Scott Fennessy forwarded on this 1981 Mike Schmidt card and makes us all wonder “what would have happened if that fateful season had been allowed to play out to its full schedule. The 1981 season was cut short due to the players’ strike and the Philadelphia Phillies only got in…
IAL team batting after one month Let’s talk about the exciting topic of stat normalization. Specifically about how it affects APBA leagues with a small number of teams. Take the example of my Illowa APBA League. We’re a basic game, continuous ownership league with just 10 teams. Each year,…
It’s the 28th of the month so that means it’s stat day for the Illowa APBA League. Since our APBA draft weekend was a bit early in February this year, the managers had a good month and a half to get the stats done for the first 30 games but…