Jim Fraasch, organizer of the Twin Cities APBA Baseball Tournament, sends an update on the third tournament in the series. The divisions are now set! Jim writes: Here is the latest update on TCABT-III, being held Saturday, April 4th, 2015. While 15 entrants is not the big number, as you…
Beau Lofgren furthers my theory that catchers are by far, the most popular candidate for Terrible Tuesday. He sends me 1989 Greg Myers of the Toronto Blue Jays. Myers spent a total of 18 years in the majors. That tells me that if a youngster is determined to get a…
Rodney Woodward passed on Matt Carson’s 2013 APBA baseball card on to me. I remember Carson’s numbers well. He led all APBA baseball cards in 2013 for the most hit numbers on one card (with 15) as well as having the most on-base numbers on one card (18). Obviously, he…
Bob’s thrilling account of his 1979 postseason continues with Game Four of the NLCS. -Tom In Three Rivers again, where the Astros hope to build on yesterday’s 11-4 win and knot the series up. Bill Virdon goes with JR Richard (Grade AXYZ). Chuck Tanner elects to start Jim Bibby (Grade…
If you have already, you can download the corrected cards for the 2014 APBA Baseball set. You download them from the APBA Company website. There are six players affected: David Hale Christopher Valaika Homer Bailey Bartolo Colon Jason Frasor Jerry Sands Some are minor corrections. I’m still trying to figure…
This 1950 Richie Ashburn card was posted by Tom Allshouse to the APBA Baseball group on Facebook. Thanks to Ken Schulz for bringing it to my attention. It’s a fun one. It starts out ok but once you get to 55 and you see the 7, you wonder “wait a…
Bob Gordon’s 1979 ALCS heads into Game 3. Here’s his wrapup. – Tom The series shifts to the Charm City (I lived there, liked it and still don’t know why it got dubbed the Charm City) with the Twins down two games to none. They’ve been outscored 18-4 and are…
I guess it’s appropriate that most of these Terrible Tuesday cards come at the beginning or at the end of player’s careers. That’s the case with this 1978 Tony Muser card. It’s at the tail end of his nine year career when he finished up with the Brewers. In 1978,…
Pastor Rich brings us this Monster Willie Mays card of 1965. 1965 was about midway through Willie Mays’ career/ In terms of his offensive value though, Mays’ first part of his career was definitely his salad days. He hit 481 of his 660 homers before the 1966 season. In 1965,…
Bob Gordon continues his recap of his 1979 postseason. He’s in Game 3 of the NLCS. Tom The series moves to Pittsburgh and the Astros have their backs to the wall. In game 2, they put 7 runs on the board against one of the best hurlers the NL has…