It seems that this weekend is the big weekend for APBA baseball drafts. Our Illowa APBA League meets on Friday in Chicago suburbs for the postseason, draft and the start of the 2015 season. But our league is not the only league drafting this weekend. Stray Corrado is getting ready…
What’s this? A fast OF-2 with a 44-7 on a Tuesday? Appropriately so, since it’s Tyrus Raymond Cobb’s rookie year in 1905. The charter member of the Hall of Fame began his career with Detroit. It was first and last time he hit below .300 in his 24 year career. …
Suggested by Pastor Rich Zawadzki, this 1936 Hal Trosky card is quite simply fun. Just to look at it, it is a thing of beauty. In 1936, Trosky led the AL with 405 total bases and 162 bases with the Indians. He had ample extra base hits with 45 doubles…
APBA tournaments are springing up all over the place. Seeing the fun and success of other tournaments, PA native Ken Schulz decided to get in on the action. He’s attempting to organize an APBA baseball tournament in Pittsburgh. After announcing it just a few days ago, Ken already has seven…
This 1940 Joe Bowman card comes from Ken Schulz who posted it to Facebook. Now there’s really only one thing weird about this card but it’s a doozy. It won’t take long for you to find it. I’m going to hazard a guess that it’s supposed to be a 13. …
I was browsing through my old 1979 cards and ran across Stan Papi of the Red Sox. Papi was a true “all glove-no hit” type though in ‘79 APBA didn’t see fit to reward his fielding efforts. 1979 was Papi’s first year in the American League after three years with…
It’s draft time now in many APBA baseball leagues. The Roberto Clemente Memorial Baseball Association is no exception as they conducted their annual draft last weekend. When rumors of their top picks spread among my league’s email list, I contacted John Briggs of the RCMBA. John responded by not only…
Kevin Burghardt is back. I posted his NL update of his Great Teams of the 70s project last week. Now, as he promised, it’s time to present the AL side. Kevin is 108 games through his project. Besides, it gives me another chance to post a photo of Kevin with one…
I forgot who suggested this 1956 Paul Minner card (if you’re reading this, ‘fess up!) but it’s a good one. Rather unusual too. Lefty Minner finished out his career with the Cubs in ‘56 and didn’t do so hot from the bump. He had a 2-5 record with a 6.89…
Rod Caborn submits this “stranger than fiction item” as he puts it, from his 1911 National League replay: Giants Christy Mathewson has started out 7-0 (NY Giants are 22-6 and running away with the NL race) and just completed second of two consecutive one-hit shutouts. On May 8, Mathewson one-hit…