I decided to post this week’s Throwback Thursday photo to the blog instead of directly to Facebook. I just wanted Jim Saska to see it since he is the subject of it. Jim sent me this awesome 1980 photo of himself. Yes, the indubitably reliable organizer of the Chicagoland APBA…
Courtesy of Keith Reifsnyder who posted this on Facebook, this 2008 Willie Bloomquist card is weird enough with a total of twenty-three 11s in the second column. But look closely at the 51 and you’ll see that he should actually have twenty-four. He has a 51-9-1. It’s an odd place…
Bob Hadier posted this 1947 Gil Coan card on Facebook. What a card and honestly, what a performance in an admittedly limited season. For the Senators, Coan batted .500 in 1947. He didn’t go 1 for 2 or 3 for 6 or anything like that. No, Coan collected 21 hits…
Harry Hamels nominated 1981 Bill North for Weird Card Wednesday on the APBA Baseball Facebook group. He counts a total of 34 asterisks on North’s card (I’ll take his word for it :) ). With the Giants, it was Bill North’s last year in the majors. While hitting only .221,…
Bob Gordon suggested this 1979 Rudy Meoli card a long time ago. I’m finally getting around to using it. Meoli was your typical 1970s no-hit infielder only more so. With the Angels, Cubs and Phillies, he played second, third and short but never hit over .250. In fact, in his…
There are a couple of big tournaments in the Midwest coming up. Pastor Rich’s 1st Annual Greater Michigan APBA Baseball Basic Tournament is just around the corner and if you want to get in on it, now’s your chance. Pastor Rich says there are already teams slotted for the tourney!…
In light of last week’s Hall of Fame balloting, here’s Pedro Martinez’ 1999 APBA card. Between 1997-2003, P.J. Martinez had a string of seven outstanding years (with the possible exception of his injury-plagued 2001 season). In that time, he went 118-36 with a 2.20 ERA and struck out 1761 batters…
by Scott Fennessy Well the results are in, and while I personally was thrilled for Johnson, to a lesser extent Smoltz I was surprised to see Martinez get such a high percentage of the votes considering how short his career was for injuries. I have no problem with his numbers…
Some news of interest came via the APBA Newsletter in this first week of the year. Of biggest importance, the 2014 baseball cards are shipping. I know a lot of you have already gotten them. For those who haven’t, the APBA Company says to watch your credit card account. They…
Yesterday, I posted a 1987 catcher for Terrible Tuesday. Today, how about another one from the same year for Weird Wednesday? This time, it’s Ron Karkovice, who played all twelve seasons of his career with the Chicago White Sox. In 1987, Karko actually batted lower than yesterday’s Joel Skinner with…