Steve Ryan writes: “I believe this (Bob Seeds card) is from the 1936 Yankees and how many times does a player with a 33-1 also have three 14* on his card? Not sure if you have covered this in Monster Card Monday but it also might be worthy of a…
Remember last season in the Boys of Summer APBA League when my Urbana Locomotives won 104 games? That was fun. We had the Cy Young winner and the MVP. I even won Manager of Year for my league. That was fun, too. In the new year, the Locos are learning…
Rod Caborn’s latest project was a traditional replay concept with a twist. It was a decade replay using the Great Teams of the Past (GTOP) from the 1940s. This time however. Rod integrated players from the Negro League set into three of teams. A very interesting concept! Rod’s summary is…
APBA player Chad Holmes and I have been trading emails lately. He is a manager in the NVABL which by the way, has a pretty cool website. Chad thought it would be a good idea if I started plugging more manager openings for leagues… putting those interested in leagues with…
It’s amazingly appropriate how much of a fan base APBA still has in its original hometown of Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Joe Shaffer’s APBA baseball league called the Red Rose APBA League is based there. The RRAL has been around for a while. Since 1977 to be exact. That’s long enough to…
What is it about San Francisco relievers that lends their batting cards to being so strange? This is the card of Giants reliever Gary Lavelle of 1984. Lavelle had a typical year on the mound just missing an A* with a 2.76 ERA. But at the plate, he went 0…
Andrew McCutchen: OF-3 and four solid power numbers This is the last of my 2014 APBA Baseball By the numbers series. Just a few miscellaneous categories to wrap up and some are silly and useless but fun. Honestly though, in 2014 there weren’t many strange anomalies that struck me. No…
“Terrible” Tom Zuppa comes through with this week’s Tuesday submission. It’s Dick Tracewski of the 1968 Detroit Tigers. Tom writes: “I picked up GTOP2, which included the ’68 Tigers. Most people know about Ray Oyler’s terrible .135. And I knew Detroit forced Mickey Stanley into short in the World Series…
Tulowitzki: double ones and most on-base numbers in the set Bah, pitching and defense! I’ve already written about those. Now, it’s time to talk about the 2014 Hitting numbers from the recently released APBA disk! Here are the best, the most and sometimes, the worst. Power Sluggers: These players had…
Doug Schuyler passed on this juicy (no pun intended) APBA card. It’s Dante Bichette’s APBA card of 1995. Bichette played for the Colorado Rockies in Denver where the air was thin and the balls were flying over the fence. At least, Dante’s were. He led the NL with 40 homers…