During the recent Chicagoland Tournament, I went poking around in Pastor Rich’s box of APBA cards and dug this one up. It’s a winner. Harry “Slug” Heilmann’s card from 1923 is one of the best. Heilmann managed to slug .632 (the stats differ depending on the source) for the Detroit…
This is a first. In my day we had church softball leagues and church volleyball leagues. Matt Waterstone wrote me about his church-based APBA baseball league. The First Reformed Church in South Holland, Illinois has a league which has been around off and on since 1981. Matt says it is…
So what did you all get during the APBA Company’s Black Friday Sale? Tom Zuppa has a running thread on Facebook with quite a lot of responses already. Me? I was with family over the holiday. While my wife and daughter were shopping at the brick-and-mortar stores, I simply used…
I want to wish everyone a happy and safe Thanksgiving this year. This blog has done a lot to bring me closer to people who enjoy the game of APBA and share the love of sports and its history. Not only that, you have all broadened my scope of how…
John Brandeberry sent me the standings for the 1938 replay he’s currently doing. It looks like both New York teams are doing quite well. American League National League Hang tough, Cubbies! Sounds like Brando might make the trip back to Illinois from Montana for our Illowa APBA League draft weekend…
If you are looking to purchase any APBA products, this Friday would be the time to do it. The APBA Game Company is offering a Black Friday Deal. All products are 25% off. According to their latest newsletter: Place an online order on any in-stock product this Friday, November 28th…
Even before Jeff Kunkel came up in 1984, he was going to be the player the Rangers were going to build their franchise around. So much so that he was drafted highly in the Illowa APBA League rookie draft…fortunately not by me. Alas despite the media hype, Kunkel was pretty…
Don Mattingly makes his second showing on Monster Monday. I featured his 1985 card in September. I’ve never been a advocate of Donnie Baseball for the Hall of Fame but looking at his stats again, he makes a good case. He put a string of very good years together. The…
I have to give Kansas City credit. They didn’t give up after Minnesota scored 23 runs including a 12-run fifth inning. They did however, go through nine pitchers in this 26-15 battle in my 1961 APBA BBW replay. Unfortunately, this is one day when the computer played both teams. Currently,…
It’s nice to get a new league update from a new league. Marc Sillivan emails The APBA Blog about The College Hill Gamer Guys. Based in Texarkana, Arkansas (anywhere around you, Ken Heard?), these guys have played since 1985. As with many of us, life got in the way and…