APBA Baseball gets a mention on the Chicago Tribune’s article, Best sports toys ever: What’s missing from the Hall of Fame. The National Toy Hall of Fame made their annual induction selections recently. Bubbles, Little Green Army Men and Rubik’s Cube were inducted. The Tribune listed the APBA Game as…
The Fall 2014 Chicagoland APBA Baseball World Series Tournament divisions have been announced! According to tournament organizer Jim Saska, he drafted Mrs. Saska to pick teams out of a hat and these are the results… Brickhouse Division Jim Saska 1935 Cubs Dave Oberg 1919 White Sox Gary Lindley 1930 A’s…
One more from Scott Fennessy’s 1993 set. It’s Paul “Killer” Kilgus who was finishing up his career with the St Louis Cardinals. Aside from sharing his name with one of my favorite baseball stat trackers, there are few oddities with Kilgus’ card. One, I don’t know of many split grade…
Last Saturday, the Boys of Summer APBA League completed its rookie and free agent draft for their upcoming 2014 season. Conducted over Facebook, sixteen teams chose 240 players. Yasiel Puig was picked #1 by Shawn Baier’s Traverse City Panthers and Jose Fernandez was picked second. Here’s how the rest of…
Catcher Chad Kreuter won’t turn many heads with his 1989 APBA card. He was in his sophomore year with the Texas Rangers when he batted .152 with 5 homers in 158 at-bats. He did manage to walk 27 times though. Despite his low playing time for the Rangers, Kreuter also…
This is last I think in a series from Scott Fennessy from 1993. It’s first baseman Dave Staton from the San Diego Padres. In 1993, Staton came to bat 46 times for the Pads and hit five homers. That pretty much sums up his value. He did hit three doubles…
With the Boys of Summer APBA League’s 2014 season at a close, it was time to dole out some well-deserved awards. The ballot went out a few weeks ago and was voted on by the managers of BoS. And while my Urbana didn’t quite make it to the World Series…
Courtesy of Scott Fennessy, this is Rob Ducey’s 1993 card. Ducey batted 85 times for the Rangers in ‘93. He batted .282 with three triples and two homers. Split G PA AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI SB CS BB SO BA OBP SLG 1993 Totals 27 99 85…
The carded player list is out for the 2014 APBA baseball season set. This is the roster sheet that tells us what players will be represented on the APBA card set and disk for the 2014 season when it comes out. You can download the carded player list from APBA’s…
In honor of my Chicagoland Tournament choice of the 1987 Chicago Cubs, here’s Luis Quinones (that’s “kee-Nyo-naze” for you gringos) from the team. For the Cubbies, Luis hit .218 in 101 at-bats with six doubles and ten walks. He didn’t break the .300 mark in either slugging (.277) or OBP…