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…
These are current registrants for the November 15th Chicagoland APBA Tournament. Name Team Jim Welch 1961 Detroit Tigers Fennessy, Scott 1993 Toronto Blue Jays Zawadzki, Rich 1967 Boston Red Sox Schuyler, Doug 1994 White Sox Saska, Jim 1935 Chicago Cubs Eller, Bob 1908 Chicago Cubs Bartel, Curt 1922 St. Louis…
Scott Fennessy passed on this extra-special Curtis Pride card from 1993 from when he played with the Montreal Expos. This was three whole years before he reached rookie status with the Tigers. No doubt, his APBA cards never got as good as this. What makes this card so special? Even…
In light of all the talk of predicting the 2014 APBA cards, reader Bill Evans has sent me his work. He crunched the numbers and has predicted the pitchers’ grades for the NL and AL hurlers. Bill has taken a different approach than previous ball-gazers, Mike Bunch and Bruce Norlander. …