by Scott Fennessy Chicago, IL 10/1/1905 The Phillies play the Cubs in game one of a double header. The Phillies send Ralph Caldwell, who has been lit up pretty well, but does have an X to face Jake Weimer. The Cubs are getting stronger as the season nears its end…
Jim Currie’s style of play-by-play calling is becoming a lost art. Here, he describes Steve Carlton’s no-hitter against the Mets in his 1982 replay. CARLTON FIRES NO HITTER!.OXFOURED LEAGUE’S FIRST GEM!! .ROSE, DERNIER, DIAZ SLAM BLEACHER BLASTS IN 10-0 GAME..METS AND SWAN TAKE THE LOSS! (1982)Lefty Carlton,no stranger to huge…
Scott Fennessy will be looking over the rules so he can defend his Chicagoland title The rules for the July 19th Chicagoland APBA Tournament are out! Jim Saska just sent them to me yesterday. You’ll find the whole list of rules below but for those who attended in November, Jim…
Big news from Boys of Summer APBA League commissioner Shawn Baier. Scott Diamond who pitches for Bill Gillam’s South Shore Fighting Imps, has pitched the league first perfect game! All, Got the word from Bill — 27 Up, 27 Down! Scott Diamond of the South Shore Fighting Imps pitches a…
As I’ve begun my little 21-game project between the Monday Monsters and the Tuesday Terribles, I of course wanted to keep stats. That was part of the fun, right? To establish how bad the Terribles were as opposed to the mighty Monsters. But did I really want to re-invent the…
Scott Fennessy just got the new 1984 APBA Baseball set and passed this Miguel Dilone card from the Expos along. With two 14*s and twelve 6*s to go with his two first column 11s, Dilone’s card is weird enough. But check out the result at 13, though. He has a…
Doug Gwosdz’ last name was a crazy mixture of letters leading to his nickname, “Eyechart”. It was actually pronounced “Goosh”. Though he lasted four years as a catcher for the Padres, he never hit above .176 in his first three seasons and hit only one lifetime homerun. It was in…
Lately, Mel M has been updating us with his 1967 AL replay. I just got an email from Mel that he completed the All-Star Game for his replay and he passed on his summary for us. Hey Tom, here’s a recap of my all star game. Welcome to sunny California…
Browsing through my 1934 set, I ran across this James “Rip” Collins aka “the Ripper”. First baseman Ripper Collins had a career year for the 1934 World Champion Gas House Gang St. Louis Cardinals. He led the National League with 35 homers, 369 total bases and a .615 slugging percentage. …
by Scott Fennessy Chicago, IL 9/30/1905 The Cubs complete their final full month of play by hosting the offense challenged Braves today. The Braves send Irv Young to the mound. Young has had a fine season, and deserves a much better record than he has ended the season with, but…