Last night, it was a treat to have my buddy John Brandeberry help me out with the Monster-Terribles project. I gave him the Monsters, of course and they responded with quite an offensive display winning 20-0. Starter Ed Walsh did what he does best by pitching a one-hitter (thank you,…
On Facebook, Tom Zuppa had a few predictions for my Monsters vs. Terribles series before I started, • The Monsters will average at least 10 runs per game. • The Terribles will score a total of 10 runs. • A Monster starter will hit .500. • There will be a…
A couple days ago, John Cochrane informed me in a comment on a past article about APBA’s fake names from the 1990s that I had a name missing on the list. Thanks John! That reminded me that I’d hadn’t posted this list in a while. It’s worth doing so since…
Scott Veatch comes through with a very interesting card which could just as well work for Weird Card Wednesday, too. It’s 1964 Bob “Savvy” Saverine. Saverine was 23 years old but was already in his fifth year in baseball by the 1964 season with the Baltimore Orioles. Savvy Bob was…
1980 Brett: Two HR and five rbis in Game One Game 1 of my Monsters vs Terribles series is in the books and it went just how you probably would have expected it. Game #1 R H E Monday Monsters 15 19 0 Tuesday Terribles 0 6 2 WP- Mathewson…
by Scott Fennessy 9/24/1905 Chicago, IL This is it. The final scheduled meeting between these two battle hardened teams. Both managers had inspirational speeches prior to the game, with Frank Chance focusing on patience, and John McGraw’s rally cry was at a fever pitch, and focused on pitching and defense.…
As I started my Monster vs. Terribles series last night, I realized again that I never wrote an official Monster Card Monday article for Honus Wagner. Time to remedy that now. As old as some of us are, I’m pretty confident that none of us have seen Wagner play…
Starter Offa Neal is looks forward to a productive series *snicker* One last poll. I promise. Take a look at the final rosters of the Tuesday Terribles and the Monday Monsters. Just for fun, tell me how well do you think the Terribles will do against the Monsters in…
It’s been a few weeks since Geoff Giordano from the APBA Football Club started posting his series of Evolution of APBA Football videos but I just got around to watching them. Great stuff! Since I played the APBA Football Game as a kid, I’m posting the above video of…
I have the final rosters for my Terribles vs Monsters project! But one little thing to tidy up first… I’m calling it Bloggers’ Choice. I decided that Scott Fennessy and I have free reign to choose one player for each team. It could be any player written about that hasn’t…