Scott Veatch contributed today’s Terrible Card, 1969 Billy Grabarkewitz of the Los Angeles Dodgers. This XB card in its trademark black and white format is a most deserving entry indeed. Scott Veatch writes about Grabarkewitz: “It hurts for me to include the Billy Grabarkewitz card. I’m a Dodger fan and…
Okay, I’ll admit it. I’m sneaking in this 1930 Freddie Lindstrom card (courtesy of Pastor Rich) today because I want to include him in my Terribles vs Monsters poll for thirdabsemen. He deserves a chance to play for the big boys. His card is one of favorites from the 1930…
After a short break for league drafts, I’m back at it again with the Terribles vs Monsters polling. This time we’re voting for the Monsters’ shortstop. More info on my project here, by the way. In this poll, we have two 1980s shortstops sandwiched between a deadball era Hall of…
Scott Fennessy 9/15/1905 St. Louis, MO The Cubs face the Cardinals in an odd stretch. This was originally a 3 game set that was cut to one to get to the desired 140 game amount. I really hope this was the last of the schedule adjustments, but I did them…
Mel M sends in this rather odd card. It’s Mike Ryba from the 1936 St. Louis Cardinals. It’s unusual in that Ryba is rated at both pitcher and catcher. He’s rated as a D1Y pitcher and a Catcher-5. Year Tm Lg Age Pos G GS Inn Ch PO A E…
Mel M sent me this 1936 Hal Finney card for Terrible Tuesday. I looked up his stats with Pittsburgh Pirates and did a double take. I’ll let you ponder them for a second or two… Split G GS PA AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI SB BB SO BA…
After two days with little sleep, the Illowa APBA League’s Draft weekend is over. In that time, the IAL postseason was played, we had our annual league meeting, we conducted our 2014 rookie draft and lastly, we started the 2014 season with each team playing their first 30 games of…
After many years, my friend Chuck Lucas has finished his 1959 AL replay! I posted a teaser about this on Facebook and the big question was “Did the Sox win it all”? Well, the answer is a resounding ‘Yes’! With three 20-game winners, the White Sox won it by an…
This week’s Terrible Card comes from the 1966 reprint set. It’s Johnny Herrnstein who I mentioned in an article last year when I began my ‘66 NL replay. Herrnstein batted 48 times and managed 8 singles for a .178 batting average with three walks. He drove home two runs and…
by Scott Fennessy 9/11/1905 Cincinnati, OH The Cubs are going for a critical sweep as a victory would give them a 1 game lead over the idle Giants. They are then off for a couple of days while the Giants have three games with the lowly Dodgers. It won’t be…