“Solo homers usually come with no one on base.” -Ralph Kiner Yes, I know. I promised I’d do Bill Terry. That will have to wait for another week. With the recent passing of slugger Ralph Kiner at the age of 91, I thought it was appropriate that he would get…
I finally got around to updating the Illowa APBA League website. It pales compared to some of the league websites I’ve seen (there are some fantastic ones out there!) but the relevant info is up for you to see. The biggest updates I’ve made are to the all-time registry and…
by Scott Fennessy Well the dog days of August have ended, and there is just over a month left in the season. The National League has seen the Giants enormous lead over the Cubs vanish, and the Pirates come and go from the chase, leaving Chicago as the only team…
For this week’s Flashback Friday, we’re heading back into Scott Veatch’s Vault. This time, we’re going to find a 1964 APBA Golf brochure from 1964. For the time, these 1964 brochures looked pretty snazzy with full-color photos of the game This brochure follows the same format as the other glossy…
Hank Konkel emails The APBA Blog with some details on Legends of the Game. LotG is unique in that it’s a retro BBW league. The league itself started in 2012 but chronologically, the seasons they played started in 1961. They are now beginning the 1963 season this year. You can…
Now this should be fun! It’s time to vote for the Monsters firstbaseman in my Terribles vs Monsters project (more info here on this project). Unlike the field for the Terribles team, there was plenty of firstbasemen to choose from. I actually had to pare it down a bit. No…
by Scott Fennessy 9/5/1905 Pittsburgh, PA Ed Reulbach faces Charlie Case in game two of today’s twin bill. “Big Ed” has looked great the last three times out and I am really hoping for a sweep as this will guarantee they have at least a tie for first if the…
A couple weeks ago, I featured Jose Oquendo and his 1988 space-challenged card for this column. That prompted me to look for a player who was on my Twin City Thunderchickens a few years back, Felipe Lopez from 2010. While Lopez didn’t play every position that year (he never got…
The APBA league draft reports keep comin’ in. John Briggs from the Roberto Clemente Memorial Baseball Association sends us a summary of the RCMBA’s draft last weekend: The RCMBA held it’s annual free agent draft on February 1st. Yasiel Puig was the first selection followed by Jose Fernandez and Wil…
John Ganzel’s 1901 card comes from Scott Fennessy. Truth be told, his card probably shouldn’t be considered too terrible since he is from the deadball era. But compared to most any other full time firstbasemen, Ganzel’s card is lacking. Ganzel batted .215 with a slugging average of .262. He hit…