by Scott Fennessy 8/23/1905 Brooklyn, NY The Cubs face the Dodgers in the series finale today and are going for the four game sweep. Today’s action features Mordecai Brown (right) against William Scanlan in a rematch of the first game in which was a closely fought battle. In his pre-game…
As some of you know, the baseball data disk doesn’t allow for extrapolation for the pitcher ratings of R, K and ZZ as well as the steal asterisks on batting cards. With the arrival of the new set, we now know who has these ratings. Reader John Briggs who just…
by Scott Fennessy 8/22/1905 Brooklyn, NY GAME ONE The Cubs face the Dodgers in a double header today. I am still amazed at their fortune of late. Pitching is really rounding out, and although Frank Chance is the only player really doing well, he is getting just enough help to…
John Williams brought me back to my school days when he sent me photos of this APBA Baseball World Series Game booklet. John saw my previous Flashback Friday post that featured the brochure for the World Series Game set which included the league champions for six different seasons and thought…
For most of you on Facebook, this won’t be news but I thought it was worth bringing to the wider audience. It started as a simple post on the APBA Baseball group by Tom Zuppa last week linking to an article about this year’s candidates for the Baseball Hall of…
I almost didn’t have a Weird Wednesday column lined up for this week but Kevin Burghardt from Janesville, Wisconsin just posted this interesting card on Facebook. Kevin says this is “one of Charlie Finley’s designated pinch runners, this one not named Herb Washington”. Indeed. This Don Hopkins card is based…
by Scott Fennessy 8/21/1905 Brooklyn, NY The Cubs move across town from New York to Brooklyn to face the lowly Dodgers after a stunning and much needed sweep of the Giants and the Cubs are now on a serious roll. Oddly enough other than Frank Chance, most of the bats…
Not to be confused with his brother Bubbles Hargrave who was also a catcher (and won the batting title in 1926, William McKinley “Pinky” Hargrave was a journeyman catcher in the 1920s and early 1930s. In 1924, Hargrave hit .147 (5 for 34) with one double and one triple. He…
by Scott Fennessy 8/19/1905 New York, NY The Cubs face the Giants in the series finale and go for the all-important sweep. This is the one game I feel the Cubs can overpower the league leaders as “Big-Ed” Reulbach an A&C starter faces George Wiltse, a curve ball specialist and…
While I was playing a few APBA baseball games with my friend Shawn Lee on Sunday night, we went through the 1962 season reprint set I brought over. I reached for the NL champion Giants and this card popped out at me. It’s Willie Mays’ homerun leading card. He hit…