APBA has announced their new online version of their Baseball game, appropriately called APBA Online. In tandem with this announcement comes an additional web domain name for the company. To register, create or join a league and buy tokens to play, you can go to http://apbabaseball.com. There are plenty of…
Yes, that’s me to the right at last week’s Chicagoland Tournament. The photo is courtesy of good friend Pastor Rich Zawadzki. I have that look so I must be losing to Jim Saska. Tournament champion Scott Fennessy (on the left) has an air of confidence about him on the other…
In honor of Scott Fennessy’s win at the Chicagoland APBA Tournament, I present Theophilus Fountain “Offa” Neal of the 1905 New York Giants. Baseball Reference has his first name primarily listed as just “Offa”. I was playing my second series of our divisional at the tournament on Saturday and sitting…
I was ready to feature 1905 Christy Mathewson in honor of his MVP performance at the Chicagoland Tournament. Alas, he’s been used up. I wrote him up last year. So courtesy of Pastor Rich, it’s Rogers Hornsby visiting the Monster Card column once again. It’s his 1929 season this time,…
And to think that Scott Fennessy almost didn’t make it the Chicagoland Tournament. Scott emailed a month ago and told me he wanted to come but just couldn’t arrange transportation. I told him not to worry. We’d figure out a way. I’m glad we did. Scott had no trouble managing…
I’m not sure where to start. With so much happening at yesterday’s amazing Chicagoland Tournament, there is so much to talk about. I’ll probably stretch it out over a couple articles. For now, we’ll start with the “official” press release. Clark Eichman (left) and Scott Fennessy wish each other luck…
Thanks to Scott Veatch who sent last week’s 1964 Great Teams of Past mailing, we have another one from his treasure vault. It’s the annual mailing announcing the 1965 edition of the APBA Baseball cards. As much as some of us long for the days of old, reading these mailings…
With these specs, Frank Howard can see just fine. He’s leading the AL in homers. Mel M sends us a quick snapshot of his ongoing 1967 AL replay. Mel is using the APBA Baseball Master Game for this project. June 25. W- L. GB Tigers. 46-24. - Roaring through June.…
by Scott Fennessy Chicago, IL 8/9/1905 The Cubs face the Giants in a big game 2 of this series. The Giants won a thriller in 11 innings yesterday behind yet another big day by Mike Donlin who is leading the majors in batting average coming into today’s action. Today’s task…
I thought last week’s Terrible Card was pretty bad but Jacinto “Jackie” Hernandez’ 1966 card gives Cleo James’ 1973 card a run for its money. The suggestion of Hernandez comes from Scott Veatch who sent in the scan of the 1964 GTOP mailing (which by the way, has been quite…