This 1962 card of reliever Don Ferrarese is a double edged sword. He’s got a big hitting card but just make sure he doesn’t hit a grounder. I know my baseball but Ferrarese was a new name to me. He pitched eight years in the late 50s and early 60s…
Stepping back a little from the nuts and bolts of the upcoming Chicago Tournament, it seems to me that there is an upswing of grassroots APBA activity organized by APBA fans. Geoff Giordano of the APBA Football Club got APBA Football fans together earlier this year in Canton Ohio. Of…
The Chicagoland APBA World Series Tournament is just one week away! I’m so ready for this to happen! Organizer Jim Saska just sent out info on tournament format for the upcoming tourney which starts at 9am on November 16th at the Woodstock, Illinois Public Library. Jim writes: We’re exactly…
Just last week, my buddy Brando helped Sandy Koufax to the first no-hitter of my 1966 NL replay. That game was on April 30th in my replay. Well, Brando’s done it again in just under a week. He emailed me this week telling me he had a no-hitter in his…
This feature isn’t incredibly new on Baseball Reference but I’ve been using it so much in my 1966 replay I thought I’d pass it on in case anyone else isn’t aware of it. You may find it useful if you are a replayer especially if you stick to actual lineups. …
One of the benefits of being connected on Facebook’s APBA Baseball group is that you get to meet APBA players that you wouldn’t otherwise. Last week, during a Facebook thread about Rod Carew’s 1977 APBA card, I got talking to Scott Veatch who lives in Wyoming and has played APBA…
As I noted last week, I finally reached the end of April in my 1966 NL APBA baseball replay. Relatively speaking, it’s been slow going but I consider this a nice milestone. Here’s a quick rundown of the parameters of my replay: I’m using APBA Basic Baseball (new booklet) no…
by Scott Fennessy Chicago, IL 8/7/1905 The Cubs/Giants war continues today as Ed Reulbach faces George Wiltse in what should be one of the biggest mismatches of the year as the Cubs A&C faces a B. That said, never trust a man whose nickname is “Snake”. He has been having…
Reader Ken Castro just got an 1973 baseball season and ran across this Cleo James card. He thought it would be a perfect fit for the Terrible Tuesday Column. Indeed, I’ve done this feature for a while now and this is one of the strangest cards I’ve seen. But first,…
Before I get started, I’d like to recognize reader Aaron Wilson. Some of you may have seen last week’s 2-year anniversary Monster Card Monday featuring Ted Williams. Aaron saw the article and emailed and reminded me how he is partly responsible for the feature’s creation. He’s right. Two years ago,…