An OF-1 with a 25-13… ouch. To be accurate, 1982 Dan Briggs didn’t play much in the outfield for the Chicago Cubs. He only took the field 14 times in 48 games and only started twice. Looking at his APBA card, you can probably see why. It was Briggs’ last…
In the hitting-lean 1966 season, Frank Robinson led the Baltimore Orioles to an AL pennant and then later to a World Championship over the Los Angeles Dodgers. He had help of course, from a quite studly Oriole pitching staff plus some helpful glovework from his “brother” Brooks Robinson. But it…
by Scott Fennessy Chicago, IL 8/4/1905 The Cubs continue their chase of the Giants with the Pirates closing a still somewhat large gap, but are playing well. The Cubs get some big news today as Ed Reulbach will return to the team today, and reclaim his spot at the head…
An open letter to my friend, Dan Velderrain, Earlier this year, you asked me to take your Saddleback Sharks team and make a lineup out of them. I did and posted the results here on the blog. To be honest, I had a blast doing it. It’s always fun looking…
Chuck Lucas is a long time friend and a fellow Illowa APBA League member. At league conventions, we would trade stories about what solo projects we were working on and I’m quite familiar with his 1959 replay he’s currently doing. For a while now, I have been asking if he’d…
Now that the MLB season is over, many of us are crunching some of the 2013 stats. John Briggs is making it easy for those of us replayers and league members who are sticklers for the details by breaking down the pitchers’ starting and relief innings. He sent me the…
Future All-Star Cristian Guzman had a rough start in his rookie year for the Twins in 1999. Maybe it wasn’t all that horrible given that Minnesota stuck with him for the year. He started 126 of his 131 games at short. But his .226/.267/.276 his nothing to write home…
Some of us APBA baseball players are gearing up for the 2nd Chicagoland APBA World Series Tournament. A couple weeks ago, I posted an interview with Doug Schuyler who is helping organize the event. Doug certainly isn’t working alone, though. Co-organizer Jim Saksa from Woodstock, Illinois has been an integral…
Once again, Pastor Rich didn’t know what he was getting himself into with his Monster Card suggestions. Last week he suggested 1998 Mark McGwire for a Monster Card not realizing that card’s importance to my one and only IAL Championship team. This week, he mentions 1974 Ken Holtzman. Aside from…
Today, Doug Schuyler texted me a question regarding a save situation in his solo replay tournaments. I knew the answer (I think) but I decided to research the evolution of the rules governing the save statistic anyway. Here’s how the MLB save rule stands right now: A relief pitcher is…