by Scott Fennessy Philadelphia, PA 7/24/1905 The Cubs continue their road swing moving from Boston to Philadelphia to face the fading Phillies. The Phillies had at one time looked like a threat to enter the then two team race with the Cubs and Giants, but then Hugh Duffy suffered a…
I received my new APBA baseball boards a couple days ago! I believe it was Ron Taylor who said on Facebook that someone should post an unboxing video on YouTube. I thought since many people had a lot of questions about the boards and the game itself, I would do…
Wednesday night, my buddy John Brandeberry picked me up for another night of APBA at his house. I had brought my 1966 NL cards thinking we would play a couple games from my replay. We did that and more. We got a whole days worth in. We replayed the day…
I’m only a week and a half into my 1966 replay and I’ve already noticed a mistake. It’s not a huge mistake and nothing I’ll lose sleep over but I had to come up with a solution for it. To put it simply, pitcher Billy Hoeft appeared in a game…
While NL infielder Darrel Chaney wasn’t much of a hitter for his whole career (.217 lifetime average), he didn’t do himself any favors in last season in 1979. That year he hit .162 with a pathetic .205 slugging percentage. I will give Chaney credit for staying around for eleven years. …
This odd Monster Card comes to us from Rich Ozz Selg who shared it on Facebook. It’s Sparky Lyle’s card from 1981 (is it me or did a lot of strange cards come from that season set?). His pitching skills had started to deteriorate by then but apparently his base…
by Scott Fennessy Boston, MA 7/22/1905 The Cubs play the Braves and go for the sweep in the series finale. Mordecai Brown faces Vic Willis today. Brown has been pitching great lately, and while Willis has thrown well this year, he seems to be let down by the serious lack…
For those replayers who use actual lineups and rotations, I’ve found if you do enough research, there are answers out there for some of the questions that may puzzle us. Such is the case of St Louis Cardinals’ George Kernek. First baseman Kernek is an XC in my 1966 set…
My setup with APBA booklet, dice, cards, a little caffeine and BaseballReference.com up on the laptop I finally got my 1966 replay off the ground again tonight. Just two games but it’s a good start. In Game, I see that Willie McCovey hasn’t forgotten he’s on a hot streak. He…
by Scott Fennessy Boston, MA 7/21/1905 The Cubs play the Braves in 3 of this 4 game series. Jake Weimer and Irv Young meet up in a battle of two of the NL’s elite pitchers. They last faced each other early in the year and Weimer came out on top…