Last week, I presented 1978 NL MVP Dave Parker for the Monster Card selection. This week, let’s look at the AL selection for MVP in 1978, Boston Red Sox outfielder Jim Rice. In a lot of ways, the two players are very similar for the 1978 season. Both outfielders won…
by Scott Fennessy 7/14/1905 New York, NY The Cubs face the Giants in the series finale today. This has been all Giants so far. Carl Lundgren is subbing for the injured Ed Reulbach and faces lefty George “Snake” Wiltse of the Giants. Wiltse gets a perfect first and things start…
A couple days ago, I posted an example of what instructions for an APBA mail series for baseball might look like. I have to admit, they pale in comparison to what John Briggs put together for his team in the Roberto Clemente Memorial Baseball Association. Not only are they complete…
Congratulations to the new APBA Hall of Famers, the father-son duo of Greg and Brian Wells! They were inducted at this weekend’s national APBA Convention in Atlanta. Kevin Cluff made the official announcement on the APBA Between the Lines forum: A hearty congratulations to Brian and Greg Wells who were…
A couple “streaky” updates from my friend John Brandeberry who is replaying the 1930 season: Johnny Frederick of the Brooklyn Dodgers got a hit in his final at bat to extend his hitting streak to 48 games. In the American League Al Simmons has a 42 game hitting streak. In…
l have been asked in the past about how APBA leagues work in general and in specific, how exactly do managers send instructions to each other when they don’t play face-to-face. Since I wasn’t able to get together face-to-face with fellow manager Todd Ventresca (left) this month, I wrote up…
by Scott Fennessy 7/13/1905 New York, NY The Cubs face the Giants in game three of this series, and it has been all Giants so far. Bob Wicker is subbing for the injured Jake Weimer and faces the very tough Joe McGinnity of the Giants. Billy Maloney draws a leadoff…
Apologies for not having a scan of a “real” card. I’m on vacation now. Rest assured, this computer-generated one is accurate as far as I know. Dioner Navarro made some news recently when he inexplicably hit three homeruns on May 31for the Cubs. I remember thinking “where did THAT come…
As some of you know, I’m traveling East this week. We went through Pittsburgh a few days ago and that’s one town that loves their sports. So I thought a juicy Dave Parker would be an appropriate Monster Card for this week. This card comes from Parker’s MVP season of…
by Scott Fennessy 7/10/1905 Pittsburgh, PA The Cubs travel to Pittsburgh to play the Pirates in what was a 3 game set that was trimmed to 1 to get to the 140 games I wanted. The Cubs have been struggling lately between Pitching issues and injuries, and the Pirates are…