Lefty Grove deserves a mention in this column and there’s no time like the present. Grove’s stats are amazing enough but what makes them most unbelievable is that he accomplished them in the batters’ heyday of late 20s and early 30s. When teams were scoring well over 5 runs a…
Lesson learned… always keep a neat boxscore because you never know how important the game might be. I played a Skype series against Mike Bunch for our Illowa APBA League. My Twin City Thunderchickens weren’t hitting against Mike’s Green Rock Bombers for the whole series but I certainly wasn’t prepared…
Like clockwork, fellow IAL manager Don Smith sent out a wrap-up of how the early rookie picks are doing in the majors. It’s become a tradition in the IAL for Don to post the results of the first round players but this year, he’s doing the second round as well…
by Scott Fennessy Chicago, IL 7/7/13 The Cubs and Pirates meet this afternoon in Game 2 of this double header. The Cubs have won two of the first three games, including a very tight early game today that cost them Jake Weimer’s services for 3 starts. Deacon Phillippe for the…
Ken Heard posted an excellent list of required reading on his blog, Love, Life and APBA. The impetus for Ken was to help those of us who do replays and find good written resources to motivate us and get us in the right frame of mind for when we roll…
Take a sip of a mint julep and be prepared for a trip down retro-APBA lane. How many of you watched the Kentucky Derby this past weekend? I admit I watched it while visiting my family this past weekend. It’s amazing how much hoopla the sports media can whip up…
We haven’t had a Negro League Monster Card in a while and this one is quite worthy. This is Hall of Famer Pete Hill and this card is based on Hill’s 1910 season with the Chicago Leland Giants. Now, I raised this before with Josh Gibson’s entry but I wonder…
by Scott Fennessy The Cubs face the Pirates in game 2 of this series. The bucs have been playing well and look to close ground on the Cubs. Sam Leever faces Mordecai Brown. Both pitchers have struggled at times, and also looked strong, so I don’t know what to expect.…
Geoff Schmitt has passed on the results of golf tournaments he has done. According to Geoff, this tournament was done using the APBA Golf for Windows Game with 171 golfers in each tournament. I’m posting the results of the first one. Some notes from Geoff first: The tournaments are in…
This week’s Terrible Card comes from the 1986 World Champion New York Mets. Kevin Elster was just a rookie and didn’t put in much time, only 33 plate appearances. He didn’t make much of an impact with those precious at-bats, either. In his debut, “Kev” Elster went 5 for 30…