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…
What to do with Mike Trout? My friend Dan Velderrain contacted me and asked a favor regarding his team in the Southern California Baseball League, the Saddleback Sharks: I was wondering if you could help me…. Even though I am 20-10, I feel like I should be scoring more runs….…
This week’s MCM entry is ‘Gorgeous’ George Sisler who it turns out was a Big Ten alum, hailing from the University of Michigan (I learned something new today). This card is from the year of 1922 when he led the AL with a .420 batting average. Sisler had the privilege…
The other day, I wrote about APBA leagues and what they are all about. As it turns out, today is the 28th which is the monthly due date for the Illowa APBA League’s stats to be turned in to the commissioner. A little league trivia: The reason it’s the 28th…
I really have to hand it to people like Scott Fennessy, my friend John Brandeberry and every else who has the patience to do a APBA replay. There are lots of games to play and stats to keep but the rewards are there too. Brando is a fellow manager in…
Scott Fennessy passed on a very interesting card from the 1901 season set. Interesting in a couple ways. First, while Scott passed this Harrison card on to me, both he and I didn’t know if he fit neatly into one of my categories. He has no hit numbers which is…
by Scott Fennessy The Cubs face the redbirds in game two of today’s twin bill. The Cubs crushed their archrivals 18-4 in the opener, and there was plenty of bad blood coming into the late afternoon game. Mordecai Brown faces Jake Thielman The Cubs seem to have found their bats…