I took a week off from Monster Card Monday so I better make this count. I think it will. I promised Pastor Rich Zawardzki that I’d put up Willie Mays’ 1954 card. Indeed, it’s worthy of this column. This was Mays’ breakout season when he not only led the NL…
by Scott Fennessy The Cubs are back on the road to St. Louis after a demoralizing series loss at home against the Reds. The Cubs face the Redbirds in a double header today. Game 1 features Ed Reulbach against John Taylor The Cubs come out fired up for this one.…
by Scott Fennessy Chicago, IL 7/1/1905 Well the month of July has finally arrived. The Cubs start the month mired in their worst stretch of this year, combined with the Giants brutalization on the bottom feeders of the league they find themselves in second place 2 ½ games behind. As…
Mel M writes in with a report of a no-hitter in his 1967 replay… for the second time. Phil Ortega of the Washington Senators hurled a no-hitter today against the New York Yankees. Ortega walked two batters and one Yankee was safe on an error by shortstop Eddie Brinkman in…
Here’s another entry for The APBA Blog Dice Shaker Project. My buddy John “Brando” Brandeberry designed and crafted a new dice shaker for fellow manager Todd Ventresca and presented it to him this past weekend. Nice prize for the IAL Manager of the Year! Unlike mine which nice and hefty,…
This past weekend at the Comfort Inn in Downers Grove, the ten managers of the Illowa APBA League got together and we finished our post season for the 2012, conducted our 2013 draft and started our new season by each playing the first thirty games of the season. Here are…
by Scott Fennessy Today I wanted to talk about the APBA lineup. I certainly don’t consider myself an expert by any means. When I first learned to play I had no mentor, just another person who had been playing for a couple of years; and I know I got pounded…
In less than 12 hours, I’ll be heading up to the Chicago area for the 2013 Illowa APBA League World Series and Draft weekend. As usual, I’ll be traveling up with my cross-town buddy John Brandeberry. Brando will most likely be in more of hurry than I as he has…
by Scott Fennessy 6/27/1905 Chicago, IL The Cubs face the Reds in game 3 of this series. The Reds have played very tough this series and are showing the first real signs of life this year. Today Charlie Chech goes for Cincinnati, and he has pitched better than his 3-12…
With the coming of opening day, also comes the corresponding email notification from kilg.us with stats from my preset team I put in last year. I’ll admit, I was happily surprised to see that in my inbox. I didn’t even have to re-activate it. It just started back up again. …