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. …
This kind of like the tree in the forest question. What happens when a player doesn’t get a hit in a season… does he get a hit number?? When APBA published Charles ‘Chick’ Fullis’ 1930 card in 1989, they said yes. They gave him two 11s and a 10 but…
Two weeks ago, I talked about Ichiro Suzuki and how he was drafted in the Illowa APBA League’s first round along with Albert Pujols. My friend Don Smith said he would have drafted Ichiro even if Pujols was still there. Well, this is what Don would have had three years…
…for one game at least. I just got an email Steve Fennessy who does the fantastic updates on his 1905 Cubs replay here on The APBA Blog. He gave me heads up on an exciting pitchers’ duel between Tully Sparks and Irv Young. …In other news Tully Sparks and…
I’ve gotten a few emails lately from people who have the older boards but have bought newer card sets. The dilemma arises with the newer pitching ratings, the ‘K’ and the ‘R’. How to handle these ratings when your boards don’t reflect these changes is the big question. David Glancy…
Rolling Dice Taking Names has a feature article on APBA Baseball. It’s a “look-back-to-yesteryear” piece describing what it was like before fantasy baseball took over the baseball recreation scene. And yes, I believe I still have a copy of those cardboard playing boards. As for those red discs.. ehhh. I…
I’m not used to seeing 1930 cards on Tuesday. They’re quite the favorite on Monday. The inaptly-named Homer Peel played for three teams in the National League between the years of 1927 and 1934. In those years, he did manage one “homer” in 1933. However, he couldn’t knock one out…
by Scott Fennessy 6/26/1905 Chicago, IL The Cubs face the Reds in game 2 of this series. The Reds played well yesterday and came up with a tough loss. For the Reds Bob Ewing (right), a grade A pitcher who has had two very tough luck losses against Jake Weimer…