This week’s Terrible Card is from 1934 and belongs to Herman ‘Flea’ Clifton. So named, I suppose, because of light weight of 160 pounds. His hitting was a bit lightweight too. He hit .063 (1 for 16) in his rookie year in 1934. While it improved to .255 in 110…
A look at the newly redesigned diamond for APBA Baseball… APBA has announced via their latest newsletter that they are rebuilding the APBA Baseball and APBA Football games. Via the newsletter, here are the pertinent details: “We are rebuilding these games. There are no changes to the boards, except the…
“I’ve got more action than my man, John Woo And I’ve got mad hits like I was Rod Carew” -“Sure shot”, Beastie Boys I remember Rod Carew’s season of 1977. That was the year he threatened the .400 mark with the Minnesota Twins. If you look at his game…
In yesterday’s quite popular fan profile of Dan Velderrain, Scott Fennessy was asking in the comments about Dan’s dice tower. He wanted to know what it looked like and how it was used. Well Sgt. Dan has come through with photos of his tower! Dan says: “First pic is my…
Reader Shawn Kaufman writes in with a drafting question: Hi Tom, I just was curious about your thoughts on drafting. I have never been in a league that conducts an annual draft. I have also been playing with the Great Teams Volume 1 set of teams lately & picked 8…
For this APBA Fan Profile, I had the pleasure to get to know Dan Velderrain of the Southern California Baseball League. I’m glad I did and it makes me wish I could meet him in person (that really goes for pretty much everyone I’ve interviewed. The fan profile is one…
Last year, my Twin City Thunderchickens weren’t the best hitting team in the Illowa APBA League. They didn’t have the best pitching staff either. But dang if they didn’t have the best middle infield the IAL had ever seen. It’s not often you see a SS-10 and a 2b-9 on…
The results of the recent draft of the All American Baseball Association had been recently sent to our league’s email list. Seeing as they use very similar draft eligibility rules as we do, we paid close attention. Our contact and friend at AABA is commissioner Nick Tegeler who has been…
by Scott Fennessy West Side Grounds Chicago, IL 6/18/1905 The Cubs face the Brooklyn Dodgers for the series finale. John McIntire, one of only 2 C starters in the league goes for the Dodgers while “Big Jeff” Pfeffer a B makes his first start of the year for the Cubs.…
Just a few emails I’ve gotten in the past few days from APBA fans: Mel M writes: Hi Tom, I rolled a game today for 6/10/67 between the Indians and Athletics where there was only one assist for the A’s. First baseman Ramon Webster had no chances. The lone assist…