I won’t blame you if you don’t know who Alfred “Skip” Jutze is. I’m a fan of 1970s baseball and even I couldn’t place the name. Judging by his hitting numbers in the majors, it’s easy to see why. In his six year career, he managed a .215 batting average…
Pastor Rich sent this 1920 Babe Ruth card to me last week. I know I’ve done the Babe before on MCM but this is one of my favorite monster cards of all time. To me, it’s what defines a monster card for a full time player. Offensively, 1920 was a…
by Scott Fennessy West Side Grounds Chicago, IL 6/15/1905 The Cubs and Dodgers meet today and I am not sure what to expect. Brooklyn has been downright awful so far, but Mordecai Brown is kind of struggling this year. That said the Dodgers have only 2 hitters above .200. Elmer…
Stray Corrado informed me that the Mid-West Baseball League has completed its 2013 Annual Draft. And what a draft it was! There was 336 picks for the 28 teams and the draft lasted for more than six and half hours. Only the first class MWBL could pull this off. For…
Donald Williamson writes to tout his league called the National Master Continuous Draft League. As the name implies, it’s a APBA Master Game Baseball League. Though I don’t play it as much as I used to, I’m glad to see they’re still around. So much more strategy and realism in…
by Scott Fennessy West Side Grounds, Chicago, IL 6/15/1905 The Cubs face the Brooklyn Dodgers for game 2 of their series today. Brooklyn has the worst record in the NL, almost 100 points behind the equally brutal Boston Braves. Only the amazingly bad St. Louis Browns have a worse record.…
Christopher Linden of the National Master Continuous Draft League (aka NMCDL aka “N-1450”) contacted me last night. Though his main purpose was to ask about finding managers to fill spots in his league, he did want to tell me how much he enjoys Scott Fennessy’s Deadball replay updates. If you…
I found this Chico Ruiz card in the Cincinnati Reds envelope of my 1965 set and it practically made me wince. For the Reds, he went 2 for 18 but scored seven runs which made me think he was used primarily as a pinch runner in 1965. Split G GS…
Newest TBL Hall of Fame inductee Rich Meyer As I was following up with the Transcontinental Baseball League’s Walter Hunt on their weekend’s wintry draft, he mentioned that they inducted one of their managers into the TBL Hall of Fame. Richard Meyer, winner of six TBL championships, is the fourth…
At age 46, it almost seemed Grover Hartley wasn’t ready to retire. In his last year with the last year, he went one for three with with a double and a walk with the New York Giants. As a matter of fact, that was after a three year hiatus when…