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…
by Scott Fennessy West Side Grounds Chicago, IL 6/14/1905 The Cubs and Giants finish their 4 game set. The stadium today is full of energy as expectations are high after yesterdays continued escalation of this now very bitter feud. For the Giants “Snake” Wiltse is on the hill, facing “Buttons”…
Back East, the Transcontinental Baseball League conducted their 2013 draft yesterday in the midst of NEMO’s two feet of snow coming down. I communicated with Steve Stein and Walter Hunt of TBL beforehand and it did seem weather did play a role. At the time I contacted them, Steve said…
Mike Lizanich writes in about a new league formed around college friendships. The APBA Winter League is based in New Jersey and managers are all former frat brothers from Rutgers. The data on the APBA Winter League: League Name APBA Winter League Contact Person Mike Lizanich Sport Baseball # of…