John Mates on The APBA Blog Facebook page has a simple question: Need some help folks……..In YOUR opinion…….list the top ten APBA baseball cards put out for this year……excluding XB’s and XC’s Sounds like someone is getting ready for a draft ;-) I was going to answer this myself but…
As I mentioned on The APBA Blog Facebook page, I’m bringing back the APBA Fan Profile series. It took a little hiatus but since it was pretty popular, you’ll start seeing more of them this year. First up is Rich Zawadzki aka ‘Pastor Rich’. Those of you who frequent the…
by Scott Fennessy Chicago, IL 6/5/1905 North Side Park The Cubs and Pirates finish their series today with the Cubs having taken the first 3. Charlie Case vs. Mordecai Brown. Given the lackluster play from the Bucs lately I had my hopes high; sadly this was not the case. Getting…
With his passing, you had to know this was coming. In fact, I got a few emails this weekend suggesting that Musial be the choice for this week’s Monster Card. Fortunately, ‘Stan the Man’ made the job easy. I was picking through my APBA set collection and found a few…
Baseball lost two great ones on Saturday, that’s for sure. I live in Central Illinois and that’s bordering on Cardinal Nation. In fact, I’d say that at half the baseball fans here wear red. So the loss of Stan Musial was felt pretty hard. It goes without saying that Musial…
ldahoan Vance Law wins this week’s prize as Terrible Card Tuesday rolls around. True, the Pittsburgh infielder didn’t play much in 1981 with only 71 plate appearances but his card is pretty atrocious. Law was in his sophomore year with the Pirates in 1981. He only batted .134 with just…
This week’s Monster Card is 1982’s MVP, Robin Yount from the Milwaukee Brewers. When Pastor Rich Z suggested Yount and contributed his “well-used” card, my first thought was that he came from just down the road. Yount is from Danville, Illinois only 30-40 minutes away from where I live. Yount…
Just playing catch-up on a few things: Mel M was so happy he got his 2012 Master Card set he sent a photo. Thanks, Mel! – if you’re on Facebook, Dom Provisiero has initiated another one of his APBA Roll Calls. I love that Dom does these. They’re simple but…
I thought I’d just open the discussion up for anyone who’s interested in talking about the Hall of Fame ballot results. Here are the results from today. It was a shutout as far a the BBWAA ballot was concerned. It was the first time since 1996 that no one was…
Last week’s Terrible Card Tuesday included a barely passable 1991 Sammy Sosa with 1-6 and a 31-22. This week’s entry from the same year, 1991 Juan “Tito” Bell would probably love those kind of the numbers. Tito was the much younger brother of slugger George Bell. Apparently, George hoarded all…