My buddy John “Brando” Brandeberry is always surprising me with something. Most of the dice shakers I use are given to me by him, most of them handmade. This past weekend was no different. This time, however, it wasn’t homemade. It was ‘imported’ all the way from Boston’s Fenway Park. …
Chuck Lucas (right) receives the IAL World Championship trophy in 2009 I got an email from my friend Dom Provisiero who is the commissioner of the O.Z. League in New York. He’s trying to get some ideas for trophies for his league. For most of us, bragging rights is reward…
It’s not often I hear from a league that’s older than my league but The Baseball League (TBL) predates the IAL by a good eight years. Started in 1967, they have a rich history and have implemented some innovative modifications that manager John Wert talks about below. Info on TBL:…
by Scott Fennessy We continue our coverage of the 1905 Chicago Cubs replay. Having returned from a successful road trip the second place Cubs return home to play their arch rival St. Louis Cardinals. Doc Casey has returned from the DL and will be in the lineup today at third…
Last week’s Terrible Tuesday post got more positive feedback than I anticipated so I’ll continue the series. The theme is simple. Bad APBA cards. Unlike Monster Card Monday, these will only include cards with a sufficient amount of playing time. I’ll officially start it with a suggestion I got a…
This photo all about why I like our league All-Star Games… …all eyes are on the dice as they come out of cup. The people you see are the newly-named City Boys Division (formerly East Division) of the Illowa APBA League. The roller is Mike Raisanen who was helping us…
Gates Brown is your quintessential pinch hitter. On his Baseball Reference page, he’s listed first as a pinch hitter and then as a left fielder. Of his total 1051 games played in the majors (all for Detroit, by the way), an even 500 were as a pinch hitter. Overall, Brown…
by Scott Fennessy Well I am sill on my journey through the 1905 replay and while I am at the end of the month, but unfortunately there are a ton of double headers between me and the end of May 05. So while I won’t have my update as quickly…
The Illowa APBA League All-Star weekend is coming up this Friday. One of our annual duties that happens on these weekends (besides playing the actual All-Star game) is voting on new IAL Hall of Fame inductees. Here are the current players up for inductions from the IAL online ballot: Pedro…
It’s been a while since I missed a Monster Card Monday. Yesterday, it couldn’t be helped. It was one of those days. Then when I found the time, the website was down for a brief time. So I’m making it up with a one time only (maybe) ‘Terrible Tuesday’ …