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’ …
John Briggs sends us a great 2012 season wrap-up of the Roberto Clemente Memorial Baseball Association. -Tom We have just completed our 38th season and crowned a new champion. Ed Farmer has guided his Uniontown Red Raiders to their second RCMBA title! As you can see by the photo on…
I’m a little late with this since Brian Cavanaugh sent me this update a couple weeks ago. It worth reading though since it’s the season summary of the Bridesburg Boys and Girls Club APBA League. This is the third year of existence of the BBGCAL. Brian organizes the league with…
I’m chronicling the exploits of Tyler “51-13” Colvin as he makes it through the 2012 season on my IAL Twin City Thunderchickens. With the Illowa APBA League in a short hiatus with our late All-Star break this year, there hasn’t been a lot of dice rolling in the league lately. …
by Scott Fennessy Now that I have been given permission to give a game by game of the 1905 Cubs season we follow their progress 2 games after having split with their strongest challengers the NY Giants. Since then in the opening game of the series they lost to the…
Many thanks to Chad Osborne who edits the blog 108 Problems But The Stitches Ain’t One. He mentions The APBA Blog’s Monster Card Monday weekly feature in one of his recent posts, Monster Idea Already Taken. Billed as “Baseball, Life and Other Stuff”, the 108 Problems website covers general baseball…
by Scott Fennessy I am still in the process of my second full season replay, and unlike in my 1901 replay I had a little “history” on replays so I had some dilemmas for the first time ever. I wanted to start right away with another season and although the…