This week’s Monster Card is Ellis Kinder of the 1953 Boston Red Sox. The card you see is of the reprint set. His selection is somewhat significant as he is the first teammate of an existing Monster Card selection. Ted Williams of 1953 was already chosen a few weeks back. …
Steve Stein informs us that the Transcontinental Baseball League draft is now official. KC firstbaseman Eric Hosmer was the very first pick in the draft. You can see the results at the TBL website. The first five players picked in the TBL draft were: Eric Hosmer Freddie Freeman Mike Trout…
I connected up with Nick Braccia who is one of the organizers of this year’s APBA Convention scheduled for July 20-22, 2012. He graciously answered a few questions about the event. The APBA Blog: How did the idea for the 2012 convention come about? What APBA fans are the driving…
The Illowa APBA League ballot results are in for the 2011 awards and there weren’t too many surprises. Nor should there have been. Moline Upperdeckers firstbaseman Joey Votto took the MVP award unanimously. Votto led the IAL in homeruns (52), runs scored (137), slugging (.691) and OBP (.429) and came…
Yesterday, we heard from OAPBA. Today, the Roberto Clemente Memorial Baseball Association (RCMBA) chimes in with their 2012 draft results. John Briggs emails me with the details: “Our 15 team league held it’s annual rookie/free agent draft on Feb 4 (Sat). Those available are first time carded players and veterans…
Jason Giambi from 2011 maybe not be a Monster Card but he does excel in one category. The interesting thing is you may have to look closely to spot it. At first glance, it looks like part-time player Giambi just has a 1-1-0-0-0. But count the second column 1s. He…
Congrats to the Orlando APBA Association on starting its 25th year! Rod Caborn sends us this update: The Orlando APBA Assn. (OAPBA) launched their Silver Anniversary (25th year) with the 2012 annual draft, staged in Winter Park, Fla. Piranhas manager Dave Mitchell selected P James Shields with the first pick…
Facebook’s APBA Football’s Geoffrey Giordano alerted me to a great YouTube channel that has videos from the 2011 APBA Convention. The channel is put up by user APBAgames and at this writing has six videos from the Lancaster get-together. Here’s a good example showing pretty much everyone who was…
There will be an APBA convention this year. It’s being billed as the “2012 Convention for APBA Fans: Celebration of Heritage” and will be held in Lancaster, PA. It’s not clear to me who all is organizing it other than Francis Rose who says he is helping out. The quick…
Can’t help but posting this email I just received tonight from reader Beignet… “After twisting in the wind for a month about whether it’s time to move past my SOM/DMB fetishes, I figured out that I’ve never had more fun playing a baseball tabletop sim than I have with ABPA. …