This week for MCM, I’m going with a pitcher. Specifically, Carlos Zambrano of 2008. Heck, choose most any year and you’ll get a good hitting card for Zambrano (though 2010 was a down year with the bat for the Big Z). While a lot of pitchers get some juicy APBA…
For those in APBA leagues and those considering replaying the 2011 season, this post on High Heat Stats be of interest. It will probably just confirm what we’ve already suspected… MLB offense was down across the board. I knew offense was down but not to this extent perhaps not this…
Pujols showing us how many rbis he had for me last weekend Just some random ramblings and rants as the Illowa APBA League enters the homestretch of our 2011 season. Opponents have nothing to fear from my Twin City Thunderchickens… we’re 61-83 and set firmly in last place. My buddy…
Congratulations to Joe Passiatore! He just managed the Platoon to another Orlando APBA Association title! Rod Caborn sent in the update: Joe Passiatore’s Platoon (48-32) upset Dave Larson’s favored Taz Devils (56-24) to win the 2011 Orlando APBA Association title. The Platoon rolled over the surprisingly punchless Tazmen in…
As I mentioned last week, I sent in my ballot for the Illowa APBA League Hall of Fame. League VP Rob Moore announced the ballot results in the comments but I thought I’d give them their due here. The members of the IAL Hall of Fame class of 2011 are:…
This is the second in new Monster Card Monday series. You know him, you love him. By popular demand, here comes George Puccinelli of 1930. Puccinelli is probably pretty obscure in the history of baseball unless you are an APBA player. He played for a total of 187 games and…
My friend Chuck Lucas is doing a replay of the 1959 season. ‘Luke’ is a manager in a league I’m in, the IAL. He’s also a big baseball history buff and a huge White Sox fan. So I guess it’s no surprise that he chose the year 1959 to replay. …
Major League Baseball isn’t the only league going through an exciting postseason. Some APBA baseball leagues are going through a postseason of their own. Rod Caborn updates us on the postseason drama of Orlando APBA Association (OAPBA): Dave Larson’s Taz Devils (56-24), who had the league’s best record in…
After reading about the series between the 1930 Cubs and Dodgers that Brando and I did and seeing Babe Herman’s super human APBA card, Aaron Wilson emailed me and suggested that The APBA Blog write more about other monster APBA cards that are out there. I thought that was a…
Francis Rose over at 66Connection.com has some good videos of an Appreciation Dinner held in honor of long time employees of APBA Veryl Lincoln and Skeet Carr. Scott Lehotsky, who was responsible for the video “Of Dice and Men”, produced the video. Rose breaks up the video into three parts. …