The Transcontinental Baseball League held their annual draft on February 21. In 2021, it was Luis Robert who was chosen with the first pick. This isn’t a big surprise. Robert also went numero uno in the Roberto Clemente Memorial Baseball Association’s draft earlier this season. The lucky owner of Robert…
Rodney Woodward sends in a perfect card for Monster Card Monday. Literally. It’s Devin Williams’ card from 2020. For the Brewers, Williams allowed one run in 27 innings. He walked nine and struck out 53 batters. Interestingly, that one run in the second game of the shortened season led to…
Who doesn’t like a 40-40 season? I’m going to test that this week. This week, I am featuring Barry Bonds’ card from 1996. This should elicit some comments, I’m sure. There’s no doubt this is a great card though. Of Bonds’ 159 hits in 1996, 42 were homers. He drove…
Pastor Rich Zawadzki is a frequent submitter of Monster Cards for this column and today is no exception. He came through for me today with this original 1997 Larry Walker card. Walker was a five tool player who could hit for average, power and could contribute with speed and his…
I received an email from Russ who asked about which boards are best to use when playing with older APBA baseball cards. I have seen this topic broached elsewhere so I this it’s worth bringing up. Russ asks: In playing a season with cards before created before 1995, should I…
Now that IAL is in its short offseason, I have been participating in an online tournament in these cold months. For those who have participated in weekend tournaments in past years, it’s a lot like that. There are some parameters set and maybe an overall theme tying it all together. …
Now that we are starting to get the cards for the 2020 baseball season, APBA leagues are gearing up for the 2021 season. John Briggs, the commissioner of the Roberto Clemente Memorial Baseball Association emailed me this week and had some news. We held our draft January 30th. Usually we…
Just when you think we’ve seen all the great Babe Ruth cards, I ran across this 1917 Ruth card. This is not like most Ruth cards however. This is purely a pitcher’s card. Aside from eleven pinch hit appearances, the Babe was tasked to hurl from the mound for the…
The 2020 Illowa APBA League has now concluded. Yesterday, Commissioner Mike Bunch and I finished up our nine game series. Our series was hardly pivotal. Mike and I went into the series occupying the last two spots in the IAL standings. In fact, there was little chance that the results…
Sadly, we lost Hank Aaron last week. He broke the all-time record when I was ten years old and to me, he was always be the home run king. The card you see here is for Aaron’s 1957 season. I featured his Great Teams of the Past (GTOP) version of…