We’ve seen a few of the 2020 cards in the past few weeks. Now, it’s time go back a few decades. Ted Williams has had his share of Monster Card articles. You read about Ted Williams’ 1941, 1948, 1953 (the very first Monster Card ever!), 1955, and 1957 (the 1986…
I’ll do one more 2020 for Monster Monday before we turn back to our regularly scheduled programming. This card was alluded to in a Facebook comment to last week’s Monster Card Monday column which featured DJ LeMahieu. This week, it’s 2020 Freddie Freeman. In the Illowa APBA League, he is…
Our league, the Illowa APBA League, is in its last month of the 2020 season. After a month off, we will be drafting for our 2021 season based on 2020 MLB season. The IAL is a 10-team continuous ownership league which plays 162 games each year. This year will be…
If you have waited for the actual card set to become available to order the 2020 baseball season, the time is now! According to John Herson, you can now place an order. To do so, you can visit the APBA Game Company shop here. Interested in seeing who is getting…
Prolific APBA documentarian Rod Caborn sent me an update on the Orlando APBA Association (OAPBA). Congratulations are due to Jonathan Stilwell. His Otters won the 2020 OAPBA World Series over Craig Dolan’s Tsunamis This isn’t Jonathan’s first rodeo. He has won three World Series rings with OAPBA since he joined…
Happy New Year everyone!! What does a batting champ’s APBA card look like? Kinda like this. DJ LeMahieu sports a Carew-esque card in the 2020 season. Now excuse me a sec while I add “LeMahieu” to my spell checking dictionary. Ok, good. LeMahieu won the batting title with the Yankees…
Is it any coincidence that APBA cards have Christmas colors red and green on them? Here’s wishing every APBA fan out there a very happy holiday season this year! Please be safe and take some time to rest up for a much happier 2021 year! thanks to everyone out there!…
Nothing like starting the week off with a brand new MVP. This card belongs to Jose Abreu of the White Sox who took the AL MVP this year. Righty Abreu hit 19 homers with 60 rbis this year (it’s going to take a while to get used to translating to…
As noted previously, Gordon Titchener came up on top on this year’s Pitching Grade Challenge with a perfect 20 out of 20. I’m still wondering how he did it. How about the rest of us? Well, results were kind of all over the place. On the one hand, 47 of…
2020 has been something else but Gordon Titchener’s year improved just a little bit. He has just won the 2020 APBA Blog Pitching Grade Challenge. Not only that, but he also guessed EVERY pitcher correctly. 100%!! None of the other 140 participants guessed all twenty pitchers correctly and this is…