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…
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…