Here’s a little Christmas gift for all of you…Rickey Henderson. Not only was he the greatest leadoff hitter in MLB history, he was also the greatest player born on Christmas Day. I hope everyone in the APBA community has a wonderful Christmas with their families and friends. Be sure to…
I want to take the time to reflect on 2018, wish everyone a happy holiday season and look forward to a fantastic 2019! The past year was full of countless regional tournaments. Probably more than I have seen previous. That is great to see. The good news is that there…
When Harold Baines was recently elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame, I saw several comments that the bar for the Hall is being lowered. Well, though I love the Hall of Fame with all its flaws, I must say it was lowered decades ago. The year 1954 was one…
I saw a question online recently inquiring about APBA mail leagues and how exactly they work. It’s a fair question because not every league is a mail league and those that are, do it in their own special way. With evolving communications technology today, the line between face-to-face (FTF) leagues…
Christian Yelich became the NL Most Valuable Player in 2018 with the Milwaukee Brewers. My friend Rob Moore drafted him for his Chicago Highlanders in our Illowa APBA League the year after he was a rookie. And not to take anything away from Yelich but each year, he seemed solid…
My first memories of Joe Garagiola are from NBC’s Saturday Game of the Week in the 1980s. At the time, Garagiola frequently teamed with Bob Costas, but on certain occasions, he’d be paired with Vin Scully. I recall Joe and Vin calling the 1983 All-Star Game from Comiskey Park when…
It’s been a few year’s so the Illowa APBA League’s website was in a state of disrepair. Last week, I took some time to spruce it up, add some new content and upgrade it with some bells and whistles. Take a look at illowaapbaleague.com now. The IAL has been around…
Today, it was announced that Lee Smith will be inducted into the Hall of Fame in 2019 along with Harold Baines. He was a unanimous vote by the veterans’ committee now dubbed “Today’s Game Era” committee. I know some inductions by the veterans’ committee are a bit controversial. If you…
Adrian Beltre reminds me that baseball is like Shakespeare’s Seven Ages of Man, and it has a subtle way of making you feel the passage of time. When you first discover the game, you’re a child and the players seem like stars dropped from the heavens. As you reach school…
The awesome Kevin Burghardt sent me a summary of his current project involving the OFAS 3 set. -Tom The OFAS 3 set When APBA’s OFAS3 set arrived at my doorstep, I initially thought I’d enjoy flipping through the cards, then set them aside to play with at some point down…