He was known as ”Canada’s Babe Ruth” and the ”Woodstock Wonder.” Every year since 1984, the Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame gives out an award to a Canadian player “judged to have excelled in individual achievement and team contribution while adhering to the highest ideals of the game of baseball.”…
Willie Mays was the greatest center fielder ever. The statistics, even the new-fangled advanced ones, back this up. Willie Mays was the ultimate five-tool player. He consistently hit with power and for a good average. He had an excellent throwing arm and could track down fly balls as well as…
This weekend is the Illowa APBA League’s All-Star Game. A 10-team basic league, the IAL has been in existence since 1975. Each year, we all get together to play our best players. This year’s event will take place in Downers Grove, Illinois. It’s the Country Gents vs. City Boys. The…
A-Rod. What’s there to say? Oh, so much. You should have been a no-brainer, first-ballot Hall of Famer…but then you had to go and cheat. What will become of your legacy? Only time will tell. If you just look at Alex Rodriguez’s statistics and accomplishments, you’ll find yourself in baseball…
This would be probably one of the strangest Monday submissions. it’s 1945 Kelly Callaghan, mother of Casey Candaele. She is the player they based the movie League of their own on. However, there were obviously a fair amount of historical inaccuracies and changes for the movie. She didn’t play for…
If I spoke in Rickey Henderson’s style, I might say, Kevin Weber’s favorite player growing up was Rickey Henderson. Kevin first liked Reggie Jackson but then Kevin liked Rickey best. When Henderson came on the scene in the early 1980s, I was drawn to his style and charisma. I started…
Scott Fennessy had an idea for a Monster Card Monday column… I have been getting back into an APBA loving mode and have neared the end of the 1961 season. While Maris and Mantle get all the attention in the articles I see, I don’t know that anyone has submitted…
Using the Errors Chart, tabulating errors is simple. After you tally up your batting stats, simply record errors, by individual on the Errors Chart. It only takes about 10 seconds and the information adds another dimension to your replay. You can simply record total errors or, if you want to…
The team selection process for the 10th Twin City APBA Baseball Tournament is over and the rolling is almost ready to begin. Jim Fraasch reports there are 30 teams participating. Wow, that’s a lot of Minnesota APBA fans! I gotta be rooting for the lone Illinois participant, Eric Berg. Go…
It seems that 2018 is the season that MLB is testing APBA. I’ve already written about Shohei Ohtani and the challenges his dual role poses for the APBA Game Company in assigning him a position rating. He’s not the only strange situation from this year though. Fellow IAL manager Rob…