On the heels of the Chicagoland APBA Tournament, there are plenty of other 2024 tourneys prepping for action. Some of the organizers were even in attendance at Chicagoland and were given a chance to make announcements about their upcoming events. Here are a few tournaments within the next year… RollAPBAlooza…
Saturday was quite a day! Fifty APBA fans from all over the Midwest region congregated at the Am-Vets Post in Wheeling, Illinois to see who would come out ahead. It’s hard to believe that the first Chicagoland tourney was just a few guys getting together and playing some APBA. Now,…
First, thanks to Clinton Revere who tuned me in to this Willie Mays APBA card. It’s definitely one I have never seen before. This is what Clinton posted on Facebook: In the first game involving the Giants legends who passed recently, the dice paid homage. Willie Mays tied the game…
Artificial Intelligence or AI has been making a lot of news lately. Chances are, you are affected by some form of it, maybe without even knowing it. A lot of our sports games recaps are generated by AI. Even the game recaps I read after coming home from Illini baseball…
I’ve done a few Hank Greenberg cards. Like this limited 1936 one a long time ago. Or this 1934 card. And even this 1935 monster card. Funny though, I don’t recall featuring the card representing his real monster season.
This Friday, the Illowa APBA League continues its 50th season by converging on the Chicago-area for its annual June weekend. We’ll roll dem bones and get some APBA played.
On Tuesday, New York and San Francisco Giant center fielder Willie Mays passed away at the age of 93.
Reader Don George, who is a fan of one-team season replays, has completed the 1979 Cincinatti Reds replay. Don says it took 58 days to finish and once he did, he sent me a synopsis. First, here is a quick recap in Don’s words: The 1979 Cincinnati Reds slightly outperformed their actuals during…
Clint Hartung was billed to be the “biggest thing to hit New York baseball since Babe Ruth”. He could pitch and hit homeruns.
Rich Zawadzki suggested this truly monster card. These days when a few pitchers struggle to reach 200 innings in a season (five did in 2023), what Charles Radbourn did in 1883 seems impossible. Yet, the stats bear it out. And indeed make this a monster card.