In our mind’s eye, the enduring image of Tom Seaver is one of the hard-throwing right hander in the uniform of the New York Mets, for whom Seaver won 198 games during his career. While fans vividly remember Seaver’s glory days with the Mets, particularly his wonderful 1969 season…
According to the APBA Newsletter, a total of 65 APBA fans attended the 2018 National APBA Convention in Alpharetta, Georgia on June 21-24. A LOT of congratulations are in order. Tourney winners First, it seems like the Wells Dynasty is alive kicking. Greg Wells won the APBA Baseball tourney with…
Another feature of the Fielding Range Chart is speeding up the identification of catcher’s wild throws on safe steals. Rather than flip through the pages to see if a catcher’s throw found its way into center field, use this feature on the chart to see if there even is a…
I almost didn’t make to the Illowa APBA League weekend last Friday. Between transportation issues and an anniversary on Sunday (our 29th!), it just didn’t seem like it was going to happen. But thanks to Rob Moore, I was able to ride along with him and Scott Fennessy from Chicago…
I was privileged to see Hank Greenberg’s final appearance at Tiger Stadium in Detroit. It was June 12, 1983 and the Tigers were retiring Hank Greenberg’s number 5 jersey and Charlie Gerhringer’s number 2 jersey. The ceremony was held at midfield between games of a doubleheader between the Tigers and…
It’s summer time and with a little more free time, I’m rolling dice for my 1966 NL replay again. It’s feeling good getting back into the groove. As I start up again, I noticed that I’m at the June 18th mark in my replay which was just a few days…
Courtesy of Howie Mooney, this may be Cal Ripken’s first Monster Monday selection. It’s 1991 Ripken card which was Iron Man Cal Ripken of course was of course most well known for his consecutive games played streak of 2.632 games. Ripken streak finally ended in September of 1998 over 500…
Unless you’re a big Detroit Tigers fan, you might not know that there were two future Baseball Hall of Fame members on the 1968 World Series Championship team. Obviously, Al Kaline is one. The other was Eddie Mathews. Since it’s finally summer break, I’ve got some time to continue…
Earlier this year, I wrote about an attorney named Sarah Johnson who was representing the estate of a deceased individual that included an large collection of APBA cards. I posted some photos provided by Ms. Johnson and even more photos in a follow-up article. After five months, Ms. Johnson’s firm…
Major League Baseball Advanced Media could take a few lessons from the Transcontinental Baseball League. Each year, the TBL comes out with an incredibly huge and fun to read league annual. This year, it is titled The TBL Baseball Annual: The New Normal. You can read the 2018 edition of…