Final Card Friday: 1983 Carl Yastrzemski

    For me, baseball cards and APBA are connected. When I first became interested in baseball, Topps lost its monopoly on manufacturing baseball cards. In 1980, Fleer and Donruss were given permission from Major League Baseball to produce their first sets. During the two years I lived in Fern…

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Joe Auletta’s Brobdingnag Barbarians win TBL title!

On the same weekend as the Illowa APBA League postseason and draft, the Transcontinental Baseball League World Series was taking place.  Let’s give some congrats to Brobdingnag Barbarians manager, Joe Auletta, the new reigning TBL champion! He defeated Mark Bloom’s Grand Cayman Havens in a seven game series. Barbarian Sean…

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Final Card Friday: 1939 Moe Berg

Good morning APBA Fan. Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to discover the most interesting baseball player in history. As always, should you or any of your team be caught or killed, the Secretary will disavow any knowledge of your actions. This post will self-destruct when you finish reading it. If Ethan…

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