There are wild, crazy and MONSTER card in the new 2017 APBA Baseball set. Dave Rueck shared Giancarlo Stanton’s card and boy, that fits the bill. Used to be, three 1s was reserved for folks like Ruth (not to take away from Stanton at all). Well, Stanton had a Ruthian…
Have you ever gotten into a conversation with someone outside the context of APBA and found out that they play the game? That happened to me yesterday. It was time for me to get a haircut so I went to the barbershop in the University of Illinois campustown. It’s a…
Craig Mobley posted this Fred Lynn card of 1975 recently on the APBA Baseball group on Facebook. I looked back in the archives and while I have featured Lynn’s 1979 card, I never got around to his signature 1975 APBA card. Lynn had a fantastic season in his rookie year…
You know the drill. OAPBA, the Orlando-based APBA league has one of the best, scratch that, THE BEST annual yearbook of any APBA league in existence. You can view it in its entirety here in pdf form. It may take a while. It is a whopping 36 pages long. Of…
As of January 9, APBA released two updates for APBA Baseball 5.75 aka BBW. The first one attends to general housekeeping. You can read the details here. Much of it is dull but important error checking. Other issues fixed are sorting problems, print formatting and very minor duplicate stat issues.…
It is a special time of year for APBA fans. Orders for the 2017 Baseball card set can now be placed! From the News from APBA Games email newsletter: We will place the 2017 Baseball card products in the store on Thursday January 11th at 5pm. You can begin placing…
Yesterday, I posted about Knoxville attorney Sarah Johnson who contacted me regarding me an estate sale which had a lot of APBA sets, cards and from I can tell from the photos, Master Game symbols and the game itself. The catch, you will have to travel to Knoxville to close…
Like Doug Bair of the same year, 1981 Bob Sykes is pretty duo lateral. He has two result numbers. Unlike Bair, one of those is not a 1. In fact, Sykes has a 66-14. Sykes’ card is full of 13s and 14s. Specifically, he has twenty 13s and eleven 14s…
So, I was contacted by a lawyer yesterday. No it isn’t like that. Attorney Sarah Johnson of Holifield and Associates is the executor of an estate in Knoxville, Tennessee which includes a large cache of APBA cards. Perhaps some of you know the person who passed on. Regardless, I would…
This is a little off the beaten path for a Monster Monday card but Maury Wills’ 1962 card certainly fits. Thanks to Jeffrey Crafts who brought it to my attention. It was in 1962 when Maury Wills hit the century mark in steals for the Dodgers with 104. It took…