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…
Never have I seen an APBA card go from “Monster to Mendoza” like this 1992 Nelson Santovenia card (published in 2017). Beau Lofgren who suggested it, certainly thought so. This Sox catcher Santovenia card is the epitome of “all-or-nothing”. For the year, he went 1 for 3 and he (you…
What better way to start the New Year than an APBA card of Hank Greenberg? Not only was he born on January 1 but his birth date is 1-1-11! This is Detroit Tiger firstbaseman Greenberg’s 1936 card. It’s not his best year by a longshot despite the look of his…
With the new year coming upon us, I decided to update the tournament calendar. Wow, we have a lot of regional action going on. A total of eight tournaments are currently scheduled plus the National APBA Convention and Tournament in June. Established tourneys are going strong. I was particularly impressed…