IAL team batting after one month Let’s talk about the exciting topic of stat normalization. Specifically about how it affects APBA leagues with a small number of teams. Take the example of my Illowa APBA League. We’re a basic game, continuous ownership league with just 10 teams. Each year,…
It’s the 28th of the month so that means it’s stat day for the Illowa APBA League. Since our APBA draft weekend was a bit early in February this year, the managers had a good month and a half to get the stats done for the first 30 games but…
Okay sure, Skip Lockwood has six power numbers but with a 51-13, he isn’t much of a Monster Card. As I always say, if I can’t tell if it’s a Monster Card or a Terrible Card, it probably belongs in the Weird Wednesday column. In 1978, Lockwood went 2 for…
Jim Fraasch, organizer of the Twin Cities APBA Baseball Tournament, sends an update on the third tournament in the series. The divisions are now set! Jim writes: Here is the latest update on TCABT-III, being held Saturday, April 4th, 2015. While 15 entrants is not the big number, as you…
Beau Lofgren furthers my theory that catchers are by far, the most popular candidate for Terrible Tuesday. He sends me 1989 Greg Myers of the Toronto Blue Jays. Myers spent a total of 18 years in the majors. That tells me that if a youngster is determined to get a…
Rodney Woodward passed on Matt Carson’s 2013 APBA baseball card on to me. I remember Carson’s numbers well. He led all APBA baseball cards in 2013 for the most hit numbers on one card (with 15) as well as having the most on-base numbers on one card (18). Obviously, he…
If you have already, you can download the corrected cards for the 2014 APBA Baseball set. You download them from the APBA Company website. There are six players affected: David Hale Christopher Valaika Homer Bailey Bartolo Colon Jason Frasor Jerry Sands Some are minor corrections. I’m still trying to figure…
This 1950 Richie Ashburn card was posted by Tom Allshouse to the APBA Baseball group on Facebook. Thanks to Ken Schulz for bringing it to my attention. It’s a fun one. It starts out ok but once you get to 55 and you see the 7, you wonder “wait a…
I guess it’s appropriate that most of these Terrible Tuesday cards come at the beginning or at the end of player’s careers. That’s the case with this 1978 Tony Muser card. It’s at the tail end of his nine year career when he finished up with the Brewers. In 1978,…
Pastor Rich brings us this Monster Willie Mays card of 1965. 1965 was about midway through Willie Mays’ career/ In terms of his offensive value though, Mays’ first part of his career was definitely his salad days. He hit 481 of his 660 homers before the 1966 season. In 1965,…