Happy Holidays from The APBA Blog!
This will probably be my last post until after the Christmas holiday. I actually have a Monster Card Monday article that is queued up and will post automatically on Christmas Eve (we’ll see if that works). In the spirit of Christmas, I won’t be a Scrooge and post a Terrible…
2012 Baseball Disk by the numbers: This, that and the other
Just a few more calculations I did. This will probably be the last of my ‘By the numbers’ series. Here are the rest: Pitching Defense Offense Fastest players according to Master Game speed ratings… Player Speed Emilio Bonifacio 20 Pedro Ciriaco 19 Rajai Davis 19 Tony Campana 19 Eric Young…
2012 Disk by the numbers: Offense
2012 Baseball Disk by the Numbers: Defense
2012 Baseball Disk by the Numbers: Pitching
Terrible Card Tuesday: 1901 Bill Bergen
League Profile: Odon APBA League
When I read Jim’s email about the Odon APBA League, I was pleasantly surprised to see that they were based only a few hours away from me. From Odon, Indiana, Jim says he’s a Purdue grad so I immediately had a Big Ten bond with him (Go Illini!). Anyway, the…
League Talk: The stove is getting hot
With the APBA-Between the Lines disk chats going on, I’ve been looking forward to next year’s season more and more. Indeed, my Thunderchickens look to improve in the pitching department with four Bs and two Cs in the rotation and two Bs in the pen (assuming Chris Perez is one,…
Monster Card Monday: 1905 Cy Seymour
Our resident deadball expert Scott Fennessy who writes Scott’s Olde Tyme Baseball Update column, suggested this card. It’s Cincinnati outfielder Cy Seymour of 1905. Seymour’s career is somewhat interesting. For his 16-year career he was a decent offensive threat who hit .303. For six years straight, he hit .300…