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Author: Thomas Nelshoppen

I am an IT consultant by day and an APBA media mogul by night. My passions are baseball (specifically Illini baseball), photography and of course, APBA. I have been fortunate to be part of the basic game Illowa APBA League since 1980 as well as a frequent participant of the Chicagoland APBA Tournament. I am slogging through a 1966 NL replay and hope to finish before I die.

Monster Card Monday: 2014 Troy Tulowitzki

Shawn Baier from the excellent website The Boys of Summer suggests today’s Monster Monday card. It is the 2004 Troy Tulowitzki card when played for the Colorado Rockies. Shawn says: It’s seems crazy to me that Tulowitzki has already retired, but I was browsing through my cards, and found this…

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Thomas Nelshoppen January 13, 2020 January 13, 2020Card Analysis card analysis, Monster Card Monday, troy tulowitzki 0

APBA now taking orders for 2019 Baseball cards!

If you have been waiting to order the 2019 APBA Baseball cards, you can now do it. As you can see by my league’s group text, they have already been receiving orders. Please note, the APBA Company is only accepting orders via the online store or by mail. No orders…

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Thomas Nelshoppen January 9, 2020 January 9, 2020Company Announcements 2019, announcements 0

TAB Mailbag: Help with Master Game Baseball rule

Calling all Master Game fans! I’m going to need your help on this. The following question comes to us via Brandon M. I haven’t played Master Game in a few years so I’ll need help from those die-hard MG fans out there… Brandon asks: I am hoping that you can…

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Thomas Nelshoppen January 8, 2020 January 8, 2020APBA Rules APBA Blog mailbag, master game, rules 5

Monster Card Monday: 1935 Arky Vaughan

I’m going to take a break from 2019 this week and go old-school today. This is an idea I’m taking from Rich Selg along with his great photo. Many cast a dubious eye on Veterans Committee HOFers. I don’t have a problem with Pittsburgh shortstop Arky Vaughan though. He was…

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Thomas Nelshoppen January 6, 2020 January 6, 2020Card Analysis arky vaughan 1

Questions answered about the APBA Blog

In the spirit of the new year, I thought I would write up a quick summary of what the APBA Blog is all about for anyone who joined us in the past year.  What is the APBA Blog? The APBA Blog is a website that is geared towards the fans…

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Thomas Nelshoppen January 4, 2020 January 4, 2020Blog Administration blog admin, faq 2

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In a Christmas Eve matchup, my Twin City Thunderchickens faced off in a nine-game series against Don Smith’s Molly Putts Marauders. This had heavy Illowa APBA League playoff implications for the Chickens as we are battling for fourth place and the last playoff spot. This was also my last series…

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Thomas Nelshoppen January 1, 2020 January 1, 2020League Updates don smith, ial, league 0

Monster Card Monday: 2019 Aristides Aquino

For the past three Mondays, I’ve featured 2019 cards from the new APBA GO set. So far, we’ve seen Christian Yelich, Cody Bellinger and Mike Trout. I’m going to do one more today and maybe go back to some traditional ones in the new year. Today’s card is not exactly…

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Thomas Nelshoppen December 30, 2019 December 30, 2019Card Analysis Aristides Aquino, card analysis, Monster Card Monday 0

Don George’s 1969 Orioles replay review

I always like to see how APBA replayers track their projects. In addition, it’s a skill to display the results in a viewable format. APBA Blog readers have already seen the works of Rod Caborn when he submits his masterpieces. Before the holidays, Don George contacted me about his single…

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Thomas Nelshoppen December 27, 2019 December 27, 2019replay 1969, replay 3

Happy Holidays to all APBA fans!

I want to wish the entire APBA community a happy and safe holidays. You guys are are all awesome and I appreciate you. By the way, this figurine is called “Baseball Santa” by my family. I don’t know where we got it. He knows nothing about 3-batter minimum rules, TV…

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Thomas Nelshoppen December 23, 2019 December 23, 2019Fun announcements 2

Monster Card Monday: 2019 Mike Trout

When I claimed last week that Christian Yelich and Cody Bellinger had the two best APBA GO cards among full timers in the 2019 set, my old time friend Dom Provisiero had an opinion on that. He asked me to take a look at Mike Trout’s card. You know what?…

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Thomas Nelshoppen December 23, 2019 December 22, 2019Card Analysis card analysis, mike trout, Monster Card Monday 2
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