No doubt, Andruw Jones had seen better days. Somehow Atlanta had looked into the crystal ball and didn’t re-sign him in 2007 after he hit 26 homers and drove in 94 runs. Well, the Dodgers snapped him up thinking he could revive his .222 batting average and get the superstar…
Okay, it’s 11:30pm and I have 30 minutes to do a Monster Card article. Ready, Go!! Fortunately, it’s Robert Mosher (who shared a birthday with me on Sunday) to the rescue. He posted this 1961 Norm Cash card on Facebook. I had been doing a BBW replay of the 1961…
Scott Fennessy just emailed me this picture… I think it’s awesome. I just need to find a way to make it a reality for my Illowa APBA League team, the Twin City Thunderchickens.
Tom Goodell from Facebook’s APBA Baseball group has a quandary. Do you go with it? Or move the numbers to what you know is right? I’ll be honest. It took me a couple minutes without a hint to realize what was wrong with this 1939 Charlie Gehringer card. It wasn’t…
A couple weeks ago you all helped Mike Bunch in selecting the MVP and Cy Young award winners for his 1963 replay. Here are the NL leaderboards and here are the AL leaderboards for the replay. I’m still waiting to hear back from Mike on who actually received the hardware. …
Rod Woodward sends in this nasty 2013 Miguel Cabrera card. I always hesitate to give Miggy his due. That’s probably because I wasn’t smart enough to draft him. In 13 years, he’s already hit close to 400 homers and driven in almost 1400 runs. I can’t argue with those numbers. …
Scott Fennessy sends in this rather odd 1903 card of Hall of Famer Charles “Chief” Bender. Start with the fact that Bender’s rookie pitcher card was always rated as a 1B-2 and an OF-1. He played three games at first and one in the outfield. He also has a 15-10…
When Pastor Rich suggested this 1957 Ted Williams card for this Monday’s column, I did a search to make sure I hadn’t featured it before. Nope. Not yet. I’ve done quite a few but not this one. Here is his 1955 card and there was the 1941 card, of course. …
With the new MLB season upon us, I started getting my daily emails from Kilg.us. I’ve written about Kilg.us before but in a nutshell, it’s a web-based baseball player tracker. It gives you a chance to group MLB players together in logical group and follow their stats on a daily…
The positive thing about pitting two last place teams against each other is that when they split a series, winning percentages go up across the board. At least that’s how I’m choosing to look at my Thunderchickens opening series against Keith Smith and his Kentucky Kernels for the Illowa APBA…