APBA Card of the Week: 08 Carlos Zambrano

For any NL-rule APBA leagues out there, yum!  If you can avoid those five 24s on this card, he’s got quite a tasty card. 
It’s not a fluke either.  Zambrano won the NL Silver Slugger award for a reason.  He led all ML pitchers in pretty much every offensive stat in ‘08. 
And for [...]

APBA Card of the Week: Pujols’ 2008 card

Albert Pujols’ new 2008 card (based on the disk) 
 
All I can say is yippie! 
Yes, the double ones, yes, the 55-7, yes, the 44-0 but what I like are the decent numbers on the “automatic” numbers;  the 21-37, the 26-41 and the 46-22.  I will enjoy those immensely in the coming year. 
The [...]

APBA Card of the Week: 1989 Mitch Williams

 
1989 Mitch Williams, Chicago Cubs
This card is a doozy.  Indicative of his wild nature, this Mitch Williams hitting card is pretty much guaranteed of getting you three results; a strikeout, a double play, or if you’re lucky, maybe a homerun. 
It was 1989 and after three years in Texas, it was his first time [...]

APBA Card of the Week: 2006 Tom Glavine

By the 2000s, Tom Glavine lost his hit numbers he had in the early 90s not to mention his “Gretzky” nickname (bestowed because he was pretty good at hockey… good enough to be picked in the fourth round in the NHL draft).  But he did picked up a couple of other goodies, though.  As of [...]

APBA Card of the Week: 1953 Al Kaline

This week’s APBA Card of the Week is 1953 Al Kaline (reprint).  This was Kaline’s rookie year playing for the Detroit Tigers and even judging by his card you can tell it made from a small sample size.
Year Tm G AB R H [...]