On October 3-5 in Downers Grove, Illinois, the Illowa APBA League had their 2014 All-Star Game weekend. That included the IAL All-Star Game itself plus four regular season six-game series… not to mention a lot of fun.
We also had the pleasure of Scott Fennsessy’s presence on Saturday. Scott, who of course, writes for The APBA Blog as well being the Chicagoland Tournament champion last November. Scott made himself useful by rolling a few games for a couple teams and even rolled for a player in lieu of an absent manager during the All-Star Game.
First down to business… the Chicago team aka City Boys won the All-Star Game. 10-4. The bats were too much for the pitching of the Country Gents. Catcher Carlos Santana of the Chicago Highlanders won the Game MVP after hitting two homers. Highlander manager Rob Moore was hot with the dice. He also rolled a homer for Andrew McCutcheon early in the game.
The City Boys were high-fiving throughout the All-Star Game…
…while the Country Gents were searching for runs..
MVP Carlos Santana with his manager Rob Moore
How many cultural references can you spot in this photo of Don Smith?
I don’t have the numbers but I think Don had a pretty good weekend. He swept me 0-6.
Oh oh. Somebody questioned Todd’s knowledge of Pirates trivia.
Miggy Cabrera knocked in all nine rbis in a Northside Hitmen game.
Scott Fennessy manages my Thunderchickens against Dan Bunch and the Missoula Rattlesnakes. He won at least one game which was pretty good. We went 6-18 for the weekend.
More photos from the weekend here. As always, a great time was had, win or lose.
Thank you Tom for being kind in your write up. What he left out is that I almost had a rather embarrassing debut as I was no hit for the first 8.2 innings.
Overall I managed about 4 games for 2 teams. Does this make me a Free Agent?
Scott, what you left out in your comment was that you came back with a two-run homer to tie the game if I recall!
The Thunderchickens eventually lost in the 10th but an admirable effort nonetheless.