"I got more hits than Sadaharu Oh." … -Beastie Boys Shawn Baier thought that since his 76th birthday is coming up, Sadaharu Oh would be a good choice for Monster Monday. Shawn submits this custom 1974 Oh card. Look at all the 14s!! Oh hit 49 of his 868 career…
I remember back when I got the cards and started setting up the lineups I thought three things immediately. “wow, the Pirates are going to dominate ALL”, “what happened to the Phillies good players” and “man the Cardinals sure do stink” (I actually said something worse, but Tom runs a…
It’s been a while since we had a League Profile. Hugh Brown filled out the form and sent me the data on his league simply called APBAL. Hugh claims that APBAL is one of the oldest leagues in existence and I certainly can’t dispute that. APBAL was formed way back…
The completion of this season gives me a pretty good chunk of the first decade of “modern baseball” I now have 1901, 02, 03, and 05 in the books. Unlike my other dead ball replays this set was generated just a couple of years ago, so they had much more…
Pastor Rich Zawadzki can never pass up a chance to send on a good Monster card. Like this 1935 Joe “Ducky” Medwick card from the set published a couple years ago. It was Medwick’s fourth year in baseball and he had already established his presence with the St. Louis Cardinals. …
Pastor Rich Zawadzki can never pass up a chance to send on a good Monster card. Like this 1935 Joe “Ducky” Medwick card from the set published a couple years ago. It was Medwick’s fourth year in baseball and he had already established his presence with the St. Louis Cardinals. …
The Transcontinental Baseball League is one of the most well-documented APBA baseball leagues in existence. With a professional writer like Walter Hunt on the roster, it’s no surprise they put out such good press releases like the newly released 2016 TBL Annual. The 2016 TBL Annual is 146 pages long…
From Eddie Wilbanks comes Babe Ruth’s 1926 APBA card. Babe has been featured on Monday probably more than anyone (1916, 1920, 1921, 1924, 1927, 1930) but his ‘26 card is more than worthy. In 1926, Ruth got back on track after his reputed “Bellyache heard round the world”. His homers…
The most important statistic you can keep in your replay is the daily standings. Maintaining daily standings sound easy. It is surprising, however, how easily one can transpose a number or flip-flop a win or a loss. Once an error occurs, it will continue replicate itself in your daily standings…
Some APBA games just go your way. I was playing an Illowa APBA League series with my Pittsburgh pal Todd Ventresca and his Three Rivers Gamblers tonight. He won the first three and I won the next. What happened in the next game is one for the record books. It…