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. …
As the dog days of August arrive the Red Sox continue to lead the AL with the Indians striving to stay in range. However other teams have come into play as the inevitable shakeup due to underperforming teams has begun to level out. Pitching continues to be solid as there…
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. …
Bob Gordon’s 1979 World Series replay goes into Game Four –TN Flanagan (Grade BYZ) and Blyleven (Grade BY) go at each other again today in Pittsburgh. They both gave up 3 runs in Game 1, but were gone by the time in the O’s won in the 10th– their only…
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…
Bob Gordon is in Game 3 of his riveting 1979 World Series replay. -TN Ok, Game 3 was supposed to be in Pittsburgh. I filled out the scoresheet (courtesy of Paul Dylan’s One for Five blog) with the O’s as the visitor and Pirates as home team in the scoring…
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…