Neil Leininger of the Lame Duck Baseball Association sends us the first round results of their 35th rookie draft which took place on March 7th. 1. Abreu 2. Boegarts 3. Soler 4. Springer 5. D. Santana 6. Betts 7. Ventura 8. deGrom 9. Betances 10. McHugh 11. R. Castillo 12.…
I’ve been seeing some posts on social media about Rich Zawadski’s Greater Michigan Baseball Tournament roll by. It seems like Rich has really pulled off a fun event! I really am sorry I didn’t go. Next time, Rich! While I’m waiting for the full report from the tournament, I’ve been…
Bob Gordon continues with his 1979 postseason replay. Back to the NLCS with Game 2. -Tom Game 2 of the Senior Circuit series in Houston. The Astros trying to bounce back from being shutout by Blyleven whilst being limited to just 2 hits. Joe Niekro (20-12, 2.77) takes on Cy…
Joe Liss posted this 1973 Don McMahon card on Facebook recently. Now, it’s definitely a Monster card with a total of eighteen hit numbers based on his 1 for 1 performance for the San Francisco Giants. To me, it’s also a little strange since the card has four nines. Almost…
Congratulations to Joe Auletta! His Brobdingnag Barbarians took the Transcontinental Baseball League championship two weekends ago. It took some doing though. His Barbarians had to defeat the Midwest Mongrels in Game 7 in a 12 inning battle. Below is Joe’s write up of Game Seven forwarded to me by Stephen…
After the recent Illowa APBA League draft weekend, Chuck took me to his place while I waited for the train to downtown Chicago. We did what most APBA guys would do with 15 minutes to kill… we looked at APBA cards. While doing so, I ran across this 1972 Bobby…
I forgot who sent this sent in… Doug S? Regardless, it’s a Monster as long as you don’t mind a butcher in the field. Frank “Big Hurt” Thomas was given that 1B-2 for a reason. But Frank Thomas could produce. There’s no question about that. This card is from the…
Bob Gordon continues his summary of his 1979 postseason replay -Tom Game 1 of the ALCS is in Minnesota. Pre-season favorite California struggled to a fourth place finish – they lacked pitching past Frost and Ryan. The Twins, meanwhile, found plenty of pitching. Number 4 starter Paul Hartzell finished 22-8! …
There were a couple APBA baseball league drafts that went on last weekend. I already hit on the Illowa APBA League weekend as well as the draft that I took part in. There were a couple others too. The Mid-West Baseball League had their draft on Saturday. Stray Corrado does…
Doug Schuyler is excited about the next Chicagoland tourney Yes, the next Chicagoland APBA World Series Tournament is in the planning stages. Started in the summer of 2013, this will be the fifth one in the series. Tournament organizers Jim Saska and Doug Schuyler are already planning a new one…