by Scott Fennessy 8/26/1905 Philadelphia, PA The Cubs face the Phillies in a double header today as they continue to pressure the Giants who face the Reds in a twin bill in the big apple as well. The Giants win game one 5-1 as Mike Donlin racks up 3 more…
Scott Veatch came through with this very interesting Ken Suarez card from the original 1966 set. Rookie catcher Suarez played for the Kansas City Athletics and actually started 26 games for them. Batting .145, his only extra base hit was a triple. He did walk fifteen times so his OBP…
by Scott Fennessy 8/24/1905 Philadelphia, PA The Cubs continue their east coast trip and come to Philadelphia to face the struggling Phillies. It is hard to believe about 3 weeks ago they were beginning to turn things around and trying to make a move on the Pirates for third place,…
Wow, it was really time for Maury Wills to retire. Scott Veatch passed on this 1972 Maury Wills card to me. It was Wills’ last year in the majors and at age 39, all offensive skills had been used up apparently. In 71 games and 30 starts, he went 17…
…especially this one Recently, I wrote about my 8-1 series victory over the Bamm Beanos to put myself in a good position to make the playoffs (in our league the top four teams go on to the postseason). I’ve been keeping a close eye on Todd Ventresca’s Three Rivers Gamblers…
I was going through my repository of Monster Cards (still thinking of doing my Monsters vs. Terribles series) and ran across this 1911 Joe Jackson card that Pastor Rich Zawadzki suggested. Deadball or no, it’s a monster card! Playing for the Cleveland Naps, Shoeless Joe hit .408 in 1911 which…
by Scott Fennessy 8/23/1905 Brooklyn, NY The Cubs face the Dodgers in the series finale today and are going for the four game sweep. Today’s action features Mordecai Brown (right) against William Scanlan in a rematch of the first game in which was a closely fought battle. In his pre-game…
As some of you know, the baseball data disk doesn’t allow for extrapolation for the pitcher ratings of R, K and ZZ as well as the steal asterisks on batting cards. With the arrival of the new set, we now know who has these ratings. Reader John Briggs who just…
by Scott Fennessy 8/22/1905 Brooklyn, NY GAME ONE The Cubs face the Dodgers in a double header today. I am still amazed at their fortune of late. Pitching is really rounding out, and although Frank Chance is the only player really doing well, he is getting just enough help to…
John Williams brought me back to my school days when he sent me photos of this APBA Baseball World Series Game booklet. John saw my previous Flashback Friday post that featured the brochure for the World Series Game set which included the league champions for six different seasons and thought…