This feature isn’t incredibly new on Baseball Reference but I’ve been using it so much in my 1966 replay I thought I’d pass it on in case anyone else isn’t aware of it. You may find it useful if you are a replayer especially if you stick to actual lineups. …
One of the benefits of being connected on Facebook’s APBA Baseball group is that you get to meet APBA players that you wouldn’t otherwise. Last week, during a Facebook thread about Rod Carew’s 1977 APBA card, I got talking to Scott Veatch who lives in Wyoming and has played APBA…
As I noted last week, I finally reached the end of April in my 1966 NL APBA baseball replay. Relatively speaking, it’s been slow going but I consider this a nice milestone. Here’s a quick rundown of the parameters of my replay: I’m using APBA Basic Baseball (new booklet) no…
by Scott Fennessy Chicago, IL 8/7/1905 The Cubs/Giants war continues today as Ed Reulbach faces George Wiltse in what should be one of the biggest mismatches of the year as the Cubs A&C faces a B. That said, never trust a man whose nickname is “Snake”. He has been having…
Reader Ken Castro just got an 1973 baseball season and ran across this Cleo James card. He thought it would be a perfect fit for the Terrible Tuesday Column. Indeed, I’ve done this feature for a while now and this is one of the strangest cards I’ve seen. But first,…
Before I get started, I’d like to recognize reader Aaron Wilson. Some of you may have seen last week’s 2-year anniversary Monster Card Monday featuring Ted Williams. Aaron saw the article and emailed and reminded me how he is partly responsible for the feature’s creation. He’s right. Two years ago,…
The Chicagoland APBA World Series Tournament is two weeks away! Thanks to the hard work of organizers Doug Schuyler and Jim Saska, the list of attendees is growing and the bounty of prizes is becoming more lucrative. Doug told me today that as of today, 20 people have committed to…
This was the game in 2004 that the Northside Hitmen’s Barry Bonds hit his 600th homer in the Illowa APBA League. This was pretty much at the pinnacle of Chuck Lucas’ Hitmen dynasty. With players like Bonds, Alex Rodriguez, Manny Ramirez, Roberto Alomar, and Carlos Delgado, the opponents’ were shaking…
Tim McCarver provides color commentary in one dimension while at the same time he goes 2 for 4 with a triple and double in another. Pretty meta. Last night, I visited my friend, John “Brando” Brandeberry to play some APBA while we watched the World Series. We played enough of…
I’ll admit the first thing I noticed when I saw this 1965 Gary Kolb card is that he was just “down the road a ways” from where I grew up. Rock Falls’ high school was in the same conference as my high school. Not only that, Kolb was a fellow…