by Scott Fennessy New York, NY 7/12/1905 The Cubs face the Giants today in game two of this series. Both teams have players returning from the DL. Thirdbaseman Jim Casey for the Cubs returns after a 3 day stint with a minor ankle strain, while Giants catcher Mike Bowerman is…
Getting traded midseason in 1987 to the American League didn’t seem to help Sal Butera. It just meant he played a lot more. Butera batted a total of 9 times between 1983-1984. In the next two years, he never had more than 120 at-bats. I guess Cincinnati finally gave up…
Sammy Sosa has the somewhat dubious honor of having been chosen as a Terrible Card and a Monster Card. Back in January, I posted his 1991 card on my Tuesday column, justifiably so I think. Ten years later after Sosa made umm, certain changes to his training regimen, his stats…
by Scott Fennessy New York, NY 7/11/1905 The Cubs travel to New York, and begin a critical series against the Giants. This has become a heated rivalry, but the G-Men have become nearly unstoppable, and the Cubs have had a rash of injuries and suddenly their pitching has faltered. When…
This is not your father’s APBA Baseball replay. Indeed, the idea of doing a pre-1900 replay would never have been on my radar 20 years ago. But Rod Caborn (who The APBA Blog did a Fan Profile of a while back) is quite a ways into a 1883 National League…
Following up on my post which featured Geoff Schmitt’s APBA Golf tournament, here are the results of his second tournament. Geoff is using APBA Golf for Windows for these tournaments. According to him, the pace is lot faster with the Windows version than the dice and boards version. I’m not…
This certainly isn’t the worst APBA card in the world. in fact, for a .232 hitter, 1984 Darrell Evans has a pretty decent on-base percentage. But consider the context… In 1983 (the year before this card), Evans hit .277 with 30 homers with a nifty .516 slugging percentage. In 1985…
Lefty Grove deserves a mention in this column and there’s no time like the present. Grove’s stats are amazing enough but what makes them most unbelievable is that he accomplished them in the batters’ heyday of late 20s and early 30s. When teams were scoring well over 5 runs a…
Lesson learned… always keep a neat boxscore because you never know how important the game might be. I played a Skype series against Mike Bunch for our Illowa APBA League. My Twin City Thunderchickens weren’t hitting against Mike’s Green Rock Bombers for the whole series but I certainly wasn’t prepared…
Like clockwork, fellow IAL manager Don Smith sent out a wrap-up of how the early rookie picks are doing in the majors. It’s become a tradition in the IAL for Don to post the results of the first round players but this year, he’s doing the second round as well…