I’ve changed the way that my name appears on The APBA Blog. It will no longer show up as The Baseball Zealot. Instead you’ll see my full name, Thomas Nelshoppen. I’m letting everyone know just so you know it’s the same person. The nom de plume “The Baseball Zealot” came…
There was a thread on our league’s internal mailing list that got me thinking about this. Something about Miguel Cabrera’s current glovework at third base during spring training. That got us on who in the history of APBA has gotten the dreaded 3B-2 rating. Our list is incomplete. Hell, it…
Chalk up another one for my buddy, Chuck. He pointed me to a 1966 Baseball Digest article about Koufax and Marichal I might be interested in because of my replay. But that not the coolest part. Turns out that the Baseball Digests are all online for our perusal. So for…
This week’s Monster Card is the “Man of Steal” himself, Rickey Henderson. Dom Provisiero should appreciate this choice. 1990 is not the year Rickey Henderson broke the all-time steals record (you could probably tell that from the APBA card). But one could make an argument that 1990 was one of…
As I’m getting along in my 1966 replay (ok, I’m not THAT far), I thought I’d start entering in statistics. Mostly so I can get the process in place. I’ll probably do a longer article about that process later but there were a couple broader questions that came up as…
Just passing on a few links some of you might find fun/helpful: Seamheads.com hasn’t forgotten their baseball history and even better, they write about it. Almost daily. I’ve been following El Beisbol: The Story of Latinos in Baseball on Facebook. It’s eventually going to be a two-hour documentary on PBS. …
Ron Fairly: Cub Killer I’m getting my money’s worth out of the 1966 set with the replay I’m doing. Lots of close, low-scoring games. The two games I finished between the Cubs and Dodgers were no exception. April 15th Chicago at Los Angeles Cubs score a quick two runs in…
Hi all, I’m giving you heads up to a project I’m starting for The APBA Blog. I’m calling it the Great APBA Fan Survey because that pretty much what it is. Some time in the near future I will go live with an online survey which will ask all APBA…
Like I said earlier, I was cleaning my office this weekend. Every time I do that, I find things. I ran across my Twin City Thunderchickens team mascot, Chuck the Chicken. I think I wrote about him in an article I did about league mascots a while back. Poor Chuck…
Some of best things are found when cleaning your office. I had this week’s Monster Card chosen already chosen when I ran across this baby when doing some spring cleaning Sunday afternoon. The other one will have to wait till next week. Enter 1989 Cris Carpenter of the St Louis…