Pastor Rich Zawadzki who not only is a Red Sox fan but is almost ready for his famous Greater Michigan APBA Baseball Tournament this weekend, made a fine suggestion for the Monster Card Monday feature today. In fact, it was the very first Grade A&B pitcher I saw in…
The APBA Blog is taking on a new writer! His name is Kevin Weber and many of you may be familiar with his name. It all started with a thread on Facebook’s APBA Group centered around a Mickey Mantle card. I won’t give away too many details on that discussion…
Pastor Rich Zawadzki noticed that The APBA Blog has not given 1904 Jack Chesbro his due yet on Monster Monday. “Happy Jack” still holds the modern day record for wins in one season with his 41-12 record. In addition, he maintained a 1.82 ERA for the 1904 season for the…
Fueled by the recent article, A (not yet) comprehensive list of A&C and A&B starters through history, Pastor Rich Zawadzki came up with yet another idea. Rich, who put together the data for that piece, wondered which starting pitchers throughout history have put together successive seasons of A&C or better…
The 2016 Prairieland APBA Baseball Tournament is now in the books. We had a total of fifteen participants that traveled from as far away as Michigan and Nebraska to Urbana, Illinois to play APBA baseball. At the Hampton Inn, we broke into two divisions and played our opponents (one game…
It’s definitely APBA tournament season. While people are still talking about Pastor Rich Zawadzki’s Greater Michigan APBA Baseball Tournament which took place in March, the big talk now is last weekend’s Neil Ess Memorial Twin Cities APBA Baseball Tournament-V in Minnesota. Not only that, in less than two weeks, the…
We now have 13 confirmed participants for the April 16th Prairieland APBA Baseball Tournament in Urbana, Illinois! I’m excited to see some familiar faces as well as some new faces as well. Here is the updated team roster for the tourney: Manager Team Dick Butler 1908 Chicago Cubs Lew Ramey…
The APBA Blog tournament page is filling up. Thanks to Ron Emch’s heads up, I added two more tournaments for the 2016 season. Ron himself is organizing the second Toledo Glass City APBA Baseball Tournament on August 27, 2016. If it’s anything like the first, it should be very successful. …
I have the final rosters for my Terribles vs Monsters project! But one little thing to tidy up first… I’m calling it Bloggers’ Choice. I decided that Scott Fennessy and I have free reign to choose one player for each team. It could be any player written about that hasn’t…
Scott Fennessy asked me how things were going now that I’m in two leagues. Well, so far, so good. Both teams have winning records and I’m managing to keep up. The Illowa APBA League which tends to play a good portion of their games during league get-togethers, is in a…