Reader Jerry Hill writes: Is every thing OK with you and the APBA Blog? I admit I’ve slacked off a bit lately. A job transition/promotion, focusing on my family (my youngest is in her senior year of high school) and working on some other projects has taken a little of…
Q: How does an APBA card reproduce 14 steals in just 6 plate appearances? A: Any way that it can. Season Totals Split G GS PA AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI SB CS BB SO BA OBP SLG 1967 Totals 34 0 6 6 7 1…
On Saturday, a total of 34 APBA fans descended onto the Comfort Inn-O’Hare in Des Plaines, Illinois to play APBA, talk baseball and have some fun. Thanks to the tireless efforts of organizer Rob Spatz this tourney could not have happened. APBA fans came as far as Michigan, Iowa and…
I was recently purchasing a season for the upcoming Chicagoland Tournament and I chose the 2016 Chicago Cubs. But since I don’t have the team and also wanted to own the first Cub world championship roster in my lifetime I went ahead and ordered it. However, when I went to…
Thanks to Kevin Burghardt for submitting this article! It really hit home. -TN So many of us that play this wonderful game called APBA Baseball have stated how it’s changed our lives for the better. I was thinking the other day just how true that is for me personally. As…
It always seems that the strangest cards come from sets during shortened seasons. In this case, this Doug Bair card hails from 1981 which was infamous for its split season due the labor dispute (sorry Reds fans!). Bair’s 1981 card is the ultimate in all-or-nothing. In six plate appearances, he…
When Scott Fennessy rolled a 33 on catcher Russ Martin against me at last weekend’s Illowa APBA League weekend, I cringed. I thought for sure, Russ banged out an rbi double. Fortunately for me, I had a B pitcher going and it was an out. My curiosity was piqued though…
In one of the closest Illowa APBA League All-Star games in history, the City Boys held off the Country Gents in a 6-5 contest. The City Boys had the lead the whole game but the Gents made a comeback scoring a run in the ninth inning bringing the score within…
It’s fun to see a future Hall of Famer’s APBA card before they made it big. Sometimes they start off slow with a poor card and then find their groove. In other cases like this 1953 Ernie Banks card, you get a quick snapshot of what is to come. Banks…
Okay, I grew up with the idea that Don Kessinger was a typical leadoff man. I suppose in the sixties, he sort of was. I’ve gotten past this of course but I’ve never forgotten the Kessinger-Beckert duo that led off so many Cubs games. Before Don K. got to the…