Charles Cox posted the original 1966 Dick Allen on Facebook and boy, it sure looked good! As some of you know, I have been off and on replaying the 1966 NL season (no comments from the peanut gallery, Bob) and through the All-Star break, Allen has been having himself an MVP season.
John Briggs sends in a report about the postseason of the Roberto Clemente Memorial Baseball Association which just finished its 50th season.
Olli Niemela is taking his own BATS project and enlisting the help of the APBA Baseball group on Facebook. Long story short, he was getting people’s opinions of the Cincinnati Reds representative for shortstop.
Darren Schulz sends an LBS tourney recap! With a new LBS record of 50 managers in attendance, the divisional round-robin formatallowed for no wild card entries in 2024. Win your division and you are in the Elite 8 of teamsfrom 1940-1999 with a winning percentage of .550 or under. When…
The APBA Games Company has released the carded players list of the 2024 season!
The 2024 Major League Baseball season is in the midst of the postseason and once again, The APBA Blog is excited to announce the APBA Blog Pitching Grade Challenge! This time around, it’s the Pitching Grade Challenge 7!
Speaking of long-lasting consistently good careers, here is a Willie Mays APBA card I haven’t featured till today. It comes via George Wazeck who posted this on Facebook: Hmmmm. I thought I knew a lot about 60s baseball, growing up on it, but I never heard Willie Mays referred to…
Steve sent me a copy of 1974 Sadaharu Oh from the Yomiuri Giants in the Nippon Pro Baseball Central League. Wowza! What a card!
This week, I’m going to feature another player’s card from the late sixties who passed away. At the risk of this column turning into a obit column, I couldn’t resist.