It’s strange that up until today, I haven’t featured the 1961 Mickey Mantle card on Monster Monday. In fact, Mantle hasn’t appeared on this blog yet! That is going to change now. Many thanks to reader Gerard Pastorius who posted this card recently on Facebook. If it were it any…
A few days after I posted about the APBA Baseball Card 12 List and Publication Data Guide, Doug Burg contacted me. Doug has compiled the APBA 12 List for years and after he read that post, he sent me an updated version! This is fantastic! As I’ve said, I use…
A true APBA legend has passed on. The APBA Newsletter reports that Edwin Zack has passed away on August 8th. To many of us, Ed Zack was most famous for editing the popular “APBA Baseball: The Handbook for APBA Baseball Cards”. In short, it was known as the ‘Zack Handbook’…
Alan Hobbs sent me a very thoughtful email a while back updating me on his APBA projects. He included a very fun card which was perfect for Monster Monday. It wasn’t until I researched it a bit did I realized how special this season was. This is Willie Stargell’s 1973…
Those who have played APBA baseball for several years will remember when APBA used put the result number 12 on different number on the card for all players each year. One year it would be at one dice roll number and the next it would be at another. Eventually, APBA…
Jim Saska, who was the organizer of the first Chicagoland tournament I attended, writes to tout his upcoming tourney in the Richmond, Virginia area. Since his Chicagoland days, Jim has started his own tourney back east and it is going strong. Jim writes: “We are three weeks away from the team…
How many Monster Cards can Babe Ruth have? A lot, apparently. Below, I have a list of links to each one. No doubt, the Babe was a groundbreaker in the game of baseball and his APBA cards bear this out. I have featured him more often on Monday (Ted Williams…
Rich Zawadzki has a calling. We all know that. He has a calling to find me monster cards that I haven’t featured yet on this blog. It’s a chore because I’ve posted the best of the best. But Pastor Rich always comes through for me. This time, he found a…
Last Saturday was the famed Chicagoland Summer APBA Baseball Tournament. Normally, I would have been in attendance but it’s been a busy summer and a hundred things got in the way. I sure missed seeing everyone. I’ll bet Butch Newton is glad he made it. Butch’s 1973 Atlanta Braves went…
Up in Michigan, Bob Winenger is taking the reins of the 2023 Island City Classic APBA Tournament. This is the same Plainwell MI tourney that was headed by John Roels. Bob is now trying to get the word out. When: September 16, 2023 8:30am Where: Fortress of Solitude at 116…