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!
Well now. After shocking the world (the world defined as the guy that looks back at me in the mirror on those days I deign to shave), Kerry squares off against those dastardly Diamond Dogs.
Third-place finishers in real-life, the White Sox upended the Yankees and Indians, who finished ahead of them in 1955, clinching the AL crown with more than a week to go in this replay.
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.
The UAL season doesn’t really start until October 1. I’m on reasonably good terms with the commish, so I figured he wouldn’t mind if I started a little early.
I’m sure you have heard that Pete Rose is no longer with us. Rose passed away last week at the age of 83. Rose had a complicated relationship with Major League Baseball to say the least. I was actually in attendance at the 1989 Baseball Hall of Fame ceremonies when…
And like that, Don George is on to his next replay. He just finished his replay of the 1979 Boston Red Sox who really liked to hit home runs. Aside from that, the replay stats were very similar to the actual numbers. Here’s Don’s recap: “Just completed the 1979 Boston Red…
It was a long happy weekend for the Illowa APBA League as we celebrated our 50th All-Star game. It was especially happy for the Country Boys.