Monster Card Monday: 1968 Luis Tiant RIP
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 2024 Kerry Highlanders Season Opens
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.
Monster Card Monday: 1969 Pete Rose RIP
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…
Bosox clobber 222 bombs in Don George’s 1979 replay
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…
IAL’s Country Gents win a tight extra-inning All-Star battle
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.
Does your wife know?
Mine didn’t. She does now. And still puts up with me. It all started junior year of high school. It was my third high school in as many years. (I went to four in four years. As Tom has observed, that explains a lot!) After school we would indulge in…
Our league meeting is going to be chock-full of goodness
…and by ‘goodness’, I mean ‘confusing rules and regulations’. Let me start by saying that unlike most league members, I generally like our Illowa APBA League meetings which happen once a year during the All-Star weekend. It’s the one time a year that we all talk as a group about…
Monster Card Monday: 1972 Don Durham
Okay, I know I’ll get some haters for this one as this monster card doesn’t belong to a Hall of Famer or even a regular starter. But Jerry Cuan dug up a winner and posted it on Facebook and I couldn’t resist. It’s Don Durham of the 1972 St. Louis…
To retro league or current day league?
That is the question. Yo. (Shakespeare and Rocky in consecutive sentences. Only on the APBA Blog.) Wait. Cart, get behind the horse. (That’s better.) I’m guilty of assuming that everyone wants to join a league.
Monster Card Monday: 1984 Cal Ripken
Until recently, Cal Ripken held the record for the most homers by an Oriole shortstop. Let’s do a Ripken card!