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…
…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…
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…
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.
Until recently, Cal Ripken held the record for the most homers by an Oriole shortstop. Let’s do a Ripken card!
In three weeks, the Illowa APBA League will convene for its annual All-Star Game. Votes have been cast and the ballots have been tabulated. We now have the starting lineup for the City Boys and the Country Gents. League voting is done by a simple ranked 5-3-1 weighted voting method…
When I was a kid, I would get old time baseball cards from the store. Do they still have those? They of course, included players like Babe Ruth, Ty Cobb and Joe DiMaggio. I pored over the bios and stats written on the back of these cards.
The UAL is getting ready for the waiver draft and the start of the season with the 2023 cards. My team, the Kerry Highlanders is in for an awful season.
Scott Fennessy passed on a monster card of a player I had barely heard of and I’m not sure why. I’m pretty well versed in baseball history but he really didn’t cross my radar.
This past week, I played our commissioner for the Illowa League August series. Let’s just say it didn’t go as planned.