Mike’s dog has as big an appetite as he does :) Brando and I went to the lovely town of Colona to both play Papa Bunch and son on Saturday. In both series, our team got off to a good start but ended up on a losing note. We ended …
This is the third in a series of articles about candidates for the Illowa League Hall of Fame. It’s always difficult to predict how leadoff hitters will do in IAL Hall of Fame voting. Kenny Lofton was one of the best for about six or seven years, but like Craig Biggio …
The Thunderchickens got the best pitching in a series in recent memory. We still lost six out of nine. John Lackey and Scott Olsen both pitched shutouts for two of our wins. In Game 2, Jeff Niemann gave up three runs to the Bamm Beanos in the second inning …
The Thunderchickens held their own for the March weekend going .500. The sad part for us was that we hadn’t gotten around to playing the Champions yet. A week later, we played them over Skype and fell to them 1-5. For the weekend, we were 13-17. Our highlights: Jason Varitek …
The final series of the year for the Twin Cities Thunderchickens was a bittersweet one. We had to say farewell to a good friend. It was Tom Glavine’s last series in the Illowa APBA League. Fortunately, he gave us a good show to watch. In three appearances against the …
With Molly Putts Marauders on the schedule for December and both Don and I having busy holiday schedules, John was nice enough to pinch-manage Molly Putts today. We took over a table at the local coffee shop for four hours and got the series done. The Molly Putts took six …
