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For 60 years APBA has been the unchallenged King of quality sports simulation products. APBA dates back to the 1930s and a bunch of high-school buddies in Lancaster, PA. The boys played a baseball simulation game invented by one of them, Dick Seitz. His game was loosely based on an old tabletop baseball game called National Pastime. But unlike any previous board game, it combined the randomness of dice with the on-field performances of individual players. The boys called themselves the American Professional Baseball Association. That appellation soon was whittled down to its essential form: APBA. So while APBA is still an acronym for that first baseball simulation league, the word has taken on a meaning of its own. The game is APBA, and the word is pronounced “App’Bah” – a term as slick and condensed as the game. Seitz’s original game went with him to war in the 1940’s. He printed player cards on his own printing press, typed out play charts and played APBA with three comrades in the barracks at Fort Eustis, VA. After the war, Seitz worked as secretary to Lancaster’s mayor and a purchaser for a trucking company, all the while refining APBA and playing the game with a league of friends. The plot twist that took APBA from a handmade diversion to a nationwide phenomenon comes courtesy of the 1950 Philadelphia Phillies. The Whiz Kids captured the fancy of Seitz and his wife, Jean, and got them so baseball crazy that they resurrected the game. It played so smoothly that in 1951, Seitz decided to share his creation. The original game offered 20 player cards for each of the 16 major league teams and two play charts. The whole shebang set you back $10. The 150 games sold encouraged Seitz that there was a market for his game so he produced new versions annually from 1952-56. That steady increase in sales encouraged Seitz to quit his job in 1957 to make APBA a career. Year by year, APBA’s fan base grew. As more gamers played exponentially more games, innovations like dual pitcher ratings and double hitting columns were incorporated – but innovations were allowed only to a point. APBA has always trod a fine line between realism and playability, and Seitz stood resolute against wrinkles or gimmicks that would add a smidgen of realism to the game at a cost of five minutes more per played game. As a result, the APBA baseball game played today is not much different than the 1957 version – one played millions of times by players worldwide. APBA changes with the times not only by changing, but by the rolls of the dice.

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APBA Football 1958 Player Cards (1988 Printing)

By: APBA Games

Year: 1988

Type: Ziplock

Product Line: APBA Football

APBA Football 1974 Player Cards (1976 Printing)

By: APBA Games

Year: 1975

Type: Ziplock

Product Line: APBA Football

APBA Football 1975 Player Cards (1977 Printing)

By: APBA Games

Year: 1976

Type: Ziplock

Product Line: APBA Football

APBA Football 1982 Player Cards (1984 Printing)

By: APBA Games

Year: 1984

Type: Ziplock

Product Line: APBA Football

APBA Baseball All-Time A Team

By: APBA Games

Stock #: APBAATA

Type: Ziplock

Product Line: APBA Baseball - Card Sets, Special Sets

APBA Football 1962 Player Cards (1964 Printing)

By: APBA Games

Year: 1964

Type: Ziplock

Product Line: APBA Football

APBA Football 1972 Player Cards (1974 Printing)

By: APBA Games

Year: 1974

Type: Ziplock

Product Line: APBA Football

APBA Football 1984 Player Cards (1986 Printing)

By: APBA Games

Year: 1985

Type: Ziplock

Product Line: APBA Football

APBA Football 1985 Player Cards (1986 Edition)

By: APBA Games

Year: 1986

Type: Ziplock

Product Line: APBA Football

APBA Football 1986 Player Cards (1987 Printing)

By: APBA Games

Year: 1987

Type: Ziplock

Product Line: APBA Football

APBA Football 1991 Player Cards (1993 Printing)

By: APBA Games

Year: 1992

Type: Ziplock

Product Line: APBA Football

Discounted

Volume 12, #10 "Crisis in APBAland, APBAlone, Linn on Leagues"

By: APBA Games

Year: 1979

Type: Magazine

Product Line: APBA Journal

May 1979

1962 Golfer Set

By: APBA Games

Stock #: APBA32A62

Type: Box Set

Product Line: APBA Golf - Players and Games

1966 Season Disk

By: APBA Games

Year: 1966

Type: Software (unboxed)

Product Line: APBA Football Software (APBA)

PC 5.25"

1972 Golfer Set

By: APBA Games

Stock #: APBA32C72

Type: Box Set

Product Line: APBA Golf - Players and Games

1974-75 Season Team Disk

By: APBA Games

Year: 1975

Type: Software (unboxed)

Product Line: APBA Hockey Software (APBA)

PC 5.25"

1978 Golfer Set

By: APBA Games

Stock #: APBA32E78

Type: Box Set

Product Line: APBA Golf - Players and Games

1981 Golfer Set

By: APBA Games

Stock #: APBA32F81

Type: Box Set

Product Line: APBA Golf - Players and Games

1984-85 Season Team Disk

By: APBA Games

Year: 1985

Type: Software (unboxed)

Product Line: APBA Hockey Software (APBA)

PC 5.25"

1985 Golfer Set

By: APBA Games

Stock #: APBA32G85

Type: Box Set

Product Line: APBA Golf - Players and Games

1985 Season Disk

By: APBA Games

Year: 1985

Type: Software (unboxed)

Product Line: APBA Football Software (APBA)

PC 3.5"

1987 Season Disk

By: APBA Games

Year: 1987

Type: Software (unboxed)

Product Line: APBA Football Software (APBA)

PC 5.25"

1988 Season Disk

By: APBA Games

Year: 1988

Type: Software (unboxed)

Product Line: APBA Football Software (APBA)

PC 5.25"

1989 Season Disk

By: APBA Games

Year: 1989

Type: Software (unboxed)

Product Line: APBA Football Software (APBA)

PC 5.25"

1990 Season Disk

By: APBA Games

Year: 1990

Type: Software (unboxed)

Product Line: APBA Football Software (APBA)

PC 5.25"

1991 Season Disk

By: APBA Games

Year: 1991

Type: Software (unboxed)

Product Line: APBA Football Software (APBA)

PC 5.25"

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