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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 Baseball 2012 Player Cards - Complete Set (2012 Printing)

By: APBA Games

Product Line: APBA Baseball - Card Sets 2000-2019

MSRP $86.00

(includes XBs!)

APBA Baseball 2014 Player Cards - Complete Set (2014 Printing)

By: APBA Games

Product Line: APBA Baseball - Card Sets 2000-2019

MSRP $86.00

(includes XBs!)

APBA Baseball 2017 Player Cards - Complete Set

By: APBA Games

Product Line: APBA Baseball - Card Sets 2000-2019

APBA Baseball 2018 Player Cards - Complete Set

By: APBA Games

Product Line: APBA Baseball - Card Sets 2000-2019

APBA Baseball 2021 Player Cards - Complete Set

By: APBA Games

Product Line: APBA Baseball - Card Sets 2020 - Present

APBA Baseball 2022 Player Cards - Complete Set

By: APBA Games

Product Line: APBA Baseball - Card Sets 2020 - Present

MSRP $86.00

APBA Baseball Collection #2 - 30 Teams!

By: APBA Games

Product Line: APBA Baseball - Collections

APBA Baseball Collection #4 - 13 Teams!

By: APBA Games

Product Line: APBA Baseball - Collections

APBA Baseball Collection #7 - 69 players!

By: APBA Games

Product Line: APBA Baseball - Collections

APBA Baseball Game (50th Anniversary Edition)

By: APBA Games

Product Line: APBA Baseball - Base Games & Supplies

APBA Baseball Game (50th Anniversary Edition)

By: APBA Games

Product Line: APBA Baseball - Base Games & Supplies

APBA Baseball Master Game (1st Printing)

By: APBA Games

Product Line: APBA Baseball - Base Games & Supplies

(missing teams)
(includes1951 Dodgers and Giants)
(includes 1951 Dodger and Giants teams)

APBA Baseball Mega-Collection #3 - 4 Base Games + 445+ Teams + Extras!

By: APBA Games

Product Line: APBA Baseball - Base Games & Supplies

MSRP $2,740.00

(base game boxes fair)

APBA Baseball Player Cards - 1951 Brooklyn Dodgers

By: APBA Games

Product Line: APBA Baseball - Card Sets 1940-1959

APBA Baseball World Series Player Cards - Complete Set

By: APBA Games

Product Line: APBA Baseball - Card Sets, Special Sets

APBA Football 1957 Player Cards (1959 Printing)

By: APBA Games

Product Line: APBA Football

(envelopes VG)

APBA Football 1958 Player Cards (1960 Printing)

By: APBA Games

Product Line: APBA Football

(envelopes fair, card backs notated)

APBA Football 1959 Player Cards (1961 Printing)

By: APBA Games

Product Line: APBA Football

(envelopes Fair, envelopes and card backs notated)

APBA Football 1960 Player Cards (1962 Printing)

By: APBA Games

Product Line: APBA Football

(envelopes VG)

APBA Football 1961 Player Cards (1963 Printing)

By: APBA Games

Product Line: APBA Football

(envelopes VG)

APBA Football 1963 Player Cards (1965 Printing)

By: APBA Games

Product Line: APBA Football

(envelopes Fair, card backs notated)

APBA Football 1964 AFL Player Cards (1966 Printing)

By: APBA Games

Product Line: APBA Football

APBA Football 1964 NFL Player Cards (1966 Printing)

By: APBA Games

Product Line: APBA Football

(envelopes VG and notated)
(envelopes VG+)

APBA Football 1965 NFL Player Cards (1967 Printing)

By: APBA Games

Product Line: APBA Football

APBA Football 1966 NFL Player Cards (1968 Printing)

By: APBA Games

Product Line: APBA Football

(envelopes notated)

APBA Football 1968 NFL Player Cards (1970 Printing)

By: APBA Games

Product Line: APBA Football

(envelopes VG+ & notated)

APBA Football 1970 Player Cards (1972 Printing)

By: APBA Games

Product Line: APBA Football

(envelopes VG, includes extra players!)

APBA Football 1972 Player Cards (1991 Printing)

By: APBA Games

Product Line: APBA Football

(envelopes VG)
(envelopes VG+, includes extra players)

APBA Football 1976 Player Cards (1978 Printing)

By: APBA Games

Product Line: APBA Football

(includes extra players!)

APBA Football 1983 Player Cards (1985 Printing)

By: APBA Games

Product Line: APBA Football

(envelopes VG)
(envelopes fair, includes extra players)
(includes uncut extra players!)

APBA Football 1985 Player Cards (1986 Edition)

By: APBA Games

Product Line: APBA Football

(missing Kansas City cards)

APBA Football 1987 Player Cards (1988 Printing)

By: APBA Games

Product Line: APBA Football

(envelopes Fair+, includes extra players!)
(includes uncut extra players!)

APBA Football 1989 Player Cards (1990 Printing)

By: APBA Games

Product Line: APBA Football

APBA Football 1990 Player Cards

By: APBA Games

Product Line: APBA Football

(envelopes VG+, includes bonus players!)

APBA Football 1992 Player Cards

By: APBA Games

Product Line: APBA Football

(includes extra players!)

APBA Football 2000 Pro Bowl Edition

By: APBA Games

Product Line: APBA Football

APBA Football 2007 Player Cards

By: APBA Games

Product Line: APBA Football

MSRP $122.00

(includes sealed extra player cards)

APBA Football 2015 Player Cards

By: APBA Games

Product Line: APBA Football

MSRP $140.00

(missing New England team)

APBA Football Collection #1 - 4 Classic Teams!

By: APBA Games

Product Line: APBA Football

APBA Golf

By: APBA Games

Product Line: APBA Golf - Players and Games

(no score sheets)

APBA Golf - Badger Links (2nd Printing)

By: APBA Games

Product Line: APBA Golf - Courses

APBA Golf - Firestone Country Club

By: APBA Games

Product Line: APBA Golf - Courses

APBA Golf - Hamptons Golf Course

By: APBA Games

Product Line: APBA Golf - Courses

MSRP $30.00

APBA Golf - Magnolia Golf Course

By: APBA Games

Product Line: APBA Golf - Courses

APBA Golf - Masters Course (Augusta National)

By: APBA Games

Product Line: APBA Golf - Courses

APBA Golf - Merion Course

By: APBA Games

Product Line: APBA Golf - Courses

APBA Golf - Monterrey

By: APBA Games

Product Line: APBA Golf - Courses

APBA Golf - Palmetto Island

By: APBA Games

Product Line: APBA Golf - Courses

APBA Golf - Peachtree

By: APBA Games

Product Line: APBA Golf - Courses

APBA Golf - Pebble Beach Course

By: APBA Games

Product Line: APBA Golf - Courses

APBA Golf - Pine Valley Course

By: APBA Games

Product Line: APBA Golf - Courses

APBA Golf - Pinehurst Country Club

By: APBA Games

Product Line: APBA Golf - Courses

APBA Golf - The Stadium Course

By: APBA Games

Product Line: APBA Golf - Courses

APBA Negro League Card Set (1994 Printing)

By: APBA Games

Product Line: APBA Baseball - Card Sets, Special Sets

(notated)

APBA Plus Baseball 1960 Player Cards - Complete Set (1993 Printing)

By: APBA Games

Product Line: APBA Baseball - Card Sets 1960-1979

(envelopes notated, roster sheet included)

APBA Pro Basketball (1965/66 Teams)

By: APBA Games

Product Line: APBA Basketball

(no box)

APBA Pro Basketball (1969/70 Teams)

By: APBA Games

Product Line: APBA Basketball

APBA Pro Basketball (1972/73 Teams)

By: APBA Games

Product Line: APBA Basketball

(includes custom envelopes, originals included)

APBA Pro Basketball (1979/80 Teams)

By: APBA Games

Product Line: APBA Basketball

APBA Pro Football (1996 Edition)

By: APBA Games

Product Line: APBA Football

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