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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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1992-93 Hockey Player Cards

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1994-95 Hockey Player Cards

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APBA Baseball (2013 Edition)

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APBA Baseball (2014 Edition)

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APBA Baseball 1927 Player Cards - Complete Set (1979 Printing)

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Product Line: APBA Baseball - Card Sets 1920-1939

APBA Baseball 1927 Player Cards - Complete Set (1998 Printing)

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Product Line: APBA Baseball - Card Sets 1920-1939

APBA Baseball 1928 Player Cards - Complete Set (1995 Printing)

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Product Line: APBA Baseball - Card Sets 1920-1939

APBA Baseball 1942 Player Cards - Complete Set (1977 Printing)

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Product Line: APBA Baseball - Card Sets 1940-1959

APBA Baseball 1958 Player Cards - Complete Set (1959 Printing)

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APBA Baseball 1959 Player Cards - Complete Set (1991 Printing)

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APBA Baseball 1960 Player Cards - Complete Set (2006 Printing)

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APBA Baseball 1963 Player Cards - Complete Set (1964 Printing)

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APBA Baseball 1964 Player Cards - Complete Set (2016 Printing)

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APBA Baseball 1965 Player Cards - Complete Set (1966 Printing)

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APBA Baseball 1965 Player Cards - Complete Set (2015 Printing)

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APBA Baseball 1969 Player Cards - Complete Set (1990 Printing)

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APBA Baseball 1973 Player Cards - Complete Set (1994 Printing)

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APBA Baseball 1976 Extra Player Cards (1977 Printing)

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APBA Baseball 1982 Player Cards - Complete Set (1983 Printing)

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APBA Baseball 2002 Player Cards - Complete Set (2003 Printing)

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APBA Baseball 2002 Player Cards - Complete Set (2015 Printing)

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APBA Baseball 2003 Player Cards - Complete Set (2017 Printing)

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APBA Baseball 2019 Player Cards - Complete Set

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APBA Baseball Great Teams of the Past

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Product Line: APBA Baseball - Card Sets, Special Sets

APBA Baseball Player Cards - 1951 Brooklyn Dodgers

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APBA Baseball Player Cards - 1951 New York Giants

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APBA Baseball World Series Game

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Product Line: APBA Baseball - Base Games & Supplies

APBA Bowling

APBA Bowling

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APBA Football 1955 Player Cards (1979 Printing)

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APBA Football 1971 Player Cards (1973 Printing)

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APBA Football 1972 Player Cards (2011 Printing)

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APBA Football 1980 Player Cards (1982 Printing)

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APBA Football 1981 Player Cards

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APBA Football 1992 Player Cards

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APBA Football 1997 Player Cards

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APBA Football 2000 Player Cards (Premiere Edition)

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APBA Football 2010 Player Cards

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APBA Golf - Seaside Golf Course

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Product Line: APBA Golf - Courses

APBA Pro Basketball (1971/72 Teams)

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APBA Pro Basketball (1971/72 Teams)

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APBA Pro Basketball (1971/72 Teams)

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APBA Pro Basketball (1994/95 teams)

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APBA Pro Hockey Game (1992-93 Season)

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Product Line: APBA Hockey Software (APBA)

PC 5.25"

APBA Pro League Football Game (1974 Teams)

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APBA Pro League Football Game (1980 Teams)

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NFL Football All-Stars

NFL Football All-Stars

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Original Franchise All-Stars

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Product Line: APBA Baseball - Card Sets, Special Sets

Saddle Racing Horses & Jockeys (1973 Season)

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Product Line: APBA Horse Racing

Saddle Racing Horses & Jockeys (1987 Season)

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Volume 12, #7 "Contest Results, Something New from 1908, Formula Focus"

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Product Line: APBA Journal

February 1979

Volume 19, #8 "Opening Day at the APBA Game Company, A Little Piece of Heaven in Lancaster, The Great IPTAY Fiasco"

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March 1986

Volume 7, #5 "APBA Prints 1949 Baseball, AJ Focus, Dave Hull"

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January 1974

Volume 7, #6 "Two Sample Cards for '74, AJ Focus, Ivy League APBA"

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Fabruary 1974

#1 "Simulation vs. Hands on, Football Home Rules, Carding a Wild Card Winner"

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Product Line: APBA News

#2 "Japanese Baseball - The Other Game, APBANation Meeting in Lancaster, Flowers that Bloom in the Spring"

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1941 Golfer Set (2012 Printing)

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Product Line: APBA Golf - Players and Games

1964 Golfer Set (2012 Printing)

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Product Line: APBA Golf - Players and Games

1985 Golfer Set (2018 Printing)

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1996-97 Season Team Disk

1996-97 Season Team Disk

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Product Line: APBA Hockey Software (APBA)

PC 3.5"

1999 Ryder Cup Set

1999 Ryder Cup Set

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Product Line: APBA Golf - Players and Games

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