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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 Pro Football (2017 Edition)

APBA Pro Football (2017 Edition)

By: APBA Games

Product Line: APBA Football (Professional Leagues)

APBA Pro Football (2021 Edition)

APBA Pro Football (2021 Edition)

By: APBA Games

Product Line: APBA Football (Professional Leagues)

APBA Pro Football Game (2008 Edition)

By: APBA Games

Stock #: APBDDOGA

Product Line: APBA Football (Professional Leagues)

APBA Pro Hockey (2021 Edition)

APBA Pro Hockey (2021 Edition)

By: APBA Games

Product Line: APBA Hockey

APBA Pro Hockey (2nd Edition)

APBA Pro Hockey (2nd Edition)

By: APBA Games

Product Line: APBA Hockey

APBA Pro Hockey (3rd Edition)

APBA Pro Hockey (3rd Edition)

By: APBA Games

Stock #: APBHGAME

Product Line: APBA Hockey

APBA Pro Hockey Game (1992-93 Season)

By: APBA Games

Product Line: APBA Hockey Software (APBA)

PC 5.25"

APBA Pro League Football Game (1957 Teams)

By: APBA Games

Product Line: APBA Football (Professional Leagues)

APBA Pro League Football Game (1967 Teams)

By: APBA Games

Product Line: APBA Football (Professional Leagues)

APBA Pro League Football Game (1968 Teams)

By: APBA Games

Product Line: APBA Football (Professional Leagues)

APBA Pro League Football Game (1972 Teams)

By: APBA Games

Product Line: APBA Football (Professional Leagues)

APBA Pro League Football Game (1973 Teams)

By: APBA Games

Product Line: APBA Football (Professional Leagues)

APBA Pro League Football Game (1974 Teams)

By: APBA Games

Product Line: APBA Football (Professional Leagues)

APBA Pro League Football Game (1976 Teams)

By: APBA Games

Product Line: APBA Football (Professional Leagues)

APBA Pro League Football Game (1978 Teams)

By: APBA Games

Product Line: APBA Football (Professional Leagues)

APBA Pro League Football Game (1980 Teams)

By: APBA Games

Product Line: APBA Football (Professional Leagues)

APBA Pro League Football Game (1982 Teams)

By: APBA Games

Product Line: APBA Football (Professional Leagues)

APBA Pro League Football Game (1983 Teams)

By: APBA Games

Product Line: APBA Football (Professional Leagues)

APBA Pro League Football Game (1989 Teams)

By: APBA Games

Product Line: APBA Football (Professional Leagues)

APBA Pro League Football Game - No Player Cards!

By: APBA Games

Product Line: APBA Football (Professional Leagues)

APBA Pro Soccer Board Game

APBA Pro Soccer Board Game

By: APBA Games

Stock #: APBSGAME

Product Line: APBA Soccer

APBA Pro Soccer Board Game (2018 Edition)

By: APBA Games

Product Line: APBA Soccer

APBA Pro Soccer Board Game (2021 Edition)

By: APBA Games

Product Line: APBA Soccer

APBA Professional Golf Club Charts/Rules

By: APBA Games

Product Line: APBA Golf

APBA Race Records

APBA Race Records

By: APBA Games

Product Line: APBA Horse Racing

APBA Soccer Fast-Action Card Collection - Both Decks!

By: APBA Games

Product Line: APBA Soccer

April 2002 "2001 World Series Replay Card Set, 25 Years of APBAlone, Journey into the Mind of the Replayer"

By: APBA Games

Product Line: APBA Journal

August 2001 "2000 Football Card Rosters, Fielding One Review, Pitching Grade Values in Basic APBA"

By: APBA Games

Product Line: APBA Journal

Baseball's All-Timers #3 - Pre-Expansion (2018 Printing)

By: APBA Games

Product Line: APBA Baseball - Card Sets, Special Sets

Baseball's All-Timers (1999 Printing)

By: APBA Games

Product Line: APBA Baseball - Card Sets, Special Sets

Forty Years of APBA

Forty Years of APBA

By: APBA Games

Product Line: APBA Journal

Francis Rose 1964 Season Cards

Francis Rose 1964 Season Cards

By: APBA Games

Product Line: APBA Baseball - Card Sets, Special Sets

George Gerney Oakmont Course Set

George Gerney Oakmont Course Set

By: APBA Games

Product Line: APBA Golf - Courses

Great Teams of Men's Soccer World Cup Vol. 1

By: APBA Games

Product Line: APBA Soccer

Great Teams of Men's Soccer World Cup Vol. 2

By: APBA Games

Product Line: APBA Soccer

Great Teams of Men's Soccer World Cup Vol. 3

By: APBA Games

Product Line: APBA Soccer

Ladies All-Time Greats Golf Set

Ladies All-Time Greats Golf Set

By: APBA Games

Product Line: APBA Golf

Master Card Set 2017

Master Card Set 2017

By: APBA Games

Product Line: APBA Golf

Master Game Addition

Master Game Addition

By: APBA Games

Stock #: APBFOGA

Product Line: APBA Football (Professional Leagues)

November 2000 "Extreme Basebal, 2001 Final Stats"

By: APBA Games

Product Line: APBA Journal

November 2001 "2001 - Four Ones for Barry Bonds?, 2001 Baseball Rosters, APBA Hall of Fame"

By: APBA Games

Product Line: APBA Journal

October 2001 "Modifications to the Basic Baseball Game, Revised 2001 Football Rosters, 2000

By: APBA Games

Product Line: APBA Journal

Racing's All Time Greats Card Set (1st Printing)

By: APBA Games

Product Line: APBA Horse Racing

Saddle Racing Horses & Jockeys (1973 Season)

By: APBA Games

Product Line: APBA Horse Racing

Saddle Racing Horses & Jockeys (1978 Season)

By: APBA Games

Product Line: APBA Horse Racing

Saddle Racing Horses & Jockeys (1984 Season)

By: APBA Games

Product Line: APBA Horse Racing

Saddle Racing Horses & Jockeys (1986 Season)

By: APBA Games

Product Line: APBA Horse Racing

Saddle Racing Horses & Jockeys (1987 Season)

By: APBA Games

Product Line: APBA Horse Racing

Sideline Sports

Sideline Sports

By: APBA Games

Product Line: Computer Games (APBA Games)

PC CD-Rom

Volume 11, #6 "Visualizing the Game in APBA, Pitching Grades Previewed, Seman Says"

By: APBA Games

Product Line: APBA Journal

January 1978

Volume 12, #5 "100th Issue, The APBA Scene, APBA Through the Years"

By: APBA Games

Product Line: APBA Journal

December 1978

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

By: APBA Games

Product Line: APBA Journal

February 1979

Volume 13, #1 "Saddle Racing Strategy Suggestions, Linn on Leagues, APBA Football in Packerland"

By: APBA Games

Product Line: APBA Journal

August 1979

Volume 16, #5 "Fourteen Basic Game Pitching Grades, Grading Pass Receivers, Almost Impossible Crossword"

By: APBA Games

Product Line: APBA Journal

December 1982

Volume 17, #10 "APBA's 1950 Season, Bombs Away, 8th New England Tourney Features 22 Teams"

By: APBA Games

Product Line: APBA Journal

May 1984

Volume 17, #11 "Hoping for Mr. Outlier, The Skins Game, APBA Baseball Card Set Value"

By: APBA Games

Product Line: APBA Journal

June 1984

Volume 17, #12 "The CMBA Pitching System, Cardmaking Ideas, APBAlone"

By: APBA Games

Product Line: APBA Journal

July 1984

Volume 17, #8 "Undervalued Young Players In New Set, APBA Football, The Old & The New"

By: APBA Games

Product Line: APBA Journal

March 1984

Volume 17, #9 "New Baseball Card Set Analysis, I'm Special, AJ Leagues Coverage Resumes"

By: APBA Games

Product Line: APBA Journal

April 1984

Volume 18, #1 "AJ Begins 18th Year, Re-Play, Cardmaking Ideas"

By: APBA Games

Product Line: APBA Journal

August 1984