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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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Volume 9, #12 "AJ Focus, Let APBA Run Baseball, In Your League"

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Product Line: APBA Journal

July 1976

Volume 9, #9 "Around the Track and Back, No Truth to Gameco Sale, APBA Convention 1976"

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Product Line: APBA Journal

April 1976

APBA Baseball 1905 Player Cards - Complete Set

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Product Line: APBA Baseball - Card Sets 1919 and Earlier

APBA Baseball 1919 Player Cards - Complete Set

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Product Line: APBA Baseball - Card Sets 1919 and Earlier

APBA Baseball 1963 Player Cards - Complete Set (1992 Printing)

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Product Line: APBA Baseball - Card Sets 1960-1979

APBA Baseball 2005 Player Cards - Complete Set

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Product Line: APBA Baseball - Card Sets 2000-2019

APBA Baseball 1937 Player Cards - Complete Set (1996 Printing)

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Product Line: APBA Baseball - Card Sets 1920-1939

APBA Baseball 1958 Player Cards - Complete Set (1992 Printing)

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Product Line: APBA Baseball - Card Sets 1940-1959

APBA Baseball 1964 Player Cards - Complete Set (1965 Printing)

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Product Line: APBA Baseball - Card Sets 1960-1979

APBA Baseball 1986 Player Cards - Complete Set (2015 Printing)

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Product Line: APBA Baseball - Card Sets 1980-1999

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

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Product Line: APBA Baseball - Card Sets 2000-2019

APBA Major League Baseball (2nd Edition) w/Complete 1972 Season

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Product Line: APBA Baseball - Base Games & Supplies

2001 Season Disk

2001 Season Disk

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Product Line: APBA Football Software (APBA)

PC 3.5"

2009 Golfer Set (Original Print)

2009 Golfer Set (Original Print)

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Product Line: APBA Golf

2010 Golfer Set

2010 Golfer Set

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2016 Golfer Set

2016 Golfer Set

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Product Line: APBA Golf

2017-18 Hockey Player Cards

2017-18 Hockey Player Cards

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Product Line: APBA Hockey

2018 Golfer Set

2018 Golfer Set

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Product Line: APBA Golf

2019 Golfer Set

2019 Golfer Set

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2019-20 English Premier League Complete Season

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Product Line: APBA Soccer

2020-21 English Premier League Complete Season

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Product Line: APBA Soccer

All-Time-Greats Card Set (2011 Edition)

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Stock #: APBAGMATG2

Product Line: APBA Golf

APBA Baseball (1979 Edition)

APBA Baseball (1979 Edition)

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Product Line: APBA Baseball - Base Games & Supplies

APBA Baseball (2013 Edition)

APBA Baseball (2013 Edition)

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APBA Baseball - 1986 Teams (1987 Printing)

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APBA Baseball - The Handbook for APBA Baseball Cards

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APBA Baseball 1883 Player Cards - Complete Set (1994 Printing)

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Product Line: APBA Baseball - Card Sets 1919 and Earlier

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

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Product Line: APBA Baseball - Card Sets 1920-1939

APBA Baseball 1929 Player Cards - Complete Set (1993 Printing)

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APBA Baseball 1946 Player Cards - Complete Set (1993 Printing)

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Product Line: APBA Baseball - Card Sets 1940-1959

APBA Baseball 1948 Player Cards - Complete Set (1980 Printing)

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Product Line: APBA Baseball - Card Sets 1940-1959

APBA Baseball 1950 Player Cards - Complete Set (1984 Printing)

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Product Line: APBA Baseball - Card Sets 1940-1959

APBA Baseball 1951 Player Cards - Complete Set (2016 Printing)

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Product Line: APBA Baseball - Card Sets 1940-1959

APBA Baseball 1952 Player Cards - Complete Set (2011 Printing)

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Product Line: APBA Baseball - Card Sets 1960-1979

APBA Baseball 1955 Player Cards - Complete Set (1991 Printing)

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Product Line: APBA Baseball - Card Sets 1940-1959

APBA Baseball 1956 Player Cards - Complete Set (1992 Printing)

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Product Line: APBA Baseball - Card Sets 1940-1959

APBA Baseball 1958 Player Cards - Complete Set (2005 Printing)

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Product Line: APBA Baseball - Card Sets 1940-1959

APBA Baseball 1959 Player Cards - Complete Set (2007 Printing)

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Product Line: APBA Baseball - Card Sets 1940-1959

APBA Baseball 1961 Player Cards - Complete Set (1988 Printing)

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Product Line: APBA Baseball - Card Sets 1960-1979

APBA Baseball 1962 Player Cards - Complete Set (2018 Printing)

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Product Line: APBA Baseball - Card Sets 1960-1979

APBA Baseball 1963 Player Cards - Complete Set (2016 Printing)

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Product Line: APBA Baseball - Card Sets 1960-1979

APBA Baseball 1964 Player Cards - Complete Set (1989 Printing)

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Product Line: APBA Baseball - Card Sets 1960-1979

APBA Baseball 1965 Player Cards - Complete Set (2010 Printing)

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Product Line: APBA Baseball - Card Sets 1960-1979

APBA Baseball 1968 Player Cards - Complete Set (1969 Printing)

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Product Line: APBA Baseball - Card Sets 1960-1979

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

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Product Line: APBA Baseball - Card Sets 1960-1979

APBA Baseball 1970 Player Cards - Complete Set (1992 Printing)

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Product Line: APBA Baseball - Card Sets 1960-1979

APBA Baseball 1970 Player Cards - Complete Set (2004 Printing)

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Product Line: APBA Baseball - Card Sets 1960-1979

APBA Baseball 1987 Player Cards - Complete Set (2023 Printing)

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Product Line: APBA Baseball - Card Sets 1980-1999

APBA Baseball 1993 Player Cards - Complete Set (2017 Printing)

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Product Line: APBA Baseball - Card Sets 1980-1999

APBA Baseball 2003 Player Cards - Complete Set (2004 Printing)

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Product Line: APBA Baseball - Card Sets 2000-2019

APBA Baseball 2006 Player Cards - Complete Set

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Product Line: APBA Baseball - Card Sets 2000-2019

APBA Baseball 2009 Player Cards - Complete Set

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Product Line: APBA Baseball - Card Sets 2000-2019

APBA Baseball 2010 Player Cards - Complete Set (2016 Printing)

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Product Line: APBA Baseball - Card Sets 2000-2019

APBA Baseball Game (1992 Edition)

APBA Baseball Game (1992 Edition)

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Product Line: APBA Baseball - Base Games & Supplies

APBA Baseball Game (1996 Edition)

APBA Baseball Game (1996 Edition)

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Product Line: APBA Baseball - Base Games & Supplies

APBA Baseball Great Teams of the Past Vol. 1

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Product Line: APBA Baseball - Card Sets, Special Sets

APBA Baseball Great Teams of the Past Vol. 2

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APBA Baseball Great Teams of the Past Vol. 3

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APBA Baseball Great Teams of the Past Vol. 4

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APBA Baseball Hall of Famers (2016 Printing)

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Product Line: APBA Baseball - Card Sets, Special Sets