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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 Master Game (1st Printing)

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Product Line: APBA Baseball - Base Games & Supplies

APBA Baseball Master Game (2nd Printing)

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Product Line: APBA Baseball - Base Games & Supplies

APBA Baseball Negro League All-Time All-Stars A Team

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Product Line: APBA Baseball - Card Sets, Special Sets

APBA Baseball Negro League All-Time All-Stars B Team

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Product Line: APBA Baseball - Card Sets, Special Sets

APBA Baseball Negro League All-Time All-Stars C Team

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Product Line: APBA Baseball - Card Sets, Special Sets

APBA Baseball World Series 1966

APBA Baseball World Series 1966

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Product Line: APBA Baseball - Card Sets, Special Sets

APBA Baseball World Series 2004

APBA Baseball World Series 2004

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Product Line: APBA Baseball - Card Sets, Special Sets

APBA Baseball World Series 2016

APBA Baseball World Series 2016

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Product Line: APBA Baseball - Card Sets, Special Sets

APBA Basketball 1969-70 Player Cards

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Product Line: APBA Basketball

APBA Basketball 1995-96 Player Cards

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Product Line: APBA Basketball

APBA Football 1959 Super Bowl Teams

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Product Line: APBA Football (Professional Leagues)

APBA Football 1963 Player Cards (1965 Printing)

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Product Line: APBA Football (Professional Leagues)

APBA Football 1963 Player Cards (2020 Printing)

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Product Line: APBA Football (Professional Leagues)

APBA Football 1965 NFL Player Cards (1967 Printing)

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Product Line: APBA Football (Professional Leagues)

APBA Football 1967 NFL Player Cards (1969 Printing)

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Product Line: APBA Football (Professional Leagues)

APBA Football 1967 Player Cards (2020 Printing)

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Product Line: APBA Football (Professional Leagues)

APBA Football 1968 AFL Player Cards (1970 Printing)

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Product Line: APBA Football (Professional Leagues)

APBA Football 1978 Player Cards (2021 Printing)

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Product Line: APBA Football (Professional Leagues)

APBA Football 1980 Player Cards (2024 Printing)

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Product Line: APBA Football (Professional Leagues)

APBA Football 1983 Extra Player Cards (1985 Printing)

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Product Line: APBA Football (Professional Leagues)

APBA Football 2013 Player Cards

APBA Football 2013 Player Cards

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Product Line: APBA Football (Professional Leagues)

APBA Football All-Stars Player Cards

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Product Line: APBA Football (Professional Leagues)

APBA Golf - Hamptons Golf Course

APBA Golf - Hamptons Golf Course

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Product Line: APBA Golf - Courses

APBA Golf - Monterrey

APBA Golf - Monterrey

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Product Line: APBA Golf - Courses

APBA Major League Baseball (1st Edition) w/Complete 1976 Season

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Product Line: APBA Baseball - Base Games & Supplies

APBA Major League Baseball (2nd Edition) w/Complete 1975 Season

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Product Line: APBA Baseball - Base Games & Supplies

APBA Major League Baseball (2nd Edition) w/Complete 1984 Season

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Product Line: APBA Baseball - Base Games & Supplies

APBA Pro Basketball (1967 Edition) w/1967-68 Complete Season

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Product Line: APBA Basketball

APBA Pro Basketball (1968/69 Teams)

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Product Line: APBA Basketball

APBA Pro Basketball (1969/70 Teams)

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Product Line: APBA Basketball

APBA Pro Football (2000 Edition)

APBA Pro Football (2000 Edition)

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Product Line: APBA Football (Professional Leagues)

APBA Pro Hockey (2014 Edition)

APBA Pro Hockey (2014 Edition)

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Product Line: APBA Hockey

APBA Pro League Football Game (1985 Teams)

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Product Line: APBA Football (Professional Leagues)

APBA Pro League Football Game (1986 Teams)

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Product Line: APBA Football (Professional Leagues)

APBA Pro League Football Game w/1966 Teams

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Product Line: APBA Football (Professional Leagues)

APBA Pro League Football Game w/1977 Teams

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Product Line: APBA Football (Professional Leagues)

APBA Pro League Football Master Game - No Player Cards!

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Product Line: APBA Football (Professional Leagues)

Master Game Addition

Master Game Addition

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Stock #: APBMAST

Product Line: APBA Baseball - Base Games & Supplies

Racing's All Time Greats Card Set (2nd Printing)

By: APBA Games

Product Line: APBA Horse Racing

Saddle Racing Horses & Jockeys (1971 Season)

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Product Line: APBA Horse Racing

Volume 10, #2 "APBA Cult Grows and Grows, How Honest Are Mail Leagues, Inside APBA"

By: APBA Games

Product Line: APBA Journal

October/November 1976

Volume 10, #3 "1977 Cards, The Prodigious Poke, Page of Opinions"

By: APBA Games

Product Line: APBA Journal

November/December 1976

Volume 11, #1 "Career Cards for Pickets, Replaying 1973, New Williams Card Proposed"

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Product Line: APBA Journal

August 1977

Volume 19, #9 "Reviewing the 1986 Baseball Card Set, APBA's 9 Best Hitters Cards Ever, Updating the Co-op '57 Replay"

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Product Line: APBA Journal

April 1986

#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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Product Line: APBA News

1941 Golfer Set (2012 Printing)

1941 Golfer Set (2012 Printing)

By: APBA Games

Product Line: APBA Golf

1964 Golfer Set (2012 Printing)

1964 Golfer Set (2012 Printing)

By: APBA Games

Product Line: APBA Golf

1972 Golfer Set

1972 Golfer Set

By: APBA Games

Stock #: APBA32C72

Product Line: APBA Golf

1976 Golfer Set

1976 Golfer Set

By: APBA Games

Stock #: APBA32D76

Product Line: APBA Golf

1984 Season Bowler Cards

1984 Season Bowler Cards

By: APBA Games

Product Line: APBA Bowling

1985 Golfer Set (2018 Printing)

1985 Golfer Set (2018 Printing)

By: APBA Games

Stock #: APBA32G85-18

Product Line: APBA Golf

1992-93 Hockey Player Cards

1992-93 Hockey Player Cards

By: APBA Games

Product Line: APBA Hockey

1996-97 Season Team Disk

1996-97 Season Team Disk

By: APBA Games

Product Line: APBA Hockey Software (APBA)

PC 3.5"

1999 Ryder Cup Set

1999 Ryder Cup Set

By: APBA Games

Product Line: APBA Golf

2010 Ladies Golf Set

2010 Ladies Golf Set

By: APBA Games

Product Line: APBA Golf

2011-12 English Premier League Complete Season (2015 Edition)

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Stock #: APBASE2012

Product Line: APBA Soccer

2014 World Cup Card Set

2014 World Cup Card Set

By: APBA Games

Product Line: APBA Soccer

2015-16 Stanley Cup Semifinalist Teams

By: APBA Games

Product Line: APBA Hockey

2017 Ladies Golf Set

2017 Ladies Golf Set

By: APBA Games

Product Line: APBA Golf