![]() ![]() Sometime in the late 1980s, APBA made the quantum leap into computerizing their game. As one of the game’s earliest, most consistently realistic baseball results games, I was able to play the old dice and board deciphering codes to replay whole major league seasons and arrive at outcomes in the standings and individual hitting, pitching, and fielding accomplishments that were statistically in line with whatever happened to the same teams and players in reality.ĪPBA developed football, hockey, and golf versions of their game over the years, but these held no interest for me – nor did the simpler game of Strat-o-Matic Baseball. Whenever I settled down to life domestically and professionally, I always came back to baseball – and in whatever forms it may have been available to me as a player, fan, reader, researcher, and writer.ĪPBA Baseball was always a part of the flow. ![]() Hey! I’m still that way! I never got over it, I suppose, except for the enjoyable, but testosterone-driven dating experience of my middle to later adolescent and young adult years – and all the time and energy I spent working my way through three college degrees and getting started in private practice. I was 15 years old and still quite involved in anything that pulled me closer to baseball on a 24/7 basis. I know that to be true because APBA still has a record of my purchase by mail from our home in Pecan Park. I bought my first game set from the company in June 1953. The APBA Baseball View of Minute Maid Park.ĪPBA Baseball has been around as a board game since 1951. ![]()
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