There was "a fine line between having a hobby and mental illness." The hours we must have exhausted doing all this. Judge Charlie Glasrud told me he was a Strat-o-Matic We made do with Dick Seitz's APBA and that "villain" rival, Strat-o-Matic.
It took time to refine all that hardwareĭiscovered in that crashed UFO in the New Mexico desert (LOL). Game that really bloomed when my boomer generation was in its teens. The original game way back did not even have pitcher The basic concept of the game but he advanced it so far, we're inclined Was this creative person, a man of Pennsylvania. Trying for perfection made the game cumbersome and perhaps frustrating. I mean, he wanted his game to be easily playable for The creator, who it turns out stole his APBAĬoncept from a precursor game, kept tweaking until he finally vented Ah, there was cleverness everywhere in this game. A "Y" meant moderately good in this regard. An "F" rating for speed meant "fast." Tony Oliva was an "F" at the start of his career but at the sad end, ol' Tony could get thrown out at first on a liner that fell in.Ī pitcher with an "X" was good at strikeouts. Were only rated up to "3" because of being judged less valuable than Aĭefensive position or positions were specified along with numbersĭenoting fielding skill. You could size up a player within seconds just by "reading" his card. You could argue the cards were more useful than the Topps kind. In fact, I just appreciated having the APBA cards even if I chose not to play games.
Pitchers were graded to yield appropriate performances. No doubt, the best hitters in real life would be the best in APBA. We rolled the dice and went by numbers on player cards. Yes, a board game with the typical accoutrements. Major league baseball cannot be replicated with perfection Quite obsessive and would kick and scream about certain apparent We all knew each game had its strengths and weaknesses. Gimbel's in "Miracle on 34th Street." Game aficionados considered both decent. It was cute the way the two took pot shots at each other, a la Macy's vs. APBA and its rival Strat-o-Matic were the best for their time. If itĮxists it's a curiosity, or should be one.Ĭomputers can put together simulation models that would do rings around APBA. I won't even bother researching whether the game still exists.
APBA baseball is a museum piece showing how nerds developed complicated systems in pre-digital
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