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. Seitz’s original game went with him to war in the 1940’s. The game is APBA, and the word is pronounced “App’Bah” – a term as slick and condensed as the game. So while APBA is still an acronym for that first baseball simulation league, the word has taken on a meaning of its own.
That appellation soon was whittled down to its essential form: APBA. The boys called themselves the American Professional Baseball Association. But unlike any previous board game, it combined the randomness of dice with the on-field performances of individual players. His game was loosely based on an old tabletop baseball game called National Pastime. The boys played a baseball simulation game invented by one of them, Dick Seitz.
Monster Card Monday: mid-2023 Ronald Acuna Jr.For 60 years APBA has been the unchallenged King of quality sports simulation products.ĪPBA dates back to the 1930s and a bunch of high-school buddies in Lancaster, PA.Mike Olson on Monster Card Monday: 2000 Glenallen Hill.Shawn Kaufman on Favorite Card Friday: 1998 Mark McGwire.Dan Diehm on Monster Card Monday: mid-2023 Shohei Ohtani.Hornsby’s ‘24 season was the pinnacle of the amazing six year stretch between 1921-1925 that he hit. He was rated a 2B-8 by APBA (though some might dispute that).
The icing on the cake is that all this offense was coming not from an outfielder or a first baseman but a second baseman. Hornsby also led the NL in runs (121), hits (227), doubles (43), walks (89), slugging (.696), and on-base percentage (.507) in 1924 for Branch Rickey’s St. It’s the sixth highest all-time and only Nap Lajoie of 1901 has one higher after 1900. Rajah led the NL in hitting with an astronomical. The Rogers Hornsby Card of 1924 is based on some pretty solid numbers. Well, this week’s Monster Card gives Bucketfoot Al a run for his money. Two weeks ago, I proclaimed 1930 Al Simmons’ card as one of the best full time cards out there. "I don’t like to sound egotistical, but every time I stepped up to the plate with a bat in my hands, I couldn’t help but feel sorry for the pitcher."
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