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They are a really dedicated bunch, and I see that at APBA, too. In that way, it is a lot like the sports card industry. "There are about 30,000 serious and passionate players of APBA who love the game. APBA is getting into online in a very big way and there are huge opportunities in

"A lot of people are coming back to the board and card games," Bordegon said, "and, at the other end, there's a lot of Internet play. The man in charge of the historic move is Bill Bordegon, former executive vice president of sales and marketing for the cardmaker Fleer/SkyBox, who was recently named president of AbleSoft's APBA Division. Later this year, APBA will launch its game for online league and individual play. Now, all these years later, APBA is entering the world of computer-gaming, through its current parent company, New Jersey-based AbleSoft, Inc., a publisher and developer of software and Internet-based programs for the education, sports and entertainment markets. later expanded into football, basketball and hockey strategy-based board games. If you started Warren Spahn, a Grade A-rated pitcher, one game, let's say, you'd have to wait three or four games to start him again, dipping down to lesser-quality pitchers - maybe even Grade C or D - in between and hoping for the best.įounded in 1951, the APBA Game Co. The statistics on the cards were so faithful to reality that as a "manager," you felt compelled to play the games according to the book. Just how would Bob Feller, Early Wynn, Bob Lemon and Mike Garcia stack up against Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig and Murderers' Row? If you wanted to know how the 1909 Tigers, 1927 Yankees or 1934 Cardinals would have fared against the 1954 Indians, say, you could match them up, for one game or a series, if the arms of your make-believe pitching staffs held up. It was far and away the most realistic offering on the market, with statistics-filled cards issued annually for each big-league team, as well as sets of many of the great teams of the past, a really neat feature. APBA had its competitors in the 1950s and 1960s, including a Cadaco-Ellis game with a spinner that always seemed to malfunction and discs that younger brothers and sisters just loved to toss around a room and ruin.īut it was the APBA game that held young baseball fans in sway for whole summers (and winters).