APBA Baseball gets a mention on the Chicago Tribune’s article, Best sports toys ever: What’s missing from the Hall of Fame.
The National Toy Hall of Fame made their annual induction selections recently. Bubbles, Little Green Army Men and Rubik’s Cube were inducted. The Tribune listed the APBA Game as an omission from their Hall.
Also listed among the Trib’s suggestions was Strat-O-Matic Baseball.
Thanks to Jim Saska for passing this news tidbit along!
C’mon guys! The stick and the ball are among
the original inductees. Even with 58 honorees
(I think) I think APBA is still on the outside looking in for a very long time. After all, the paper plane didn’t make it this year.
This is a tough, tough HOF to crack.
agreed, Gary. It’s still nice that it got mentioned.
My guess is that since both APBA baseball and Strat-o-Matic baseball were listed, the Tribune author is a sports fan :)
Oh, indeed. After all,the ball and stick may be the toy equivalent of Ruth and Gehrig but how many kids are still playing with the same toy they picked up at 15 decades later?
Not many I’d be willing to venture. So, HOF or not, APBA is still the greatest.