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APBA ad from 1962: “Want To Manage in the Majors?”

The Baseball Zealot — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 03:24:21 +0000

“You can Do it in Your Own Home!”, it proudly states.

The wording and format in this ad seems somewhat archaic perhaps. Yet at the same time, I can sense the pride that Dick Seitz had in his product. So much so that he wanted to go into detail on how to play the game (“you coach the runners” and “you set your infield “deep” or “in”.)

I note that it has the James St. address (before the Millersville Rd location that I’m so familiar).

Thanks to John Heneghan from Naperville, IL for passing on this gem!

Let’s get J. Richard Seitz on Wikipedia

The Baseball Zealot — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 04:59:17 +0000

I was doing some general research the other day and I noticed that APBA founder J. Richard Seitz does not have his own entry page on Wikipedia. Maybe it’s me but I thought that was a glaring omission. Besides being the founder of one of oldest tabletop sports games out there, it was my impression that Seitz was a pretty upstanding citizen of the Lancaster, PA community.

If you check out APBA’s entry on Wikipedia, you’ll see that it links to a starter page for Seitz. However, Seitz’s page just doesn’t have any information about him on it.

I’m not a member of the Wikipedia editing community so I thought I’d reach out and see if there was anyone out there who was. If so, let’s get some info about Dick Seitz on his Wikipedia page. A good source of information is from APBA itself. They have a good bio page on Seitz.

Any takers?

Blast from the past: photos from 2002 APBA convention

The Baseball Zealot — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 04:04:05 +0000

I was re-organizing my photo gallery this afternoon and I ran across some photos from the 2002 APBA Convention. I remember this trip fondly. My buddy Brando and I drove out to Lancaster for the convention. On the way and on way back we saw some minor league games. The home teams we saw were the Indianapolis Indians, Reading Phillies, Harrisburg Senators plus the big league Pittsburgh Pirates.

Plus we got some APBA played. We were in the middle of our 1979 NL replay and we took time out at roadside parks to play a series or two.

heh, then there was the tournament at the APBA convention. I had the Milwaukee Braves of ’65 I believe. I remember thinking that Joe Torre and his APBA smarts would bring me luck.

Nope, Eric Naftaly and his ’59 Giants took care of me pretty well in the first round.

If memory serves, 2002 was the year the kid won the tournament. Does anyone remember his name?

I uploaded all the photos I found to the IAL photo gallery. Take a look.