I’ve been in contact with Pete, the man who bought the 1956 original set of cards on Ebay I wrote about a few days back.
We initially got talking because he wanted to clarify my erroneous statement that the set was bought by a Sport Memorabilia shop.  My bad!  It was my error (though for [...]

 
Interesting auction on Ebay that just finished (here’s the link for as long as they keep it up).  The seller was auctioning off the original 1956 APBA baseball card set. 
Here the description of the set off the Ebay page:
 
This set has 15 of the original 1956 teams (Reds are missing). Those 15 teams [...]

On my White Sox trivia tear-off calendar today was this, “Introduced in 1866, Sebring’s Parlor Base Ball Field was the first tabletop baseball game.”  Doing some research I found an article on the Baseball Hall of Fame website, which talked about tabletop baseball games.  Visit the website and you can even play online versions of [...]