Simple, right? Similar to Strat-O-Matic, which seemed to have more of a national following than APBA, but the idea was basic.Īlong with the game cards mini sandwich board-style results that one used to look up what the numbers indicated. That number represented the result of an at-bat. To the right of the 41 on the players' card showed another number. Say a dice roller/player rolled the two dice and one die showed 4 and the other 1 – that represented 41. The numbers on the left side represented the dice roll and were listed as 11 to 16, 21-26, 31-36, 41-46, 51-56, and 61-66. Below that was a series of numbers in three columns.

The cards held the magic.Ībout the size of a baseball card, an APBA Baseball card had a players' name listed at the top, along with his vitals: height, weight, birthdate, city of birth, and the position he played. The main component of the game was a set of dice – one larger than the other – and a bunch of cards. It had some text describing that APBA Baseball was a simulation game based on statistics and probability. It was probably when I was eight or nine years old when I noticed the advertisements in the back of Baseball Digest for something called APBA Baseball.