[JohnHoward]

I inherited my uncle's APBA and Cadaco games, which I played as a kid. He had the original 1951 through 1955 sets, with the original boards and sacrifice booklet, with Seitz's hand-typed insert sheet for the hit & run play. I still have all of that set in good condition.

The first APBA set I bought for myself was the 1976 set based on the 1975 season. I played the heck out of it. Bought a few more sets over the years and enjoyed the Master Game and Baseball for Windows versions as well.

I created a baseball game with playing cards and dice with a kid I grew up next door to in the 70's. We had ratings for hitting, power, and speed for batters, and strikeouts, walks, and hits for pitchers. (Sound familiar?) We didn't know what to do for fielding, and probably at that point couldn't tell good fielding from bad, but I played that game for hours as well.