June 4 was Inter-League night pitting Steve Lewis of the Senior League against Junior League leader Steven Lewis. The Boothbay and other leagues buy cards for $80 a year with statistical information on 750 MLB players’ previous season. The Senior League has players with more seniority in APBA play. The Junior League members are Chuck Cunningham, Kirk Brewer, Steven Lewis and defending champion Bill Mansfield. In Boothbay, there are two leagues with four teams. Senior League members are Don Lewis, Steve Lewis, Blaine Blackman and Mike Rowe. Bush, presidential grandson and son-in-law David Eisenhower, actor Jeff Daniels, former New York City Mayor Ed Koch and former MLB players Jeff Sundberg and Bump Wills. In 1951, Seitz left his job as a truck firm purchaser and began marketing the game full-time.įamous APBA competitors include Presidents George H.W. It uses dice and a booklet filled with scenarios predicated on each Major League Baseball player’s previous season statistics. Richard Seitz and eight high school classmates devised the board game. The simulated baseball game began in Lancaster, Pennsylania nearly 90 years ago.

Since 1975, eight Boothbay teams have competed on Thursday nights in American Professional Baseball Association (APBA). Pitchers are striking out batters, hitters are smashing homers and managers are either geniuses or chumps based on their in-game decisions. Major League Baseball stadiums are dormant, but in a Hardwick Road trailer in Boothbay, the national pastime is being played.

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