They never sold single teams."ĭear Babe: I found a photo (approximately 15x10 inches) of the starting lineup of the San Francisco Giants - (Willie) Mays, Orlando Cepeda, Jim Davenport, etc., at their very first game at Seals Stadium on April 15, 1958, at a yard sale many years ago.
APBA collectors are looking for complete season sets - all the teams - since that's how the company originally sold them. "Even if it's all the way back to the 1970s, it's a $2-$5 item," said Francis Rose of Gaithersburg, Md., an APBA collector and dealer. Combined with the situation in the game and the info on the board, the rolls turn into players.
Each player's card has numbers next to dice rolls. "The football cards function the same as the baseball cards do in the baseball game," said John Henson, owner of APBA is played with a game board and a pair of dice. They have no pictures of players on them.ĪPBA, which originally stood for American Professional Baseball Association, is sort of the granddaddy of today's fantasy leagues.įor the uninitiated, APBA baseball is a game in which a player's stats from a given year have been broken down on a playing card to correspond to rolls of a pair of dice along with various game situations listed on the playing boards. The cards are plain with numbers corresponding to rolls of the dice. Pro League Football." The back has personal info and how each player rated on offense, defense and pass receiving.- John Brown, RialtoBabe: Usually not knowing the year or player names makes it virtually impossible to determine value. Dear Babe: I have a set of 30 New Orleans Saints cards.
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