8/27/2023 0 Comments 1953 apba baseball cards game![]() ![]() It was all too much for a 12 year old to take in. Would hold the check for several weeks before filling the order to make sure Two days later, I would wait for my dad to show up with the mail to see if it had arrived (I guess I was already expecting Amazon Prime service 40 years ahead of its time.)ĭays turned to weeks and my mom explained that often vendors I convinced my mom it would be life changing for me and she wrote the check and we sent if off. While $32 doesn’t seem like much now, it felt like $1,000 in today’s economy. The process was unbelievable long, I sent off for an information packet, which in turn had the form to purchase. While reading a baseball preview magazine in 1977, I saw an advertisement for a simulated baseball game called APBA. Soon followed, but in 1978, I found the solution that forever cemented by love To teach myself how to keep score soon after from Braves radio. ![]() Parents (I still do!), but at the time, they really weren’t that much intoīaseball, I lived almost two hours from Atlanta and the Braves, which was a lotįurther back then that is seems now and there were virtually no games on TV.īut somehow, I started reading the box scores when I was around seven and began The odds were stacked against me, I had amazing As a kid growing up in rural Middle Georgia in the 70s, I ![]()
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