I didn’t need all the additional audio/visuals that came with the new version, but, I must admit, listening to the game in the play-by-play voice of the great Ernie Harwell, plus appropriate crowd noises in the background was a nice supportive touch. I took to the computer version immediately. When the computer version of APBA Baseball came out some twenty-five years ago, some lifetime players remained bonded to the cumbersome nostalgia of the cards and dice original version of “the game”. “Electric Baseball” was the only game I ever threw away personally – and it didn’t take long for me to make the discard. For example, on a base hit to right field, a runner on first might stop a few steps from 2nd base because of some litter or defect-scratch on the base paths that halted him – and then – here would come the batter/runner – racing to 2nd base behind him – only to be halted by the obstructively stuck first base runner so both could be tagged out on a double play possibility that most probably has never occurred in reality. Baseball runners – who traveled the bases in a little grooved track, would sometimes do the improbable. Football carriers in this “electric” game would often turn around and run the other way. I didn’t want the game to be about me – or chance – or special effects.Īs a kid, I once briefly owned the baseball version of that old vibrating field football game – the one where the players moved on little metal fins across a vibrating metal surface to only appear as players in action, but it was physics at its worst. When I first discovered it, it lifted me up from “pin ball” baseball – which was totally about the laws of motion and energy from physics and a player’s developing skill to pull the game knob at just the right time and release speed to achieve the best results. To think that I now could actually manage simulated big leaguers on the hard wood of my bedroom floor on rainy summer days or anytime during the school year – players who would actually come through in the competition very close to their actual performances on the real life diamond over a full season – just swept me up to a new level of Ecstasy.ĪPBA was/is wonderful. I never played Stratomatic Baseball, but I latched on to the cards and dice version of APBA Baseball at a pretty tender age and was simply swallowed up by the idea of playing a baseball game based upon my growing understanding of the mathematical probabilities. Many of us lifelong baseball fans started out as gamers. As a young kid, his was/is the pin-ball game that started me on the trail to APBA Baseball.
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