Satirical piece on dice baseball

This satirical piece on The Sportsman’s Daily about a boy finding a dice baseball game in his dad’s attic is a somewhat funny in a bittersweet way for us APBA fans. 

 

“It was kind of cute for a while,” said Jose. “It brought back some terrific memories like trading Jimmy “Toy Cannon” Wynn over to Buddy Muldoon’s team for Lee May, Joe Rudi and a pitcher to be named later. It was nice seeing the old double fours being rolled for a homer again, but now Pedro’s got his friends here all damn day long. I hear the comments. ‘Pedro, your father was around when Vic Davalillo was playing? Wow, he’s old.’  The little f—-rs. I’ll show them who’s old.”

 

Funny or no? 

Thomas Nelshoppen

I am an IT consultant by day and an APBA media mogul by night. My passions are baseball (specifically Illini baseball), photography and of course, APBA. I have been fortunate to be part of the basic game Illowa APBA League since 1980 as well as a frequent participant of the Chicagoland APBA Tournament. I am slogging through a 1966 NL replay and hope to finish before I die.

7 Comments:

  1. That’s good! Does anyone remember an article in SPORT magazine in the 70’s called “Cutthroat Baseball”? It was a great story about some guys drinking beer and playing APBA. I was a kid when it was published and I have searched (unsuccessfully) for it on line. Does anyone here on the Blog have that issue?

  2. Man that’s it! I would like to find a copy or at least a photocopy of that article. Have you ever read it, Zealot?

  3. I couldn’t find a buyer listed.. maybe someone over on the forum would know where to find it?….

  4. I actually HAVE that article, taken from that issue. It’s a great, irreverent read by Roger Director, even though the two major characters love the 2 teams I absolutely loathed when this artiicle came out (Yankees and Reds). I pull it from its manila envelope and re-read it every couple of years, kind of like my copy of Universal Baseball Association, J. Henry Waugh, Proprietor by Robert Coover.

  5. I read that article years ago and I’ve been looking for it ever since…which explains how I happened upon this page.

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