APBA ad from 1962: “Want To Manage in the Majors?”

“You can Do it in Your Own Home!”, it proudly states.

apba ad

The wording and format in this ad seems somewhat archaic perhaps.  Yet at the same time, I can sense the pride that Dick Seitz had in his product.  So much so that he wanted to go into detail on how to play the game (“you coach the runners” and “you set your infield “deep” or “in”.)

I note that it has the James St. address (before the Millersville Rd location that I’m so familiar).

Thanks to John Heneghan from Naperville, IL for passing on this gem!

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.

4 Comments:

  1. This is exactly the kind of ad that snared me back in the day. I remember ads in the back of Sport Magazine and Street and Smith’s -“You Be The Manager!”

  2. That’s the ad that got me hooked. Got APBA for Christmas in 1961. Played like a maniac in high school instead of studying. After not playing through my college years, which is why I probably got through, started playing again in 1978 and been playing ever since.

  3. Take note of the different spellings of Looie and Luis.

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