Flashback Friday: APBA 1964 Great Teams of the Past mailing

One of the benefits of being connected on Facebook’s APBA Baseball group is that you get to meet APBA players that you wouldn’t otherwise.  Last week, during a Facebook thread about Rod Carew’s 1977 APBA card, I got talking to Scott Veatch who lives in Wyoming and has played APBA baseball for years.  We messaged each other for a while that night and had a great conversation online.  By the end of the night, I felt I made a new APBA friend; this game has tendency to do that sometimes.

Turns out Scott is quite organized about his APBA correspondence and has every brochure and mailing he’s received from the Company neatly stored in a filing box (see right).  He graciously agreed to share some scans of a few of his files.  What a treasure! 

For today’s Flashback Friday, I’m sharing an APBA brochure mailing from Scott’s vault that came out in 1964 announcing their “Great Teams of the Past”.  Highlighting the list of teams was the 1937 New York York Yankees and it also included teams such as the Philadelphia A’s of 1931. 

Both All-Time Great teams

There were 25 teams available, 23 major league teams from the past and two All-time Greats teams.  Each team cost a whopping one dollar. 

APBA did their best to pair up some AL/NL champions from the same year.  I count 7 WS matchups.  There were the

• 1934 Cards-Tigers
• 1927 Yankees-Pirates
• 1909 Tigers-Pirates
• 1906 Cubs-White Sox
• 1920 Indians-Dodgers
• 1915 Red Sox-Phillies
• 1911 A’s-Giants. 

The 1911 AL Champion A’s

Speaking of prices, check out the prices of the APBA Baseball game in 1964.  Four dollars for the game boards!  Just one dollar for a sacrifice and hit and run booklet! One quarter would get you two dice shakers.  What a steal!

Interestingly, the most expensive item on the list was the 500 APBA “Fast Tabulation” score sheets for $6.00.  Note old PO Box address for Lancaster location before the Millersville Road days. 

You can view the brochure in its entirety here.  Thanks to Scott Veatch for sharing this piece of APBA history from 1964!