This Washington Post review of David Eisenhower’s new book, Going Home to Glory: A Memoir of Life With Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1961 to 1969, mentions the well-known fact that David was a big APBA Baseball fan in his younger days.
Eisenhower, a bookish 62-year-old with a soft, round face and a welcoming manner, bonded over baseball with both his future wife and his father-in-law. He played APBA, a dice-driven board game, with her when they were courting; he compiled lists of the greatest players at each position with the former president. Games delight and distract in glory times and in moments of crisis.
Wow, he got Julie Nixon to play APBA with him?? My wife tried that ONCE and that was the end of that.
David Eisenhower’s book brings back memories of the 1973 APBA convention in Philadelphia. We were in the hotel elevator when David purchased a 1967 set from a friend of mine. That was a terrific gathering of the managers from John Brodak’s Atlantic-Pacific Baseball Assn. (APBA)