The company (short for American Professional Baseball Association) was located near Lancaster, Pa., before moving its headquarters to Alpharetta, Ga., and still sells the game (in other sports, too) and provides an updated set of players cards for every season. You might think the sound of the rolls would get annoying, but Dad has played it so much it’s like white noise to anyone else in the house. He hasn’t stopped now that he’s still (impressively) fending off gray hair.Īs he’s searched for ways to pass the time while under a stay-at-home order, he’s been playing it even more. Dad, however, grew up on APBA (pronounced APP-buh). Then thump, out the dice fall onto his APBA baseball board for him to translate into an out, hit or home run.Įver since he was a kid, my dad, now 71, has owned the APBA game - which is similar to another popular dice game, Strat-O-Matic.
This is where my dad, Chet, will post up and occupy half the table for a couple hours at a time - and send the sound of several rapid rattles of a dice shaker bouncing off the walls of the downstairs. In my parents’ home in West Pittston, Pa., a small town about 10 miles from Scranton, the dining room is in the middle of the first floor.
