The Heart of America Baseball league was formed in Kansas City in the late 1980's. Six managers drafted teams to play an 81 game season over the course of 7 summer months. Over the winter a one day draft allowed you to improve your team by drafting from still available MLB player pool or college prospects. After season one we notice how frayed and rag torn our
APBA cards had become by so much handling. The six managers shared the cost of buying a full set of trading cards, dry mounting them back to back to the APBA card and laminating each card. We chose Score because every card was an action photo
Sure wish I still had that 1957 set handed down to me by my brother, I probably started playing with it when I was about 10 yo and couldn’t figure out why I had not ever heard of such a great player as Hurricane Hazle. I later added sets from ‘67 and ‘68 and spent countless hours replaying and keeping the stats for those seasons of my Detroit Tigers.
Thanks for the rundown. Although there are a lot of tabletop baseball games for sale, there's something to APBA and SOM that still stands above the rest for me. There are some great anecdotes and stories that revolve around those two. It sounds corny, but they feel more like an old trust hoodie, than simply cards and dice.
The Heart of America Baseball league was formed in Kansas City in the late 1980's. Six managers drafted teams to play an 81 game season over the course of 7 summer months. Over the winter a one day draft allowed you to improve your team by drafting from still available MLB player pool or college prospects. After season one we notice how frayed and rag torn our
APBA cards had become by so much handling. The six managers shared the cost of buying a full set of trading cards, dry mounting them back to back to the APBA card and laminating each card. We chose Score because every card was an action photo
Sure wish I still had that 1957 set handed down to me by my brother, I probably started playing with it when I was about 10 yo and couldn’t figure out why I had not ever heard of such a great player as Hurricane Hazle. I later added sets from ‘67 and ‘68 and spent countless hours replaying and keeping the stats for those seasons of my Detroit Tigers.
Thanks for the rundown. Although there are a lot of tabletop baseball games for sale, there's something to APBA and SOM that still stands above the rest for me. There are some great anecdotes and stories that revolve around those two. It sounds corny, but they feel more like an old trust hoodie, than simply cards and dice.