![]() ![]() ![]() As teenagers, a buddy and I discovered APBA baseball and immediately became addicts, playing 12 hours straight at times. His dad, now 72, still plays in APBA tourneys, alongside other fathers, sons, daughters, kids and moms. He learned the game from his father, Bob "Pops" Spatz, while growing up in Northbrook. ![]() ![]() Using two dice to get results from 11 to 66, the game injects some randomness into players' statistical probability, and leads to remarkably accurate results, Spatz says. Richard Seitz, who died in 1992, the American Professional Baseball Association game known as APBA (pronounced app-bah) uses actual MLB statistics to create a card filled with numbers for every player. Having recently played in an online tournament based in Florida, Spatz says he didn't want to host an online version of the local tournament because that would sacrifice all the camaraderie and fun that comes from sitting across a table from your opponent and hearing the unmistakable sound of the dice emerging from the familiar shaker tube. Spatz didn't want to wait until July to cancel. APBA players, including some from as far away as California, Cincinnati and Toronto, often make a weekend out of Spatz's tournament, maybe attending a Friday night baseball game at the Schaumburg Boomers Stadium and going out for pizza on Saturday night after the trophy presentation. The first Chicagoland tourney in 2012, before Spatz got involved, drew five players. "Last year, we had 48 players and a waiting list," Spatz says. ![]()
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