I began with the assumption that there was a one-to-one correspondence between card seasons and board versions, but this assumption proved to be incorrect. Revisions of the boards were frequent during the 1950s no fewer than ten were produced in this decade. In some cases, the vintage was deduced by comparing the play results with those in versions of known vintage. With the help of many individuals in the APBA community, most, if not all, versions of the basic game boards have been tracked down (Table 1). Because no dates were printed on the early boards, complete games were needed to identify their vintage. The first step was to obtain early versions of the boards, or copies of them. Thus began a quest to document all of the revisions in the basic game boards. However, the number of versions that exist, as well as the time of their introduction, was not known.

The APBA playing boards for the basic baseball game have undergone multiple revisions since the original 1951 version. So I asked Dusty if he would be willing to summarize his findings for an article here on The APBA Blog. ‘Dusty’ Welsh who did some extensive research on all the changes the boards went through in APBA’s glorious history and posted his results.

The original post was in 2004 but forum readers are so interested in the topic that they have been discussing the the same topic to this day. I read with interest a post on the APBA forums about the revisions that the APBA baseball boards have gone throughout the years.

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