![]() “Baseball has always been a game for statistics freaks,” said John Cochrane, a veteran APBA player from Virginia. Players compete using a system built on the actual performance of professional players and teams from baseball’s distant or not-so-distant past. Video games have become increasingly sophisticated, and fantasy sports leagues have surged in popularity, but APBA, like its rival Strat-O-Matic, has stuck to the basic format that made it successful. One player was 7, and perhaps the most feared competitor was a teenager with spiky hair. Many of the players were middle-age men hoping to apply their math and managerial skills to something other than work. Not far from this building, 76 people recently converged on a hotel ballroom for the annual APBA tournament. ![]() It is the headquarters of APBA, a company founded in 1951 and known most for making a dice baseball game that has nurtured a persistent following through the years. Amid the rolling hills of Amish country sits a small brick building obscured by shrubbery.
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