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2/09/07 - APBA Acquires Baseball for Windows

LANCASTER, PA - 02/09/07 - APBA International, Inc. (APBA Games) of Lancaster, PA announced its acquisition of the Baseball for Windows property along with other related items from Miller Associates, Inc. Baseball for Windows is a popular baseball simulation product originally developed and introduced as a DOS product for IBM compatible personal computers in 1984. The game evolved into its first version of a Windows edition in 1993. Currently the product is up to version 5.5. Baseball for Windows is based on the historic and popular APBA Pro Baseball board game. The simulation with its amazing accuracy and flexibility has garnered a passionate following. Baseball for Windows has been used as reference material for sports writers in predicting World Series outcomes, pre-season predictions and was even given an entire chapter in a book highlighting World Series Game 7's. The game was used to replay the game 7's and its
results were compared to the actual results that had occurred.

APBA's immediate plans for Baseball for Windows include an upgrade by the start of the 2008 baseball season. "APBA has long desired to acquire Baseball for Windows," APBA's President Marc Rinaldi was quoted saying."We're very excited about this acquisition. We plan to use it as a spring board to begin implementing our next generation of games. Besides our board game products we envision a complete electronic sports gaming center driven by quality, intelligent,
accurate and fun online products."

"APBA has a long and durable history of community building," said Kenneth Miller, president
of Miller Associates and with his brother Roswell, the original developers of game. "This
helps assure that the electronic version of this game will reach a second generation of fans,
much like the board game is into its third generation."

APBA began in 1951 with the release of the APBA Pro Baseball board game.The game became wildly popular and helped establish the popularity of sports stat and strategy gaming. For more information on APBA visit their website at www.APBAgames.com or call them at 1-800-334-2722.

 

 
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