7/23/07 - APBA announces new voice for Baseball for Windows

LANCASTER, PA - 07/23/07 - APBA International, Inc. (APBA Games) of Lancaster, PA announced that Pete Van Wieren has agreed to become the new voice for APBA's Baseball for Windows software game. Mr. Van Wieren is a respected member of the Atlanta Braves, of
Major League Baseball, broadcast team. Mr. Van Wieren has been broadcasting for the Braves for over 30 years.

"We're very excited about the opportunity to work with Mr. Van Wieren." said APBA President Marc Rinaldi. "We're looking forward to continuing the excellence of the earlier versions of the product.

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 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