{"id":205,"date":"2008-07-20T18:10:15","date_gmt":"2008-07-21T01:10:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mfooz.com\/bblog\/?p=205"},"modified":"2008-07-20T18:29:50","modified_gmt":"2008-07-21T01:29:50","slug":"ads-from-1973-1974","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mfooz.com\/bblog\/?p=205","title":{"rendered":"Ads from 1973-1974"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I recently acquired some old baseball mags from the time I started following the game. The 1974 Street &#038; Smith&#8217;s yearbook was a particularly important specimen, as it was there I first saw anything about tabletop baseball. The APBA ad must have grabbed my imagination more than the others, because I sent away for their free brochure and sample cards, and soon afterwards ordered the game.<\/p>\n<p>Looking back from 2008, I&#8217;m surprised at how many games were advertising. Who runs print ads nowadays?<\/p>\n<p>My favorite bit is in the APBA ad from another energy crunch 35 years ago:<br \/>\n<center><img src='http:\/\/www.mfooz.com\/bblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/save_gas.png'><\/center><\/p>\n<p><b>Street &#038; Smith&#8217;s 1974 Yearbook:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href='http:\/\/www.mfooz.com\/bblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/apba74.png'>APBA<\/a>\n<li><a href='http:\/\/www.mfooz.com\/bblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/som74.png'>Strat-O-Matic<\/a>\n<li><a href='http:\/\/www.mfooz.com\/bblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/statispro74.png'>Statis-Pro<\/a>\n<li><a href='http:\/\/www.mfooz.com\/bblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sherco74.png'>Sher-Co<\/a>\n<li><a href='http:\/\/www.mfooz.com\/bblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/si73.png'>Pennant Race! &#038; All-Time Great Baseball<\/a>\n<li><a href='http:\/\/www.mfooz.com\/bblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/negamco74.png'>Negamco<\/a>\n<li><a href='http:\/\/www.mfooz.com\/bblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/extra_innings_74.png'>Extra Innings<\/a>\n<li><a href='http:\/\/www.mfooz.com\/bblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/blm74.png'>Big League Manager<\/a>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>June 1973 Baseball Digest:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href='http:\/\/www.mfooz.com\/bblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/apba73.png'>APBA<\/a>\n<li><a href='http:\/\/www.mfooz.com\/bblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/som73.png'>Strat-O-Matic<\/a>\n<li><a href='http:\/\/www.mfooz.com\/bblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/programiv73.png'>Program IV<\/a>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently acquired some old baseball mags from the time I started following the game. The 1974 Street &#038; Smith&#8217;s yearbook was a particularly important specimen, as it was there I first saw anything about tabletop baseball. The APBA ad must have grabbed my imagination more than the others, because I sent away for their &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mfooz.com\/bblog\/?p=205\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Ads from 1973-1974<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-strat-o-matic","category-tabletop-baseball"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mfooz.com\/bblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mfooz.com\/bblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mfooz.com\/bblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mfooz.com\/bblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mfooz.com\/bblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mfooz.com\/bblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mfooz.com\/bblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mfooz.com\/bblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mfooz.com\/bblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}