But as I said, it was a lot of fun. Among the scores of graying, middle-aged men who would spiritedly debate the merits of the 1927 Yankees vs. the 1975 Reds was a guy from Cockeysville, Roy Langhans, who has attended these annual gatherings for years and was playing with the 1957 Braves (Aaron, Matthews, Spahn). Langhans is actually in the APBA Hall of Fame. ("Mainly because I've bought just about everything they've made since 1957," he joked.)
Actually, it's because Langhans went out of his way at one point to encourage retail stores in the Baltimore-Washington area to carry the game, which is mostly sold by mail order out of Lancaster, Pa.
Langhans' Braves won their division, going 9-1, but in the kind of twist that baseball often provides, it was the only person in the room under the age of 40 who won the APBA World Series.
