

Starting in 1970: Dick Silar, a retired York Tech athletic director, started the local APBA league in 1970, the year the Baltimore Orioles beat the Cincinnati Reds in the World Series. The 49th season of the APBA Paul Goodnote Baseball League (named after a former member) is underway.

They can hear an occasional cheer or sigh of exasperation erupt from one of the tables. One rolls a pair of dice, moves his runners from base to base on the makeshift infield and keeps score of every play, while the other looks on, waiting for his turn.įour other men sit on bar stools, or a couch, and watch a baseball game on television, ready to play once a table becomes available. A miniature, wooden replica of a major league baseball stadium sits on each of three tables in Dick Silar's recreation room.
