I always wonder, didn't anyone ever tell him how to pronounce it? He talks to APBA Hall of Famers every day. It doesn't seem like a fight worth having any longer. However, as some have noted, when I heard John Herson pronounce it the first time (2012).
So, from then on, I was very distinctive. The first time I called APBA (which was in the 1990s) I was fascinated by hearing Fritz (after hours answering machine) pronounce APP-BAAH, so distinctively. He looked at it and said, "who cares?" Oh. I showed him, "never, no never, call it A-P-B-A". I told him he should not call it that, and I would bring in the paper where the company said so. In junior high (1978, I would guess, after I bought my first game and set), a friend also played, but he called it A-P-B-A. This was 1972-1977, when my brother moved out of the house. in fact, I think we both put an "M" sound in there somewhere over time (or maybe just me). In Covina, California (a long way from Lancaster, PA), my brother taught the game to me as AP-PAH. It seems, in general, that the farther west you go from Lancaster the more apt a player is to call it A-P-B-A (because, I think, the more likely it is that they never heard anyone pronounce it, they just read it on the box).
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