The 3rd periodic 340 Club Reunion has been postponed indefinitely

Before there was an Animal House there was a 340 Club; before there was a Dean Wormer there was a Harold "the fuck" Martin; before there was John Blutarsky or a Daniel Simpson Day there was Tim Lutter, Sil Simpson, Dan Joyce, Tim Getzloff, Dick Lichty, Jim Shay, Phil Zangari, Chris Joyce, Dave Petkosh, Mitch Herr, Kenny Giltner, Dean Staherski, Randy Brown, John Emswiler, Sue Krimmell Emswiler and myself; before there were any Delta Tau Chi pledge pins, there were 340 Club cards; before Otis Day & the Knights, the 340 Jukebox; before there were Delta Brothers there were the usual gang of idiots that congregated at 328, 340 (twice) and 338 West King Street in Lancaster, Pennsylvania for a decade beginning in August 1974. This blog is dedicated to those idiots and those times. God bless Kenny, Mitch and Chris; may they rest in peace.

















virtual 340 Club members

Sunday, January 20, 2008

APBAcon II

Another significant event of 1975 that I have overlooked was the second APBA Convention held in June at New York City’s Commodore Hotel. Due to the abundance of Rupert’s, Ballentine, Knickerbocker in the Big Apple I cannot recall too much of the conference nor do I know who attended from Lancaster and/or the 340. I do recall that Phil, Sil and I attended the inaugural conference in Philadelphia at the Bellevue Stratford in 1973. I know Phil & I attended in ’75 but I’m not sure if Sil did. Over 400 APBA enthusiasts attended this conference.

The highlight of the conference was the attendance of a certain Clifford Van Beek who invented the game – National Pastime – that a young Dick Seitz played in 1932 upon which during and after WWII Mr. Seitz based his “invention” of the APBA Major League Baseball Game.

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