1989 Cadaco Ellis
This is one of those issues I used to see in the big price guides and had no idea what it was. Then I happened across a copy of the Cadaco Ellis All-Star Baseball game in a Walden Books in the mall (yes, this was years ago). Sadly, I was an extremely brainwashed mainstream soul in those days, so concept of playing a board game that wasn't produced by Parker Brothers or Milton Bradley was somehow foreign to me and I didn't give this game a second thought. For most of the years the game was produced, these were just blank discs with players names on them and no pictures like this one:
But by 1989, everyone was getting a license from MLBPA, so Cadaco Ellis added player photos to the discs, courtesy of Mike Schechter & Associates. Here is a
good website that explains the game, and apparently still creates new discs for players, even though the actual game is no longer produced. I imagine it has a following similar to the various statistics based games like APBA.