Ralph Anspach

Ralph Anspach (15 March 1926 – March 2022) was an American economics professor and games creator from San Francisco State University. Anspach was a graduate of the University of Chicago and fought with the Mahal in 1948 in support of the independence of Israel. He is best known for creating the game Anti-Monopoly and the legal battles that followed.

Life Ralph Anspach was born on 15 March 1926 in Danzig, where he grew up and belonged to several Zionist youth groups. In 1938, he escaped Germany for the US. In 1940, Anspach lived on West 94th Street, New York, New York, with his father, mother, and brother. Anspach enlisted in the US Army, serving from 1945 to 1946 in an artillery observation unit based in the Philippines. In a 1983 US Supreme Court case, Anspach won the "Anti-Monopoly" trademark rights from Parker Brothers. He then wrote The Billion Dollar Monopoly Swindle, a book about the true history of Monopoly and his legal fight over the game.

Anspach died in March 2022, at the age of 96.

Works Games Anti-Monopoly Original-opoly Books The Billion Dollar Monopoly Swindle