After Ralph Anspach created an anti-monopoly game, he ended up in the middle of a controversial patent case with Parker Brothers over the history of ‘Monopoly’ itself.

Anspach discovered that the game was invented in 1904 by Lizzie Magie, ... "I was able to do an interview with Ralph about 19 years ago. I'm incredibly grateful it happened.

He was always something of a swashbuckler by his own account, a teenage refugee from Hitler’s Germany who fought for America in the Pacific, then surreptitiously shipped out to Israel for its… ...

Ralph Anspach wasn't going to stop making his Anti-Monopoly game just because Parker Brothers told him to. At least not without a fight. It was 1974 and Anspach, ...

Ralph Anspach’s lonely crusade would take him to the brink of bankruptcy and all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court, where he would finally be vindicated.

The game manufacturer then made a deal with her, which Ralph Anspach later called a "cover-up." according to Pilon: Parker ...

Monopoly had a monopoly on Monopoly — until Ralph Anspach’s case went all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court, which ruled in favor of Anspach.

Anspach archives/Courtesy of Bloomsbury In his lawsuit, Ralph Anspach used early, pre-Parker Bros. boards as evidence of Monopoly's controversial origins. Anspach archives/Courtesy of Bloomsbury ...

At the heart of Pilon’s book is an idealistic economics professor named Ralph Anspach who refused to buckle — or settle — when Parker Bros. claimed that Anti-Monopoly, a game he invented in ...

And so it remained until the 1970s, when an economics professor named Ralph Anspach tried to market a game called Anti-Monopoly. Parker Brothers sued, ...