Ralph Anspach’s anti-monopoly game caught the ire of Parker Brothers—and nearly led to the destruction of their ‘Monopoly’ patent. “Let the children once see clearly the gross injustice ...

But the great adventure of Ralph Anspach’s life began in 1971. That was when an after-dinner game of Monopoly and an argument about oil prices turned him into an inventor determined to build a ...

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, an economics professor at San ...

The real story behind the creation of the game might never have come to light if it weren't for the determination of an economics professor and impassioned anti-monopolist named Ralph Anspach.

Ralph Anspach, an 83-year-old economics professor, spent decades locked in a real-life battle with Monopoly and its corporate owners. The campaign dented his finances, sent him on a nationwide ...

Hmmmm. In a 1976 photo, Ralph Anspach displays his game Anti-Monopoly along with homemade, Monopoly-like game boards that predated Parker Brothers’ patent of the game in 1935. “Ruthless” has ...

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 ...

Professor Ralph Anspach, inventor of a game called "Anti-Monopoly" is locked in a legal battle with General Mills over his claim that the company stole the game "Monopoly" from the public.

It was all a lie." The only living person who knew about the game's true history at the time was economics professor Ralph ...

On the Monopoly lawsuit that helped resurface Magie's story In the early 1970s, Ralph Anspach ... was a professor at San Francisco State University. He was living in Berkeley, he had two young ...