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 ...

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.

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.

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 ...

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 ...

PILON: In the early 1970s, Ralph Anspach is an economics professor at San Francisco State University. Ralph is an impassioned anti-monopolist. He thinks that monopolies are at the root of all that ...

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 ...

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, and the resulting lawsuit became a years-long ...

It was all a lie." The only living person who knew about the game's true history at the time was economics professor Ralph Anspach, who invented the game "Anti-Monopoly." Anspach was embroiled in ...