Great lineup! I have a Chicago Coin Big League. It seems to be hard to find pitch n bats...they don't seem to come up for sale too often.

--Luke

Williams Double Play is my hands down favorite. It can be a bear to get the cups aligned right so the double plays are turned, but once it is done it is great!

Nice games! Williams 1962 World Series is a top rated pitch and bat. I have a nice one I'm willing to sell. Its not listed for sale. I live in the dc area.

The world series game has new features the 4 bagger didn't have. Plus it is a very good looking game. Not saying anything negative about 4 bagger. It's a classic to own.

That 4 bagger looks amazing! Built like a tank!

I love my 4 Bagger so much I actually upgraded my first one when I found a nicer example. It's got a lot of charm and is always fun for a game or two.

A couple other great P&Bs off the top of my head.
Williams Pinch Hitter
Williams Short Stop
United Star Slugger
Official Baseball

I was looking for a 4-bagger when I was offered the 1962 World Series from another collector. Glad I didn't pass on it. Great game.

Ramps (3). The ramps are red in color.

Scoring a Super Home Run in backbox adds 1 extra inning to the game and awards 3 or 5 replays (operator option). Beating the previous high score awards 5 replays (operator enabled). The high score feature resets to 20 runs when a certain high score level is hit (operator adjustable). A Grand Slam Home Run adds 1 letter to the name WORLD SERIES on the backglass. This is a carry-over feature from game to game and awards 5 replays upon completion (operator enabled).

The match feature is operator adjustable for either of these two modes:

Mystery Match - this is the traditional operation where a random match number lights up at the end of the game, awarding a replay if it matches the last digit of the score.

Skill Match - the match number is illuminated throughout game play, changing constantly as the 0-9 unit advances. This changing number gives no award during play, but its visibility allows the player an additional strategy if the game play is on the last inning with 2 outs. Then, once the changing match number agrees with the last digit of the score, the player can purposely try to score the 3rd out to end the game in order to win the match award. However, the player might not want to end the game in this way if the scores are close to winning replays for runs or for beating high score.

I never had a pitch and bat before and remember playing them as a kid. I got this Chicago Coin Yankee as a write off, but with a little imagination and lots of time, effort and a few hundred bucks for materials it's reborn. Changing a game this much doesn't seem legal but I really like the final look.

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Good job...looks great! I think you did a great job of bringing that poor old game back to life and still keeping the spirit of the original machine.

--Luke

Thanks Luke, The decision for the full restore was really made by my wife, when we brought the old Yankeee down to my workroom the smell of moldy wood was pretty strong, so the message from the boss was that unless I could get rid of the smell, outside it goes. That comment replaced all of the back box and the front and rear ends of the cabinet. This particular game has all of the heavy motors and equipment on the large door and a single panel mounted in the backbox, i learned quickly it took two people to remove and re-install. The The backbox and cabinet end's are made of 3/4 inch oak veneer plywood and is much lighter that the original pressboard. I used contact dement to attach oak veneer to the sides of the cabinet. Before that I made a stensils of the original artwork and transfered the awesome original designs to the new box using two colours of wood stain applied with q-tips. Then I sealed all the new oak trim and boxes with shellac. Luckily the playfield was stored with a piece of old cloudy plastic which saved the cabinet interior form complete ruin, and the coin door was completely rusted so i dropped them both from the new design and installed a new sheet of 10mm tempered glass on the full lenght of the playfield cabinet top surface and mounted the control panel on the end of the cabinet. The little door (for latch access) is a old post office mailbox door. It was alot of fun and very interesting figuring all this out. My one disppointment is i can't get it to do a proper reset. It's like it resets too fast and and then not enough...I'm kinda stuck trying to figgure it out.

Got to love the pitch and bats. These officials make number 2 and 3. They seem to find me. The Star Slugger was delivered to the Silver Ball museum in Florida last month. I will miss that one for sure. You really need the room for these.

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I have fond memories of Pennant Fever. Still remember the sounds it makes and that metal swing disk. I eventually want to get one.

The '48 Evan's Bat a Score has to be one of the best early pitch and bats. It's actually 'throwing' balls to the batter! Don't know of any other p@b to do that. The Scientific's are really cool too. Not big space eaters, either. I ended up with a beast though, a Star Slugger . A light restoration underway but really looking forward to putting it the pin room. It's yuugge.

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Those are beauty games, thanks for the pitchers (haha). Wood legs and the flyer says 6 and half feet long, that's a lot of machine. I am constantly amazed at the variety and workmanship in these old games. Where do you find these old treasures?

Putting the original stencil design on the new oak veneer with stain was a really cool idea and turned out great!

--Luke

Those are some beautiful games.

--Luke