Hi, new guys here, wondering if we could get some help identifying the mysterious antique
baseball-themed arcade game shown somewhere below in this post. The game was pictured
in a 1933 edition of the Washington Post. The attached image includes the Post's caption
exactly as it was printed. Like a blurry photo of Bigfoot, this is the only evidence we have
of its existence.

As you can (barely) see, the game, like many early electromags (we're only assuming it qualifies
as such) and pre-War pinball or arcade action games, like World's Series by Rockola or Major League
by Pamco, &c', there's no backglass -- although there is that scoreboard apparatus mounted on top,
as well as what appears to be a lefthand launch device, possibly a righthand coin slot, and what looks
to be some sort of control lever for a second (opposing) player, operated here by Byrd.

We'll admit up front that we're complete novices at the history of coin-ops and early pinball,
but we've recently done a lot of reading of the works of late pinball historian Dick Bueschel,
which has given us some tantalizing clues as to the possible identity of the game and of its
manufacturer. We don't want to lead anyone down the wrong path with our own guesswork
-- we may be barking up entirely the wrong tree -- but we started a lengthy discussion of it
over at Pinball Nirvana
https://pinballnirvana.com/forums/index.php?threads/help-iding-antique-baseball-arcade-game.13951/
(which referred us to this amazing forum), and you can see where we've gotten to at the link
above.

Any insights on the game would be greatly appreciated. Please feel free to tell us our very
tentative guesswork so far (in the thread at Pinball Nirvana) is complete rubbish, although
we'd be happier to hear some more enlightened and knowledgeable suggestions about the
game's identity and maker.

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Hi Alex and way2wyrd, we appreciate your having done some looking for us!
This is indeed a tough one, we grant ya!
We managed to get ahold of a couple of Dick Bueschel's books, which afforded us
a guess as to just what game this is and who made it -- but without a corroborating
photo, or at least a more detailed physical description, we're not sure he wasn't
discussing an entirely different game.
The semantics of the 1933 WaPo caption are intriguing, but we're leery of giving them
too much weight -- the reporter/photographer/editor may not have been perfectly
conversant with coin-ops/pinballs and the terminology they used in the caption may
therefore be less than accurate...
Research (and requests for assistance) continues...

Hi way2wyrd, we're 99% sure that was in the July 29 edition of the paper.
Thanks for asking!