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IPDB and Flipcommons Catalog contributed to this record.
Conflicts resolved (2 fields)
- theme
- IPDB Baseball IPDB Sports Flipcommons Catalog Sports used Flipcommons Catalog Baseball used
- credit
- IPDB Harry Williams — Design IPDB C. Hale — Design Flipcommons Catalog Harry Williams — Design used Flipcommons Catalog C. Hale — Design used
Sources agree (5 fields)
- technology_generation
- electromechanical IPDB, Flipcommons Catalog
- month
- 7 IPDB, Flipcommons Catalog
- year
- 1934 IPDB, Flipcommons Catalog
- player_count
- 1 IPDB, Flipcommons Catalog
- ipdb_id
- 1525 IPDB, Flipcommons Catalog
Single source (8 fields)
- ipdb.manufacturer_trade_name
- IPDB PAMCO used
- ipdb.corporate_entity_name
- IPDB Pacific Amusement Manufacturing Company used
- ipdb.image_urls
- IPDB ["https://www.ipdb.org/images/1525/image-1.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/1525/image-3.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/1525/image-14.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/1525/image-4.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/1525/image-5.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/1525/image-6.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/1525/image-13.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/1525/image-7.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/1525/image-12.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/1525/image-8.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/1525/image-19.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/1525/image-9.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/1525/image-10.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/1525/image-11.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/1525/image-15.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/1525/image-18.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/1525/image-16.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/1525/image-17.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/1525/image-20.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/1525/image-21.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/1525/image-A3.jpg"] used
- ipdb.notes
- IPDB This first version of 'Major League' had problems with the game not always batting the ball. Games were yanked from location within 30 days after deliveries began. The playfield was subsequently redesigned as PAMCO's 1934 'Major League (Model 40)' and PAMCO's 1934 'Major League (Model 44)' and with new advertising for them clearly pointing out, "A new added feature: a batter automatically up every time." According to Dick Bueschel's Encyclopedia of Pinball Vol 2, a manufacturer announcement for this game in August 1934 indicated its size was 44 inches by 24 inches. However, the manufacturer's October 1934 ad announced the two new versions and stated, "We are continuing the 44� x 22� size." The original designers were in-house designer C. Hale and outside contract designer Harry Williams. Williams had left the company shortly after this game had been started. Race car driver and wingwalker Bon MacDougall was brought in as designer around the time of Williams' departure. MacDougall incorporated all of the drawings and ideas of Hale and Williams with his own to present a patentable submission to the U.S. Patent Office in June 1934 resulting in the two subsequent versions. Inferential reading of Bueschel�s book indicates this game was made at the manufacturer�s Los Angeles location. The upper playfield design most easily differentiates the three versions of Pacific�s Major League if a model number is not evident on the lower apron: � This original model has one hole at the top of the playfield and no chevron hole arrangement below it. � Model 44 has two holes arranged vertically at the top of the playfield. Just below them are five holes in the formation of a shallow chevron. The Batter Up hole has an elevated pair of baseball bats to capture the ball. � Model 40 has one hole, not two, at the top of the playfield, and the chevron is deeper, not shallow. The pair of bats are painted on the playfield. The game example pictured here has had advertising stickers placed all over the playfield, and any bat design at the top may be under a sticker. The playfield is missing its ball rails and some pins. The cabinet measures 44 inches long, 21 3/4 inches wide, and 8 1/2 inches high, not including the trim. The trim extends 1/4 inch all the way around the cabinet. One of the designers of this game, C. Hale, was reported in the October 1935 issue of Automatic Age, page 105, as a new employee of California Exhibit Company working as an Associate Engineer in their Research Department. In that article, he was described as previously having been an "associate developer" of this 1934 game and of Allied Amusement's 1935 'Barrel Roll'. used
- corporate_entity
- Flipcommons Catalog pacific-amusement-manufacturing-company used
- title
- Flipcommons Catalog major-league used
- name
- Flipcommons Catalog Major League used
- slug
- Flipcommons Catalog major-league used