Back Play Ball

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  1. By IPDB
    ipdb.corporate_entity_name
    Chicago Coin Machine Manufacturing Company
    ipdb_id
    1814
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    ipdb.notable_features
    10 cents per play. 3 outs ends game. No flippers or bats. Game measures 57 inches long and 24 inches wide. The majority of the playfield art and the apron art is actually attached to the playfield glass.
    ipdb.notes
    Pictured here is a playfield from a game with serial number 19890 that has some differences from later playfields in the area of the middle section where a block of wood on each side of the playfield provides light separation to an array of lamps. Above each block of wood is a larger standard-size light socket surrounded by three lamp holes that are unused and unwired. To the side of each block are two more unwired lamp holes and two additional unwired holes are below each block. White plastic strips are mounted on the playfield to serve as light diffusers for the adjacent bulbs had they been installed. The regular production playfields do not have these fourteen unused holes or the diffusers. These differences would not be noticed when the playfield glass and its artwork are in place. We identify this game 19890 as Early Production. One other difference, however, is not hidden by the playfield glass artwork. On the Early Production lower playfield, the '1st Base' and '3rd Base' are labeled using letters written "vertically". On later playfields, the entire words '1st Base' and '3rd Base' are written "sideways". In this listing are comparison pictures to show this difference.
    player_count
    1
    technology_generation
    electromechanical
    theme
    Sports
    theme
    Baseball
    year
    1951