- abbreviation
- WS44
- ipdb.corporate_entity_name
- Victory Games
- ipdb_id
- 3852
- ipdb.image_urls
- ["https://www.ipdb.org/images/3852/image-1.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/3852/image-2.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/3852/image-3.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/3852/image-4.jpg"]
- ipdb.notes
- 'World Series' was a conversion of Genco's 1941 'Seven Up'.
This 1944 conversion kit followed Victory Games' 1943 'World Series 1943', a game which had the year 1943 on its backglass. However, from all available printed information, this 1944 version did not have the year on the backglass. The glass pictured in this listing fits that assessment. The manufacturer stopped advertising the dated name "World Series �43" in Billboard beginning with their ad of 11/27/1943 p114 where, from this point forward, the game was listed among their other games as just 'World Series'. However, because the 1943 version was first advertised in Billboard on 10/31/1943 p61, it seems unlikely that Victory Games would remove or change the year on the glass as soon as November, after only one month�s time. The context of their ads during the next several months does not make a strong case for a 1944 version until the ad of 04/15/1944 p74 where 'World Series' takes the headlined position in the ad with the words "Operators � Here It Is � World Series". Based on that ad, and until we have more information, we show the date for this listing as April, 1944. The last Billboard ad for this kit was 02/10/1945 p74.
- month
- 4
- player_count
- 1
- technology_generation
- electromechanical
- theme
- Sports
- theme
- Baseball
- year
- 1944