View Full Version : Anyone know anything about this 1880s (?) game?
GregMitch34
04-07-2014, 10:57 AM
New one on me. From "Leonard Mfg. Co." Featured cut-outs (from several sheets) of position players on rival teams in blue and red, and umpires, that you'd use in....some way.
Butch7999
04-07-2014, 12:21 PM
A picture would help... we're not seeing one in the initial post...
Leonard Mfg Co produced The Lap Board Games in about 1900, a sumptuously decorated multi-game wooden board,
but we presume that's not what you have. At least, not if the die-cut (or hand-cut) player-figures are original to your game.
Is it likely (or possible) the player-figures belong to another game and just happened to be left with your game?
GregMitch34
04-07-2014, 12:24 PM
Image added:
http://www.net54baseball.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=140289&stc=1&d=1396895083
Butch7999
04-07-2014, 12:31 PM
Thanks Greg -- we've seen those before, just once, and only because Leon has (or had) a strip of those players.
Sorry, we've not yet (meaning since Leon showed his strip) been able to ascertain the source of those guys.
Is that all you have of the game -- the player strip? Where is the Leonard ID located on that,
and are you estimating the 1880s date or is that indicated somewhere?
Image added:
http://www.net54baseball.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=140289&stc=1&d=1396895083
I don't know what they came from other than a game but I have some just like them...(didn't read previous post first :))
GregMitch34
04-07-2014, 12:52 PM
Saw info with this listing and on back of the umpire card...
http://www.ebay.com/itm/5-Cards-from-a-Vintage-Baseball-Base-Ball-Men-Toy-Game-by-Leonard-Mfg-Co-Mich-/231182571887?pt=Vintage_Sports_Memorabilia&hash=item35d38e196f&nma=true&si=CMZmBOy9GvhFKxxnqY%252F6Kc4MDPc%253D&orig_cvip=true&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2557
Saw info with this listing and on back of the umpire card...
http://www.ebay.com/itm/5-Cards-from-a-Vintage-Baseball-Base-Ball-Men-Toy-Game-by-Leonard-Mfg-Co-Mich-/231182571887?pt=Vintage_Sports_Memorabilia&hash=item35d38e196f&nma=true&si=CMZmBOy9GvhFKxxnqY%252F6Kc4MDPc%253D&orig_cvip=true&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2557
I would say that is a good little nugget of info, thanks Greg!!
Butch7999
04-07-2014, 01:41 PM
Fascinating to be sure. In many years of researching game stuff, Leon's example and the eBay offering
are the only traces of this game, or even suggestions of it, that we've ever encountered.
Jeffrompa
04-08-2014, 07:19 AM
I was watching on EBay I saw the Red and Blue and remembered Leon's thread but forgot what was determined on them .
I was watching on EBay I saw the Red and Blue and remembered Leon's thread but forgot what was determined on them .
Happy to add the solution piece, with Leonard ad, to the generic dudes :)
http://luckeycards.com/pwgunc1920sgenericinfield4x.jpg
Jeffrompa
04-21-2014, 05:25 PM
Cool . The umpire is the key .