Help with origins of these baseball dice

[BradH]

I picked up this little box of baseball dice at an antique shop in the 1990s for a couple bucks. There are 12 of them with various baseball plays on each side, and they are a bit smaller than the average dice you would normally play a game with.

I'm assuming the box is original to the dice, but I don't know this for sure. The box is plain brown with a faded stamp that reads "1/2 Ivory" and another small word that is tough to read and has been scratched out ("blanks" maybe?). The box measures 1-5/8" x 2-1/4".

I'm just wondering if anyone knows what game these dice came from? I've always assumed they were 1950s or '60s, but am looking for any tips. Thanks!

[bgar3]

Can’t help with the game, but I think 1/2 refers it inch, and there may be what looks like an inch mark. 1/2 inch for each square would work out to your box dimensions.

[Butch7999]

Hi Brad -- we should recognize those dice, but we can't place 'em. There have been a lot of games that utilized
"special" dice very similar to those, but yours don't match the dice in any of the dozens of "special dice" games
that we have catalogued and that we've checked. We'll keep looking, though.

In the meantime, we'd say bgar's observations are spot on. "Ivory" almost certainly refers to the colour of the dice
and not to their composition.

[bgar3]

I would have posted a link to a great article on dice baseball games written by Butch 7999, but I don’t know how. OP might find it interesting, even though different.

[doug.goodman]

http://baseballgames.dreamhosters.com/BbDiceHome.htm

Is that it?

[Butch7999]

Thanks very much for the referral, lads! Some of the other members here at Net54 were a great help to us
in putting that article together.
We hasten to mention that that article deals mainly with "homebrew" versions of dice baseball using
standard d6 dice. You've given us a spark of an idea, though, to do another article focussing on
commercial games, 1890-present, that employ "special" or "unique" dice... thanks again for that!

[BradH]

Thanks for the feedback.

I LOVE the baseball games website! Great work.

[Butch7999]

Very kind of you to say, Brad -- thanks!
Feel welcome to register and post over there!
We're still keeping an eye out for your dice...