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Butch & Co.Look familiar?
First pic, obviously, is the box; second and third are the gameboard / playing field, one better showing the three-tier yellow plastic bleachers, the other better showing the flippy trap-door at home and the BB-sized balls. Looks like there are some differences in the playing field graphics, so these are almost certainly editions from different years, maybe '73 and '74.
The game measures about 16 1/2 inches square, so Richard's friend's recollection of the size of the game, assuming this is indeed it, is considerably exaggerated -- no surprise. Everything, when we were kids, was bigger than it really was.
We should've guessed this game more quickly. It's not rare on the second-hand market, and has averaged around $25. on eBay over the last five years or so. Epoch, by the way, is a Japanese company which is still busy producing some high-end baseball action games.
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