$450 DLVD
Up for your consideration is an exceptional example of the 1888 baseball themed board game entitled "The Champion Game of Baseball".
The Champion Game of Baseball was published by the Proctor Amusement Company of North Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1889.
The front of this box features a fantastic drawing of a late 19th century baseball batter and catcher on the field of play.
The inside consists of a baseball field printed on the bottom of the box with a metal spinner in the middle, a rules sheet on the back of the top cover, and an envelope with nine blue and nine red cardboard disks.
There is not a lot of strategy in this early game as each team uses the spinner on its turn to bat.
Most of the results are either outs or hits (spaces for single, double, triple and home run), but there also are spaces for strikes, balls and base on balls.
It is therefore possible but unlikely to get three strikes or four balls.
There is one space for a foul ball, and any spinner stopping on a line is considered a foul as well.
The one strategic option open to the batting team is whether to have base runners try to steal. In this event, the stealing team spins again, but uses an outer ring where the results are divided between "out", "safe" or "sacrifice" (where the runner advances but the current batter is out).
An out result always picks off the lead runner.
The condition of this early artifact is fantastic for being 129 years old.
Own a early baseball artifact from a time when baseball was in it's infancy.
