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Butch & Co.Hi Joe -- Steele's Inside Base Ball by the Burr-Vack Co. is indeed a completely separate game, unrelated to "Inside" Base Ball by Popular Games Co. in any way except that both are from about the same era and both feature coin-like markers.
Steele's actually seems considerably tougher than the Popular Games game -- we've seen only three examples in more than a decade, and we've got two of 'em. Dr. Cooper's is the only one we've seen featuring the marker-coins, and we've never once seen the little parts box for those that must have been present back in 1914 (the patent is 1911, but the probable date of issue is 1914).
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