Todd, thanks for the heads-up on this. That example now at Heritage, by the way, is from the collection of Mark Cooper,
who had e-mailed us, just a bit previous to your post, to let us know it was at auction.
To your question -- we had to get up to speed on this with some afternoon research, as we must admit we'd heretofore been
completely unaware of the PX7 domino set. There certainly is a resemblance between the PX7s and the game pieces from
World's Series Parlor Baseball, and of course it's not at all unusual to find stray bits (parts of other games, pencils, paper clips,
grocery lists, dead houseflies) in old boxed boardgames. However, the instructions for World's Series Parlor Baseball (post #4),
as you point out, show game pieces definitely resembling those in the Cooper game at Heritage, and a search of our digital
photo library turned up several examples of the alternate edition of the game, World's Series Base Ball Game, that included
those same Home / Visiting bits.
We'd also mention that several other completely unrelated tabletop baseball games of the era included coin-like playing pieces
of similar size and composition. So we'd agree with you -- rather than unrelated bits being found in the World's Series
Parlor Baseball box, we're sure they were original to game, and instead a few of those game pieces went astray and
have been misidentified as part of the PX7 set. Additionally, if they were part of the PX7 set, why wouldn't they carry
the same Sweet Caporal advertising as every other entry in that set?
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