Tin Litho baseball game 1911

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Posted By: 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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[cincicards]

Anybody have a complete list of player discs from this game I have the following fifteen and there are twenty two that go with the game?

Barry
Bescher
Burns
Bush
Fletcher
Marquard
Mathewson
Merkle
Meyers
Murphy
Oldring
Plank
Snodgrass
Stock
Strunk

[Butch7999]

Hi Randall -- we can verify that Baker, Collins, Doyle, and Schang are missing from your 1914 set. Just a surmise as to the others, but presumably they would have been Bender, McInnis, and Tesreau.

[Hal Kaplan]

Here's a link to the patent, which tells how to play the game:

http://www.google.com/patents?id=qJl...ad=0_1#PPA1,M1