Tudor games baseball

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The sheer variety of playing methods over the years and among the multitude of games produced is astonishing. Game mechanics range from the childishly simple to the dauntingly complex, from the elegant and ingenious to the occasionally inane, and from generic games of chance to more modern, more scientific simulations that yield highly realistic re-creations of actual individual player performance.

No examples are known to exist of the first two tabletop baseball games patented -- William Buckley's Game Board of and Francis Sebring's Parlor Base-Ball of -- both designed as wood-and-metal constructs that attempted to emulate in miniature the actual action of baseball.

In Buckley's game, a marble-sized ball is rolled by the mechanical "pitcher" toward a spring-activated bat that would drive the ball into the field of play. Sebring's worked similarly, with a penny slid from pitcher to batter and struck into play. Buckley's game probably never went into production, but Sebring's was advertised in both Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper and Wilkes' Spirit of the Times -- popular periodicals of the day -- as early as the autumn of With any number of further mechanical, magnetic, and electrical variations by dozens of different manufacturers through the years, this subgenre of "action" games has continued right into the 21st century.

Featuring a lovely steel engraving of a baseball game in progress on its gameboard and employing a small sectioned spinner to determine the results, as few as three examples of the game are extant. Manufacturers and publishers turned out more than fifty different tabletop versions of America's new national pastime in just the 19th century alone, introducing almost every variety of game mechanic short of computers.

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