Notice the Baseball Magazine ad for a competitor "The National Game Makers" and their indoor baseball game. Much less expensive than the Van Beek game. I wonder how this other company influenced the demise of the National Pastime game? Has anyone ever seen this other game?
I'd seen that Baseball Magazine ad before, but never in a form I could magnify. It appears that the fanned cards with drawn-in names are intended to be the lineups for the two World Series teams: you have Bishop, Dykes, Cochrane and Simmons leading off for the A's, and Douthit, Adams, Frisch and Bottomley for the Cards. But I'm wondering if the original is clearer than your scan: Douthit comes out looking more like "Postin" here, and Simmons (apparently S-I and the first line of the M) looks like SO. Is your original clear enough to see?
Dumb of me -- I was magnifying the page instead of the ad. Simmons does appear to be S-I-M, and with more of the M showing than I thought. Douthit has a dust spot or something in the middle of the U, which is why I thought it was an S. Is that the way it was printed or an artifact of the scan?
Notice the Baseball Magazine ad for a competitor "The National Game Makers" and their indoor baseball game. Much less expensive than the Van Beek game. I wonder how this other company influenced the demise of the National Pastime game? Has anyone ever seen this other game?
I'd seen that Baseball Magazine ad before, but never in a form I could magnify. It appears that the fanned cards with drawn-in names are intended to be the lineups for the two World Series teams: you have Bishop, Dykes, Cochrane and Simmons leading off for the A's, and Douthit, Adams, Frisch and Bottomley for the Cards. But I'm wondering if the original is clearer than your scan: Douthit comes out looking more like "Postin" here, and Simmons (apparently S-I and the first line of the M) looks like SO. Is your original clear enough to see?
Dumb of me -- I was magnifying the page instead of the ad. Simmons does appear to be S-I-M, and with more of the M showing than I thought. Douthit has a dust spot or something in the middle of the U, which is why I thought it was an S. Is that the way it was printed or an artifact of the scan?
Great detective work!