We were actually looking for information last week on Bally's 1956 Bingo Doubleheader, and dependably found what we Hi again, Ike, and thanks again for your reply! Hey, just because we hadn't logged in doesn't mean we hadn't looked in. someone in a sort of nexus position between antiques, arcade games and baseball. Still, I can certainly imagine someone out there knowing what the machine was. John Patton or "tiltjlp," but I believe he also passed on some time back. Oh well.īesides the late Russ Jensen, there was at least one guy here who might have been able to help, i.e. Myself, I was fairly interested in baseball history a long time ago, but didn't carry on with it past a certain point. really interesting that you're a prime resource for Cooperstown. "99% indifferent and 1% passionate" might be better.Īnyway. So in the end, maybe 'random shoppers' isn't quite the best way of describing it. There's also the fact that a certain subset of that audience clearly relishes the challenge of solving these kinds of posers, and will spend a surprising amount of time on research, striving to unlock the mystery. Granted, only a portion of them are antiques, but still. Just look through r/whatisthisthing in particular and you'll see item after item going back years that gets identified with uncanny precision. We can't find the coin slot on our computer.Ĭlick to expand.You might think so, but I've been astonished by the power of the hive mind so many times now that I've come to greatly respect the power of 'random shoppers.' We haven't yet tried playing any of the on-line pins here. Was anyone on board here in attendance at Pinball Expo '85, and do they remember any specifics of Bueschel's lecture? Crucially, did Bueschel somewhere at some point write anything in any detail about Miner's landmark innovation? We have the feeling that might be the key to the answer. What we were really hoping was that someone here might have some of Bueschel's books on pinball and pinball history, and find in one of those books more detailed description of what Jensen reported Bueschel discussing. But it's sort of like asking the question of random shoppers at a crowded mall, instead of inquiring of known experts in the specific relevant field. Thanks also for the Reddit links, and indeed maybe we'll give one or more of those a try. The photo seems to be the best look we'll have at the game - unfortunately, it's a rather rough halftone exactly as printed in that edition of the Post. In any case, who's playing the game doesn't really matter in identifying the game - the question was actually posed to us by the Hall of Fame in Cooperstown (we've kind of become their go-to guys for research on baseball-themed games, board games, card games, pinball games, &c'). The caption under the photo is part of the 1933 image, not our typo. That was the WaPo proofreader's or typesetter's mistake back in 1933.
Just for clarity's sake, then - yes, of course it's Earle-with-an-extra-e Combs. Hello, Ike, thanks for your response! Funny thing, our original posts sits here for two whole years without a syllable in reply, then we bump it and it gets replied to in 45 minutes.Īnyway, please don't take anything we say here to indicate we're anything less than greatly appreciative of your suggestions or the time and effort you put into those. Input from any one or more of this forum's many knowledgeable pinball enthusiasts. Many books he wrote about pinball and coin-ops? We'd greatly appreciate any useful MinerĪnd he worked for Bally in the early Thirties."Īnyone here think Miner's Baseball is what's seen in that 1933 WaPo photo above?ĭoes anyone know if Mr Bueschel went into any more detail about this in any of the Dick said that Bally obtained rights to this patentĪnd used its number on many of their early games. It had a glass top and was coin operated. "The 'fifth invention' was a game invented by George Miner of Los Angeles and 'Invented' Seven Times!'" Bueschel enumerated seven landmark innovations in theĮvolution of coin-op games, and had something like this to say (Jensen paraphrases) : "The subject ofĭick's fascinating talk," reported Jensen, "was 'Pinball, A Revolutionary New Idea
Roland Scholz's Visual Pinball website in which Russ Jensen describes a lecture givenīy pinball historian and author Dick Bueschel at Pinball Expo '85. Might generate a helpful response in here. And perhaps we've found at least a clue, a lead, that In the time intervening, we've done some intermittent cursory research, still hoping to find By complete coincidence, we check in on this question exactly two years after we posted it.
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