Home Run

Home Run, produced by the Chicago Coin Machine Manufacturing Company beginning in February 1937, is a single-player, baseball-themed electro-mechanical pin game from pinball's pre-flipper era. With 3,093 units confirmed produced, it was a solidly successful release for Chicago Coin, one of the industry's long-lived manufacturers, and its model number 30 places it among the company's earlier catalog entries.

As a 1937 machine, Home Run predates flippers, which would not appear until 1947. Games of this period were played by launching balls with a plunger and using careful nudging to guide them into scoring positions, with electro-mechanical circuitry handling scoring. Detailed information about Home Run's specific playfield layout, artwork, and designer has not survived, so the finer points of its baseball presentation remain unknown.

Even so, Home Run offers collectors and enthusiasts a genuine window into the 1930s coin-op boom, when baseball was America's pastime and Chicago's coin machine factories were turning the pin game from a countertop novelty into a national industry.