Big Inning (New York Model)

Big Inning (New York Model), manufactured by Williams Electronic Manufacturing Corporation in March 1963, is a single-player electro-mechanical novelty baseball game. Williams documentation refers to this version specifically as the 'New York Model'; a related 'Chicago Model' was also released the same year.

Rather than using flippers, Big Inning is a 'Bat Game' operated with knobs on the cabinet front, one to pitch and one to swing the bat, in the tradition of earlier baseball novelty pinballs. Seven hanging targets serve as the primary scoring elements, and the game includes mechanical backbox animation that brings the baseball theme to life as runners move around the bases.

The machine's design and artwork lean into its baseball theme, consistent with other novelty bat games of the early 1960s, though specific details about its designer or artist were not available in the source records.