Baseball Pitch

The Baseball Pitch, manufactured by Exhibit Supply Company (ESCO) of Chicago in August 1957, is a late-era release from one of pinball's longtime manufacturers. ESCO had been producing coin-operated amusements since 1932, and by the time Baseball Pitch appeared the company was well established rather than a newcomer experimenting with early electro-mechanical technology.

As a single-player bat game, Baseball Pitch put players in the batter's box, testing timing and coordination against a pitched ball rather than relying on the flipper-and-lane layouts used on many contemporary pinball machines. This kind of dedicated baseball/bat mechanism was a long-running and popular subgenre in coin-operated amusements throughout the mid-20th century.

Specific details about Baseball Pitch's designer, artwork, or production numbers are not well documented. Little else is known about this particular machine beyond its basic specifications, leaving it a quiet but interesting entry in ESCO's catalog for collectors and historians to research further.