Bat-A-Score

Bat-A-Score, manufactured by H.C. Evans & Company and delivered starting in early 1948, is a distinctive electro-mechanical (EM) baseball-themed pinball machine that debuted at the 1948 Coin Machine Institute Show in January of that year, with deliveries beginning in March.

A key aspect of gameplay revolves around its unique pitching mechanism: the ball is pitched through the air, and the player bats it airborne into the bleachers for scoring, for 10 balls per five cents played. This adds an element of physicality and timing not found in more conventional pinball layouts of the time.

Specific information about Bat-A-Score's designer or artwork has not surfaced, but as a bat game from the late 1940s, it represents part of a well-established lineage of baseball-themed EM machines, merging sports themes with pinball-adjacent gameplay for the arcade and tavern trade.