Hi-FLY Baseball

The Hi-Fly Baseball, manufactured by Genco in May 1956, is an electro-mechanical baseball-themed pinball machine, part of a sports-game tradition that had been part of pinball since at least the 1930s. It was produced during a period when baseball-themed 'bat games' remained a popular and enduring pinball category.

The Hi-Fly Baseball features an elevator mechanism that serves the ball to the player by lifting it from below the playfield and dropping it over the bat, creating a distinctive pitch-and-swing experience. The game is adjustable for one, two, or three innings, with three outs per inning, and can display a maximum score of 999 points per player.

The Hi-Fly Baseball's design and art reflect the mid-1950s aesthetic, with clean lines and baseball-inspired graphics typical of Genco's sports-themed machines of the era. Little additional information survives about the specific production run of this machine, but its baseball theme and elevator ball-serve mechanism make it a distinctive entry among EM bat games.