Batter Up

Batter Up, manufactured by Exhibit Supply Company (ESCO) in June 1935, is a single-player electro-mechanical payout machine from a company that operated in Chicago from 1932 to 1957. It was produced during ESCO's early years in the pinball business, though it was not among the company's first products, as ESCO had already been manufacturing coin-operated games since 1932.

As a payout machine, Batter Up would have rewarded players with coins or tokens based on where the ball landed, a common format for the era before broader anti-gambling regulation curtailed such machines. As with other 1935 EM games, it predates the flipper by more than a decade, so play relied on a plunger-launched ball interacting with a fixed playfield of pins and scoring pockets.

Specific details about Batter Up's artwork, baseball-adjacent theme execution, or scoring layout have not survived in available records. Its rarity and age nonetheless make it of interest to collectors researching ESCO's early payout game lineup.