Major League Baseball

The 1955 Williams Major League Baseball is a six-player, electro-mechanical baseball-themed bat game, model number 105. It's notable for including three ramps on the playfield, left as unpainted metal rather than finished, an unusual design touch for a game of this era.

As with other EM baseball games of the period, gameplay emphasizes simple mechanics: players bat the ball to score, with backbox animation adding visual flair to the scoring sequence. Supporting up to six players at once made it a sizable, sociable game for arcades and taverns of the mid-1950s.

Little additional documentation survives about the machine's designer, artist, or production run, but its distinctive unpainted-metal ramps make Major League Baseball a notable and somewhat unusual entry in Williams' run of 1950s sports-themed games.