Major League Baseball

The Major League Baseball pinball machine from Western Products, Incorporated was manufactured in 1940, though a 1942 trade ad described it as a 1941 release — most contemporary references, however, place it in 1940. It is a single-player, electro-mechanical bat-and-ball game, part of Western Products' short run of sports-themed amusements before the company's factory closed in 1941.

Specific gameplay mechanics and design details for Major League Baseball are not well documented, so its exact features can't be described with confidence.

Notably, company founder Jimmy Johnson later licensed his patents to Bally, whose 1947 'Big Inning' was based on this design lineage. That connection cements Major League Baseball's place as an early entry in the sports-pinball genre, even though many specifics of the original machine remain unknown.