Lite-League

Lite-League, released by the Amusematic Corporation in February 1946, was that company's very first amusement game — but despite resembling one, it is not actually a pinball machine. It has no pins, no balls, no plunger, no bat, and no tilt mechanism.

Instead, the pitcher, batter, base runners, and outfielders are all represented by lights rather than physical elements. An electric push-button, mounted where a plunger knob would normally sit, launches play. This all-electric approach to simulating baseball made Lite-League a novel amusement device for its time, listed at $425 according to a 1946 Coin Machine Digest ad.

Because it departs so far from traditional coin-op mechanics, little else is documented about Lite-League's design team or its reception. It stands as an unusual, purely electrical experiment in sports-themed amusement from the immediate postwar period.