Baseball

The Baseball pinball machine, produced by Victory Games in July 1945, is a flipperless electro-mechanical (EM) conversion kit built around a sports theme. It is a conversion of Genco's 1941 'Sluggers', and the same kit was also used to convert a different game, also released as Victory Games' 1945 'Baseball'.

Notable for its use of 19 passive bumpers, which rely on gravity and mechanical placement rather than electromagnets, Baseball's gameplay is characterized by natural ball movement typical of flipperless designs of the era. Players would need to rely on the machine's layout and their shooting skill rather than flipper control to maximize scoring opportunities.

Victory Games operated only from 1942 to 1947, and this conversion kit is one of several sports and non-sports titles the company released during that short window. While the specific designer and artwork details remain undocumented, Baseball stands as an example of the wartime-era conversion kit business that let operators refresh existing machines with new themes cheaply.