Baseball

The 1950 Baseball is an electro-mechanical shuffle alley from Nation Wide Novelties, Inc. of Chicago — not a pinball machine, despite a backbox design that can be mistaken for a bat game at first glance. It is a notable early example of baseball-themed coin-op amusement, reflecting the sport's popularity in American entertainment of the era.

Gameplay centers on nine full innings, giving players an extended baseball-themed session for its time. Little further documentation of its scoring mechanics survives; the earliest known trade reference is a Billboard distributor ad from May 1950 listing it as a new game.

Given its age, rarity, and status as an early sports-themed shuffle alley, Baseball is of interest primarily to collectors and historians researching the roots of baseball-themed coin-operated amusements alongside true pinball machines of the period.