1939 Baseball (Payout Model)

The 1939 Baseball (Payout Model) by Western Products, Incorporated is an electro-mechanical baseball-themed pinball game from the company's brief run (1938-1941). Unlike its sibling, the Free Game Model, this payout version has a payout cup on the front left leg, directly rewarding players with coins, though it also retains a free-game button beside the coin slide.

One of its most notable features is the "new multi-colored illuminated flashing backboard," marketed by Western Products as a major visual upgrade over the flat marquee used on earlier models, displaying the words "Western's 1939 Baseball" with the year overlaid diagonally across the name.

Little else is documented about this particular model's designer or original production numbers, and Western Products exited the business shortly after this game's release. Its survival offers collectors a look at the payout side of early baseball-themed pinball, a format that would give way to free-play designs as gambling regulations tightened.