"Relive The Golden Era Of America's National Pastime" Ages 8 and up (c)1989 Games by Bluett, Inc. This baseball trivia game can be played on several levels so contestants of different ages may play together. Players answer the questions and mark the bases and home runs on a score pad. Players choose the playing time: from thirty minutes to two hours....
This 1930s Canadian baseball game may be the only existing baseball title that actually features a Canadian maple leaf on the chest of a player on the box top. While undated, it was probably issued around 1936-7, when a foundering Toronto Maple Leafs baseball team was rescued from a buyout and transfer to Albany, NY, by a group of local investors headed by...
One of a number of Chaffee & Selchow table games about sports at the turn of the century: Bicycle Race (1891), The New Bicycle Game (1894), Bowling (1896), The Harvard-Yale Game (1899). The Game of BASKET BALL came out in 1898. Margaret Hofer in her book "The Games We Played" refers to the game with this short paragraph: "Women's Basketball was introduced...
The Game of Football produced by Parker Brothers in 1880 features a picture of young boys playing a game that looks a bit like sandlot football. The game comes with a number of colored pieces that represent players and by jumping over players each team tries to score goals. As a version of late-1800s football, this game would be completely different from...
This game, simulating the American gridiron version of football, comes with a game board representing a football field, a football pin, two pins with colored heads to be used as a 10 yard marker, a dice cup and two dice. As in real football the object is to advance the ball over the opponents goal line for a score. Dice rolls are used for all aspects of...
Game in The New Book of Games, circa 1950. The player who wins the toss begins the game, by placing the “Ball” on the circle of his colour in the centre of the field. He then throws the dice and moves the ball along the line opposite the number thrown. The same player continues to throw until the ball is lost to an opponent by being kicked on to a circle...
"It's fourth and one, your opponent thinks you will run a Fullback Dive... But, you throw the bomb instead... It's a TOUCHDOWN!!!" "The Game of Football" is a board game for playing American Football. The game can be played by one or two players on each team. It is a stats-type game, and on each turn players call plays and defenses, then roll dice and...
The Chad Valley catalogue from 1910 stated that this is "The best indoor football game invented - highly popular with followers of the game." -----from the book "PLAYING THE GAME" by Brian Love, 1978. The object of the game is to be the one to score a predetermined number of goals first. Players alternate throwing a die and moving forward that number of...
This game from McLoughlin Brothers was a game that featured a mechanical man who was controlled by the player. The scorecard that came with the game showed how long each hole was and a conversion into inches was then made by the players. There was an out-of bounds marker and a sand trap and movable green to navigate to and then with a deft touch the ball...