One of the earliest pinball games is this fairly elaborate "World's Series" number from the 1930s, a great example of the genre before flippers were invented. The game, latching onto the appeal of the National Pastime for fun and profit (gamblers were especially fond of pinball, leading to such games being banned for a time in the '40s in New York by Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia), was encased under glass in a sturdy and stately wooden enclosure. The player would pull the spring-loaded plunger and send a steel ball on its way up an inclined planar surface with handpainted with images of ballplayers, through an obstacle course of dozens of embedded pins before falling into holes marked "out", "strike", "hit", "error", etc. Measuring 16 x 34 and 10" and a classic American game from those Saturday nights at the penny arcade. Working condition and overall EX.