Patent ID: 6805348
Filing Date: 2004-10-19
Classification: A63F

Abstract:
A baseball board game comprising:a miniature baseball stadium structure; a planar baseball playing field located within the baseball stadium structure, the planar baseball playing field has an infield and an outfield on the baseball playing field, and a foul ball area to the left and right of the infield; a spherical ball representing a baseball; a first base, a second base, a third base, and a home base on the baseball playing field; marked holes and slots on the baseball playing field, adapted to retain the spherical ball wherein each hole corresponds to a baseball game event and marked according to a baseball game event including a â€œsingleâ€ , â€œdoubleâ€ , â€œtripleâ€ , â€œground outâ€ , and â€œfly outâ€ ; a pitching ramp representing a baseball pitching mound on the baseball playing field, the ramp having a groove receiving the ball such that the ball manually released from the top of the ramp rolls down the ramp within the groove and toward home plate; a batting mechanism comprising a paddle bat coupled to a bat handle, wherein manual manipulation of the bat handle swings the paddle bat, wherein the offensive player may swing the paddle bat at the ball pitched from the ramp and rolling toward home plate; a set of seven fielding gloves mounted on the baseball playing field comprising three outfielder gloves and four infielder gloves; the gloves partially enclosing an out slot, the out slot retains the ball when the batter hits the ball into the glove, a rear stadium wall groove behind the center field opening the home-run box behind the center field to the outfield, wherein the rear stadium wall groove does not reach the surface of the playing field so that a ball cannot roll into the homerun box through the rear stadium wall groove, wherein the glove is pivotally mounted on a glove retaining rod inserted in a glove retaining rod hole, said glove pivoting left and right by manual manipulation by a defensive player, the infield and outfield having multiple glove retaining rod holes allowing repositioning by manual manipulation by the defensive player, wherein singles holes are placed in the outfield between the infield and the outfielders, the doubles holes are placed in the outfield near or past the outfielders, the triples holes are located in the extreme corners of the field, one on a left side and one on a right side, the walks holes are located in the infield.