Patent ID: 6032954
Filing Date: 2000-03-07
Classification: A63F

Abstract:
A baseball game apparatus comprising, in combination:a playing board including a horizontally oriented bottom face, a top face, an elongated octagon-shaped periphery defined by a peripheral wall including a pair of laterally spaced side walls, the top face having a diamond-shaped playing field with an infield portion, an outfield portion, and a foul ball portion, each portion having a plurality of vertically oriented cylindrical hole recesses formed therein with indicia situated adjacent thereto, the top face being downwardly sloped from the outfield portion to the infield portion and further having dish-shaped recesses surrounding each of the cylindrical hole recesses, the side wall having a plurality of linearly aligned peg holes formed therein adjacent to the outfield portion of the playing field for keeping track of a score and a current inning, the top face of the playing board having a plurality of linearly aligned peg holes formed therein between the infield and outfield portions of the playing field for keeping track of a number of current balls, strikes, runs and outs, wherein a portion of the outfield portion of the playing field includes a home run section;a ball for rolling on the top face of the playing board;a miniature bat for striking the ball along the top face of the playing board;a plurality of defensive player figurines each situated on the playing board adjacent to an associated one of the cylindrical hole recesses; anda plurality of stoppers each including a block mounted on the top face of the playing board, each block including an arcuate surface directed away from the infield and being for retaining the ball from moving toward the infield portion upon the ball coming to rest against said arcuate surface, each block including a flat front face being substantially directed towards a home plate area of the infield portion.