Patent ID: 6170829
Filing Date: 2001-01-09
Classification: A63F

Abstract:
A baseball game, comprising:a) a set of result cards divided into a plurality of subsets, each card labeled with a symbol such as B1, B2, . . . or P1, P2, . . . which identifies its subset, the symbols further indicating whether the performance rating of a batter or a pitcher must be tested in order to arrive at a play result, each of these subsets of cards being further subdivided into subgroups, each card in one of said subgroups further containing a specific type of potential play result such as home run the actualization of which depends upon a predetermined non-numeric rating assigned to a batter or a pitcher to measure his performance, each card further containing a string of actualization symbols, some of the actualization symbols in the string associated with a specific play on the same result card, with means provided to indicate whether an actualization symbol is activated on a specific result card so that when the actualization symbol is compared with the appropriate batter or pitcher's rating during the course of play, the play associated with the actualization symbol occurs;b) a random item generator comprising said set of result cards, said random item generator generating a set of items comprising symbols, each of which indicates the subset to which a result card belongs, actualization symbols, and play results such as home run which are associated with some of the actualization symbols;c) a set of batter cards, each batter card containing a batting rating for a batter for each of the subsets of result cards which depends upon a predetermined rating assigned to a batter, the random item generator operating to produce one of said symbols which is used to look up a batter rating associated with that symbol on a batter card, said batter rating representing a plurality of yes or no decisions, each decision indicating whether the batter with that rating actualizes one of the types of results such as strikeout which appear on one of said subsets of result cards, said batter rating contributing to the production of a play result;d) a set of pitcher cards, each pitcher card containing a pitching rating for a pitcher for each of the subsets of result cards which depends upon a predetermined rating assigned to a pitcher, the random item generator operating to produce one of said symbols which is used to look up a pitcher rating associated with that symbol on the pitcher card, said pitcher rating representing a plurality of yes or no decisions, each decision indicating whether the pitcher with that rating actualizes the results in one of said subsets of results, said pitcher rating contributing to the production of a play result.