1948 · Chicago Coin
Crazy Ball
Baseball ball park with green outfield grass and yellow infield, red-and-white striped outfield wall, pale-to-deep blue sky with rays, bleachers full of colourful crowd and wooden cabinet frame visible on all four sides.
- Year
- 1948
- Maker
- Chicago Coin
- Type
- Electro-mechanical
- Display
- Backglass lights
- Players
- 1
Made by
- Art
- Roy Parker
Vision analysis
On the backglass
Written by a machine from the photos, so details may be off.
Backglass
- blue
- yellow
- red
- green
Fingerprint: CRAZY BALL in enormous slanted red letters atop giant cream-yellow comet sweeping diagonally, grinning yellow sun overhead, packed crowd of 1950s spectators in straw hats including woman in red top and green skirt smoking pipe, baseball player figures and colorful score panels, Chicago Coin's manufacturer
A giant cream-coloured comet tail, streaked yellow, cuts diagonally across the entire backglass and carries the title CRAZY BALL in enormous slanted red block letters. Above it a grinning yellow sun with a human face beams rays over a small cloud. Along the bottom a dense crowd of grinning 1950s cartoon spectators in straw hats and boaters, including a woman in a red top and green skirt smoking a pipe, press against the frame. Two small white placards on the right of the outfield wall both read CRAZY BALL.
Setting
- Baseball ball park with green outfield grass and yellow infield
- Red-and-white striped outfield wall
- Pale-to-deep blue sky with rays
- Bleachers full of colourful crowd
- Wooden cabinet frame visible on all four sides
Symbols
- Grinning sun with face
- Comet tail with curling tip
- Angle pennants carrying scores
- Smiling round ball with stitched seam
- White cloud
- Numbered score panels
Lettering
- Huge slanted red sans-serif block capitals with dark outline and white shadow on a cream comet tail; smaller black cursive script for the maker line; white numerals with coloured drop shadows inside coloured parallelogram panels
Themes
- Baseball
- Ball park
- Crowd
- Comet
- Score chase
Title on it
- Crazy ball
Text on it
- CRAZY BALL
- Chicago Coin's
- 60,000
- 100,000
- 200,000
- 300,000
- 400,000
- 500,000
- 700,000
- 800,000
- 900,000
- 10,000
- 20,000
- 30,000
- 40,000
- 50,000
- 70,000
- 80,000
- 90,000
| Kind | Description |
|---|---|
| Man | Batter in white uniform with red sash, blue cap, swinging a yellow bat, white motion arcs around him |
| Man | Fielder in all-red shirt and cap with red socks, crouched low on the infield with arms out |
| Man | Kneeling man in yellow shirt and yellow cap holding a red mitt, behind the batter |
| Man | Distant umpire in blue suit standing on the grass with arms raised |
| Woman | Spectator with dark blue waved hair, red off-shoulder top, green skirt with white belt, smoking a long pipe, hand on hip |
| Child | Grinning boy bottom left in red cap and blue shirt, holding a small card or paper, missing front tooth |
| Man | Spectator in blue cap, red beard, green vest over checkered shirt, pointing with outstretched arm |
| Man | Spectator in straw boater with red band, pale blue checkered shirt and yellow checked trousers, hand to mouth |
| Man | Spectator in blue cap and cream striped shirt with red braces, blue trousers, hands cupped to mouth |
| Woman | Spectator in yellow spotted blouse with pink hair rollers and a yellow hat with red band, seen from behind |
| Man | Spectator in blue cap and blue shirt behind her, facing away |
| Man | Laughing man at right in white boater with blue band, red bow tie, blue-and-white checkered shirt and red jacket |
| Woman | Spectator with yellow-blonde hair and white puff sleeve, seen from behind at right |
| Man | Spectator at far left edge in blue shirt with red-and-black hair, side profile |
A 1950s-style cartoon baseball backglass set in a ball park. A huge cream-and-yellow comet tail sweeps diagonally from lower left to upper right across the whole picture, carrying the title in big slanted red block capitals, CRAZY BALL, with the smaller black script Chicago Coin's tucked in on the tail's left arm. The sky is deep blue at the top fading to pale blue, with a grinning yellow sun face and a small white cloud. The top third is packed with angled score panels in red, yellow, green and blue rectangles carrying white and coloured numerals: 60,000, 700,000, 800,000, 900,000 across the top row, then 100,000, 200,000, 300,000, 400,000, 500,000, and a small green flag reading 10,000, red flag 20,000, yellow flag 30,000, red flag 40,000. A long red-and-white striped outfield wall runs across the middle with 50,000, 60,000, 70,000, 80,000 and 90,000 on it, and two small white signs on the right read CRAZY BALL. On the yellow-green field a red-shirted fielder crouches, a batter in white with a red sash and blue cap swings a yellow bat, and a man in yellow kneels behind him; a blue-suited umpire stands in the distance. The bottom third is packed shoulder to shoulder with cartoon spectators in straw hats, a woman in a red top and green skirt with dark blue hair smoking a pipe, a grinning boy in a red cap, and a laughing man in a checkered shirt and blue boater.