Made by
- Design
- Wayne Neyens
- Art
- Roy Parker
Vision analysis
On the backglass
Written by a machine from the photos, so details may be off.
Backglass
- sky blue
- yellow
- red
- green
Fingerprint: 'GRAND SLAM' in red block letters, giant baseball with red stitching stamped 'MILLION', 3x3 colored score grid (100,000-900,000), purple RUNS marquee, carnival ballpark with white-red grandstand left, dirt diamond center, green outfield right, blonde woman in yellow top and orange shorts center, spectators, small figures playing, yellow pennants and hot-air balloon, pale sky-blue background, flat mid-century carnival painted style.
The most memorable element is a giant white baseball at the top left, laced with red stitching and stamped MILLION in curved blue lettering. Below it a carnival ballpark scene is crowded with comic-strip figures, including a blonde woman in a yellow top and orange shorts standing dead centre over the dirt diamond. A 3x3 grid of coloured score windows (100,000 to 900,000) fills the upper right, with a purple RUNS window beneath. A crouching man in a bowler hat beside a crate marked 1 TV sits in the bottom-left corner. Small banners read BULL PEN and a speech bubble reads OM! A DATE.
Setting
- Summer carnival baseball stadium
- Outfield and dirt diamond
- Striped grandstands
- Pale blue sky
Symbols
- Baseball with red stitching
- Playing-card-style score grid
- Yellow pennant banners
- Red-and-white striped awnings
- Hot-air balloon
- Checkered flag
- Flags on poles
- Grandstand towers
Lettering
- Huge red block capitals with heavy yellow and black outline for the title; curved blue sans-serif capitals on the baseball; white block capitals on coloured rectangular panels for the numbers; white script on a red plaque for the manufacturer
Themes
- Baseball
- Carnival
- Sports
- Comic strip
- Prize money
Title on it
- Grand slam
Text on it
- GRAND SLAM
- MILLION
- RUNS
- 100,000
- 200,000
- 300,000
- 400,000
- 500,000
- 600,000
- 700,000
- 800,000
- 900,000
- D. Gottlieb & Co
- ST. LOUIS
- BULL PEN
- OM! A DATE
- 1 TV
| Kind | Description |
|---|---|
| Man | Kneeling left foreground in a white shirt and red cap, holding a baseball in an outstretched hand |
| Woman | Blonde, yellow top and orange shorts, standing centre on the dirt, hair in a ponytail |
| Child | Boy in a blue cap and red shirt being tugged by two women in the lower right foreground |
| Woman | Orange-haired in a purple top and green skirt, pulling the boy's arm, lower right |
| Woman | Dark-haired in a pale blue dress, steadying the boy from the far right |
| Man | In a blue-and-white striped bathing suit, diving or sliding headfirst across the dirt |
| Man | Crouching bottom left in a purple polka-dot bowler hat and dark jacket, beside a wooden crate |
| Man | In a green shirt and dark trousers running across the outfield, mid-right |
| Child | In a blue cap and red shirt running in the mid-field grass |
| Other | Man in a striped outfit leaping at the left grandstand roof, mid-ground |
| Other | Dozens of tiny spectator figures in coloured shirts packed along the grandstand roofs |
A painted backglass in a flat cartoon style, dominated by a pale sky-blue background. Across the top a huge yellow-outlined red block-letter title reads GRAND SLAM. Upper left is a giant white baseball with red stitching and the word MILLION in curved blue capitals across it. To the right sits a 3x3 grid of rectangular score panels (100,000 through 900,000) in alternating red, green and grey faces, and below that a wide purple marquee reading RUNS flanked by a green and a yellow window. The scene is a summer carnival baseball field: a white-and-red striped ballpark grandstand on the left packed with tiny spectators, a green outfield with a brown dirt diamond, and a purple-brown pyramid-shaped grandstand on the right with a red-roofed tower and a tiny flag. Foreground figures include a kneeling man in a white shirt and red cap holding a baseball, a blonde woman in a yellow top and orange shorts standing centre, a boy in a blue cap and red shirt being pulled by two women, a striped bathing-suit figure diving, and a bowler-hat man crouching beside a box marked 1 TV. Yellow and orange pennant banners, a hot-air balloon, and a BULL PEN sign fill the middle. Dominant colours: sky blue, yellow, red, green.