Launcher

Type to filter results. Use arrow keys to navigate, Enter to select.

You've reached the end of the results

1950 · Williams

Lucky Inning

Baseball diamond seen from above, tan clay infield, striped green grass and dark navy scoring banner across the top.

Year
1950
Maker
Williams
Type
Electro-mechanical
Display
Backglass lights
Players
1

Made by

Design
Gordon Horlick
Art
George Molentin

Vision analysis

On the backglass

Written by a machine from the photos, so details may be off.

Lucky Inning backglass

Backglass

  • green
  • yellow
  • blue
  • brown

Fingerprint: 'INNING' in huge yellow arched block letters, navy score panel digits 1-9 then 10-40 in colored boxes flanked by white baseballs, top-down baseball diamond clay home plate, pitcher gray red cap socks left, flat mid-century cartoon style

Distinctive

The single most memorable element is the huge yellow block-letter word INNING arcing across the middle of the art beneath a navy score panel listing the digits 1 to 9 and then 10, 20, 30 and 40 in blue and yellow boxes, each flanked by little white baseballs. Second is the top-down view of a tan clay home-plate wedge set into striped green outfield grass. Third is the pitcher in grey with red cap, red socks and glove frozen mid-windup on the left, balanced by the blue-sleeved batter with a raised bat on the right.

Setting

  • Baseball diamond seen from above
  • Tan clay infield
  • Striped green grass
  • Dark navy scoring banner across the top

Symbols

  • White stitched baseballs
  • Baseball bats
  • Baseball caps
  • Home plate
  • Numbered scoring boxes
  • Grass mowing stripes

Lettering

  • Flat capitals and numerals with heavy black outlines and yellow edging; runs in plain yellow sans-serif capitals, inning in oversized yellow block letters, home in small black capitals on a white pennant-shaped plaque

Themes

  • Baseball
  • Ball game
  • Sport
  • Diamond
  • Team sport

Title on it

  • Inning

Text on it

  • RUNS
  • INNING
  • HOME
  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • 5
  • 6
  • 7
  • 8
  • 9
  • 10
  • 20
  • 30
  • 40
Who and what
Kind Description
Man Pitcher at the left edge in a grey uniform, red cap, red socks and a red glove, arms raised mid-windup
Man Batter at the right in a grey uniform with blue sleeves and blue cap, dark glasses, gripping a bat raised behind his shoulder
Man Small batter at bottom centre in a white top and blue trousers, holding a bat, standing at the plate
Man Catcher crouched in blue gear directly behind that batter, glove forward
Man Another grey-uniformed player at the upper right of the field, partly cropped by the frame
Full description

Translucent backglass for a baseball-themed game, painted in a flat mid-century cartoon style. The top fifth is a dark navy-blue scoring panel carrying two rows of bright blue rectangles outlined in yellow: an upper row of single digits 1 to 9 (alternating red, yellow and green fills) and a lower row of larger blue boxes reading 10, 20, 30 and 40, with white stitched baseballs spaced between them; the word RUNS is lettered below in yellow capitals, and huge yellow-outlined block letters spelling INNING sit lower down. Below the score panel the scene opens onto a baseball diamond seen from above: a broad tan clay infield shaped like a home-plate wedge, ringed by striped dark and light green grass. Five uniformed male players are painted around the field - a pitcher in grey with a red cap, red socks and a red glove winding up at the left; a batter at the right in a grey uniform with blue sleeves, blue cap and dark glasses, bat raised over his shoulder; a small batter in white and blue and a crouching catcher in blue at the bottom centre at the plate; and a further grey-clad player at the upper right. The dominant colours are green, tan, yellow and blue, with black outlines throughout and no photographic shading.