Artist/Maker
McLoughlin Brothers
(American, 1854 – 1921)
Home Baseball Game
1900
Place madeNew York, New York, United States, North America
Cardboard, wood
Overall: 15 x 14 1/4 x 1 1/8 in. (38.1 x 36.2 x 2.9 cm)
The Liman Collection
2000.717
The sport of baseball had already achieved popularity in New York by the 1840s. Alexander Cartwright formalized the rules of the game in New York City in 1846. By the Civil War, baseball clubs pitted Broooklyn against Manhattan at well-attended games.
DescriptionBoard game with box, game board, spinner and eighteen wooden playing pieces; on cover of cardboard box, lithographed illustration of two boys playing baseball, one as the batter and the other as the catcher, batter dressed in a vertically striped shirt and cap, and the catcher all in blue; board represents a baseball diamond with each position indicated with an orange or white circle; crossed baseball bats, gloves and balls in opposite corners; circular cardboard spinner with metal arrow marked with numbers and directions; nine circular red playing pieces and nine circular natural playing pieces; test printed on boxcover: "HOME/ BASEBALL/ GAME/ COPYRIGHT 1900 BY/ McLOUGHLIN BROS./ NEW YORK".ClassificationsTOYS
Collections
- Board and Table Games: The Liman Collection Gift
McLoughlin Brothers
1875
2000.674