Game Information

1945 copyright: cover

rules

game board

implements box cover. Milton Bradley catalogs (1949 and 1950 but not 1948).

Milton Bradley Company

4670

[none]

[title WINKO
BASEBALL]

A GAME OF SKILL

MILTON BRADLEY COMPANY
SPRINGFIELD, MASSACHUSETTS

No. 4670

MADE IN U.S.A.

The game comes in a square box with a yellow background.

baseball, diamong, bat, cather, umpire, strike, out, home plate, sacrifice, walk

large label under box lid

"WINKO BASEBALL A Game of Skill and Excitement for Two to Eighteen Players"

19½ inches wide — 19½ inches high — 1 inches deep

49.5 cm wide — 49.5 cm high — 2.5 cm deep

Label with large yellow triangles in corners. Green diamond background across face. "WINKO" in white with black shadow above "BASEBALL" in red with white outline. Baseball batter, catcher, and umpire depicted over green background, with yellow home plate.

"A" above "GAME" above" "OF" above "SKILL" (in black) appears on a vertical red triangle at lower right, with a black shadow to the lower-right.

"MILTON BRADLEY COMPANY" (in black) appears at bottom, starting in the lower left yellow corner and ending in the lower right one, but mostly appearing over the green diamond.

"No. 4670" is shown in black at lower left.

"MADE IN U.S.A." appears in black at lower right.

red

red, no design

The "WINKO BASEBALL IMPLEMENTS" box measures 8 1/2" wide by 5 5/8" high by 3/4" deep. The cover has graphics like the outer game box top.

The box contains the winks and wooden baseball-bat shooters along with dozens of score cards on a tear-off pad.

The gameboard is made of thick hard board (19" x 19"), not folding, with red border, green grass areas, and orange-yellow basepaths. "Winko Baseball" in far center field. "No. 4670-X". Layout of baseball field, with green felt at home plate; "STRIKE" in infield; "Batter Out / SACRIFICE / Runners advance 1 base" by first and third base; "BASE ON BALLS" between first and second and between second and third; "SINGLE" at second base; "OUT" in close outfield a, half of center field forward, mid-right field, far right-field, far left-field; "TWO BASE HIT" in outward mid-right and mid-left fields; "THREE BASE HIT" in inward mid-left and mid-right fields; "HOME RUN" all around far outfield but inside outermost "OUT".

In implements box: flat painted wooden bats (flat on one side, round on the other, 2 5/8" x 11/16" maximum) with 2 red and 2 blue. Large (7/8"): 9 red, 9 blue, representing the players on each side.. Small (5/8"): 4 white, representing the baseball.