Base Ball (1903)

This boxed card game comes in a 5 3/8" x 3 7/8" box containing the rulebook and 94 cards. The game may have also included paper scoring sheets. The card deck consists of 40 batter cards and 54 fielder cards. The batter cards describe results of each pitch, such as "Ball Batted to Left field", "Strike Called", "Foul Ball" , etc. The fielder cards describe the outcome of a play, with results such as "Fielder gets ball on fly in deep field. Batter is out. Base runners advance one base after ball is caught", "First Baseman makes a fine pickup of bad throw from shortstop. Batter out. Base runners advance one base", "Pitcher stops hard drive but loses sight of the ball a moment. Batter safe at first. No advance on bases", etc.