Question on Lee and Ward Ball Game

[Bill Rayburn]

I picked up the "Lee and Ward Ball Game Pat Pen 29" game board last year at the Hunt Louisville Slugger Auction. It's just the board only, no game pieces, instructions or box. Large size 35" wide by 19" tall. High quality printing, brass spinner is on ball bearings inset in the thick, wooden board. The game is not in Mark Cooper's book and I can't find anything on the internet. Any info and thoughts on value would be greatly appreciated.

[Huysmans]

Originally Posted by Bill Rayburn

I picked up the "Lee and Ward Ball Game Pat Pen 29" game board last year at the Hunt Louisville Slugger Auction. It's just the board only, no game pieces, instructions or box. Large size 35" wide by 19" tall. High quality printing, brass spinner is on ball bearings inset in the thick, wooden board. The game is not in Mark Cooper's book and I can't find anything on the internet. Any info and thoughts on value would be greatly appreciated.

Hi Bill, I vaguely remember seeing this game somewhere years ago I believe, but I could be wrong....
Other than that, I can't offer much help, sorry.
...but cool piece.

Brent

[Butch7999]

The Lees and Wood Ball Game auctioned last year by Hunt is the only example of the game we've ever seen or heard of
in all our years in our little backwater of the hobby. It may not be the only surviving example, but it is the only one known
to any game collectors, as far as we've heard (Brent may have spotted an example we missed -- we do need new bifocals).
It's one of the few games to have eluded Mark and his now largely dispersed collection, and neither the AGPC nor Alex Malloy
have any record of it. We'd tend to concur with Hunt Auctions' guess that it's a one-off prototype, never successfully marketed
due mainly to its unwieldy size. The price you paid was a shade higher than we expected to see, but only a shade, given what
a great display piece it is -- other than that, of course, there's no track record of sales, so you've basically established the
market rate for it. Weird that your internet search didn't turn up the listing of the game at our website...

[Bill Rayburn]

Thanks Brent for responding and thanks Butch7999 for the great information. The game board had been in a closet since I returned from the auction. I dug it out last week and had been trying to find some additional info on it. It is a great display piece. Butch7999 your website is fantastic. Thanks again guys.