Description: Batting Practice, Irving Kaye, 7/65, based on the 1941 Scientific Batting Practice. This is a single player ramp style baseball game that had cast manikin playfield players. The balls pitched were plastic and pitched automatically, for a total of 15 balls. There's four decks at the back of the playfield for scoring. Like the 1940 Texas Leaguer, a deck represented 1,2,3 or 4 runs.

Unfortunately unlike the 1941 Scientific Batting Practice and the 1958 Keeney League Leader, the Irving Kaye Batting Practice does not score player positions on the infield diamond. Instead the player gets 1,2,3 or 4 runs depending on the deck hit by the ball (higher decks yield more runs.) The runs scored and balls pitched are tracked by Bally score reels in the backglass.

The playfield men are frankly, more like green army men than baseball players. They serve no purpose other than decoration. It's too bad they are not painted like the players on the 1941 Scientific Batting Practice. The batting mech for this game is purely mechanical. Meaning the harder the player squeezed the trigger, the harder the bat/ball were hit. The front legs are dinette style round legs. Operator adjustable game from 15 or 20 balls pitched.

Although marketed by Irving Kaye, the Batting Practice games were built by Bally using Bally parts at the Belmont Avenue Bally plant. In fact the score reels, coin door, score motor, and stepper units were all Bally parts. Mr. Irving Kaye himself was vice president of the Board of Directors for Bally Manufacturing Corporation, since he was one of the main investors of Bally in 1963 (about the time Bally introduced hopper style slot machines.)

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