Baseball game-board device

Claim 1

IN A GAME, A BOARD MEMBER, A BALL POSITIONER HAVING A PLURALITY OF RECESSED POCKETS SPACED FROM AND IN FACING RELATION TO SAID BOARD MEMBER, EACH OF SAID POCKETS BEING PROPORTIONED OPERATIVELY TO ACCOMMODATE THEREIN A BALL OF PREDETERMINED SIZE, AND BALL PROPELLING MEANS ADJACENT SAID POCKETS AND ADAPTED FOR ENGAGEMENT WITH A BALL OPERATIVELY POSITIONED WITHIN ANY OF SAID POCKETS FOR PROPELLING IT ALONG A PATH IN THE GENERAL DIRECTION OF SAID BOARD, SAID POCKETS HAVING LATERAL WALLS OF DIFFERENT CONFIGURATIONS, CERTAIN OF SAID LATERAL WALLS BEING IN DIFFERENT PARTIAL INTERSECTING RELATIONS TO SAID PATH, SAID POCKETS BEING DEFINED BY WALLS OF SUBSTANTIALLY SEMI-CIRCULAR CONFIGURATIONS, THE LATERAL WALL OF ONE OF SAID POCKETS HAVING A PORTION THEREOF EXTENDING LATERALLY IN ONE DIRECTION TO PARTIALLY OVERLAP THE OPENING OF SAID POCKET, AND THE LATERAL WALL OF ANOTHER OF SAID POCKETS HAVING A PORTION THEREOF EXTENDING LATERALLY IN THE OPPOSITE DIRECTION TO PARTIALLY OVERLAP THE OPENING OF SAID LATTER POCKET.