Baseball Patents (Class 273/244.1)
  • Patent number: 11918919
    Abstract: A board game apparatus is disclosed. The board game apparatus has a support assembly, a first member rotatably supported by the support assembly, a second member rotatably supported by the support assembly and covering part of the first member, a board member rotatably supported by the support assembly and including a plurality of apertures, the board member covering the first member and the second member, and a raised member rotatably supported by the support assembly above the board member and forming a gap between the raised member and the board member. A first portion of the first member and a second portion of the second member are visible from above the board member through the plurality of apertures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Inventor: Stephen L. Keefe
  • Patent number: 10300376
    Abstract: A display device comprises a display, a storage configured to store a game video of a game of baseball captured in advance and scorebook data corresponding to the game, and a controller configured to extract from the game video, when score information of a specific player included in the scorebook data is selected, a displayed video including an at-bat video of the specific player in an at-bat related to the selected score information, and when the specific player advanced to base, also a base-running video of the specific player related to the selected score information as a runner in the at-bat to cause the display to display the displayed video.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2019
    Assignee: JVC KENWOOD Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuyuki Inagaki, Tatsushi Nakanishi
  • Patent number: 10143314
    Abstract: A display apparatus having a base member with an outer surface, outer boundaries defined by the base member, and at least one platform extending from the outer surface of the base member and defining an upper surface. Wherein the outer boundaries of the base member define a scene and the at least one platform is positioned along the base member at a location that corresponds with the scene.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2018
    Inventor: Greg Strochinsky
  • Patent number: 9842468
    Abstract: A gaming system includes a gaming device and one or more controllers. The gaming device has a surface configured to display a wagering game. The controller is configured to display on the surface a designated area including indicia indicating where an electronic device held by a player should be placed in the designated area. In response to the electronic device being placed in proximity to the surface in the designated area, an illuminating flashing pattern representing an electronic identification code is caused to occur between the surface and the electronic device in the designated area. In response to causing the flashing pattern, a session associating play of the wagering game with a player account of the player is established.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2017
    Assignee: Bally Gaming, Inc.
    Inventors: Mark B. Gagner, Timothy T. Gronkowski, Paul M. Lesley, Timothy C. Loose, Jim Motyl, James M. Rasmussen, Victor T. Shi, Alfred Thomas, Jesse Smith
  • Publication number: 20130313778
    Abstract: Disclosed is a baseball board game and method for playing a baseball board game the includes a game board having a baseball diamond provided thereon, one or more conventional, six-sided game dice that are rolled to achieve a sum value of three through eighteen, and rules which include batting outcomes that correspond with the three through eighteen sum values to determine events that occur during a simulated baseball game that includes two participants taking turns rolling the dice, each turn including three or more dice rolls and representing three outs of the simulated baseball game, each out being determined according to the batting outcomes. In some embodiments, the baseball board game also includes two sets of nine or more baseball cards that may be positioned at locations proximate each of the four bases on the baseball diamond. One or more score sheets are also provided in some embodiments.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2012
    Publication date: November 28, 2013
    Inventor: John D. THOMAS
  • Patent number: 8292709
    Abstract: There is described an apparatus for a sports game involving movement of a projectile, the apparatus comprising impact sensors for detecting impacts by a player of the sport game or the projectile, the impact sensors being coupled to a processor operable to derive characteristic data for a projectile movement from impacts detected by two or more of the player impact sensors. By monitoring impacts, rather than the movement of the projectile through the air, the apparatus may be both inexpensive and easy to install.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2012
    Inventor: Richard Bruce Welch
  • Publication number: 20120211941
    Abstract: A stadium board game that relates to major league baseball comprising: a playing board; a set of game tokens, where each player advances around the playing board using one of the tokens; a pair of dice; multiple sets of admission tickets, where admission tickets are collected by players advancing around the playing board; and line up cards, where the line up cards instruct the player to position their token. The playing board may be double sided, where one side of the board game is used for the American League and the opposite side of the board game is used for the National League. The admission tickets are awarded or forfeited based upon the game space instruction. The stadiums of the board game are associated with the spaces on the playing board.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 18, 2011
    Publication date: August 23, 2012
    Inventor: Douglas Lacey
  • Publication number: 20090283970
    Abstract: The present invention provides a truly entertaining user friendly board game of baseball, which captures the essential fundamentals and rules of baseball, easy to follow, with a simple structural configuration, and few structural elements. Since the board game of baseball of the present invention, does not demand intense concentration, it can be played leaving room for the players to engage in other aspects of an entertaining and friendly interaction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 19, 2008
    Publication date: November 19, 2009
    Inventors: Antonio Hilario Silva Sanchez, Juan Antonio Acosta Hernandez
  • Patent number: 7523940
    Abstract: A baseball dice game system for playing a game of baseball with dice includes a case including a bottom wall and a perimeter wall that extends upwardly from the bottom wall to define a playing space of the case. The case has a plurality of base apertures that extend into the bottom wall through a playing surface of the bottom wall and are positioned to represent bases of a baseball diamond. The case includes a plurality of pitch result apertures. The pitch result apertures are arranged in a grid comprising three strike columns and four ball rows. The pitch result apertures are positioned adjacent an area representative of home plate of a baseball diamond. A pair of play dice is rolled to determine a result of a pitch. A plurality of player pegs is inserted into the base apertures and the pitch result apertures when the play dice are rolled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2009
    Inventor: Ken Jacobson
  • Patent number: 7354040
    Abstract: An educational game and system for nostalgically replicating a baseball game and a method for playing a baseball board game are provided. Two players alternate between the roles of batting and fielding. A series of cards from one deck are turned to advance players around the bases and to accumulate outs. Various decks of cards are used at each player's option to determine the outcome for on-base situations, hitting situations and running situations. Game pieces are used to mark the positions of runners on base and to tally the number of runs scored during a half-inning. An old-fashioned scoreboard is provided to record the total number of runs that are scored at the end of each half-inning. A traditional scorecard is provided to record each play of the game.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2008
    Inventor: Anthony Schneider
  • Patent number: 7128320
    Abstract: A bingo game sheet for playing a game in combination with a baseball game or the like, includes five rows and five columns which intersect to form a five by five matrix having twenty five zones, each of the rows and columns being associated with a particular inning number or one special event designation so that one zone becomes associated with the two inning numbers or with the one inning number and the special event designation, each zone containing indicia which corresponds to a play or event associated with a baseball game. The particular game and an arrangement of the twenty-five zones on the sheet are identified through the control number to find out the winners.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2003
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2006
    Assignee: Direct Network, Inc.
    Inventors: Katsuichiro Yamaguchi, Kazuki Saito
  • Patent number: 6983936
    Abstract: A sports trivia board game includes a game board having a substantially planar top surface and indicia thereon for illustrating a baseball field. The game board further includes a six-sided die, a plurality of playing cards for providing trivia questions for players to ask one another, and a mechanical mechanism for displaying a player's ball and strike count. The board game further includes a plurality of game pieces including upper and lower portions and a plurality of spring members for connecting the upper and lower portions to each other. When select ones of the plurality of game pieces are moved across the game board, the upper portion of a game piece is thereby caused to oscillate about the spring member. The board game further includes a plurality of score pads, a plurality of writing utensils, and a reusable scoreboard having a dry-erase surface for keeping track of a player's score.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2003
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2006
    Inventor: Edward A. Clapper
  • Publication number: 20040217546
    Abstract: A baseball game set provides system for interactive play of the baseball game, with simple structures. This game and playing process provides a balance of luck and strategy with luck supplanted by strategy as the game progresses. There are two spinning wheels: a batter spinning wheel and a pitcher spinning wheel, and player cards which are collected and utilized throughout game play.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 2, 2003
    Publication date: November 4, 2004
    Inventor: Frederick Gambrell
  • Publication number: 20040195768
    Abstract: An approach to realistically schematizing professional team sports embodied as board games, and particularly a preferred embodiment schematizing American football, baseball and basketball, as well as soccer, ice hockey and golf. One key to the realistic play of the game is the On-The-Roll™ (“OTR”) mechanism where, once play begins, real time play continues, generally against a clock, where both teams, generally, continue to roll dice continuing sub-play actions or elements, until a play is completed, as by a touchdown, tackle, or otherwise. Other games employ a one-player OTR mechanism for processes such as putting or hazard escape in golf. An additional essential element is a series of rules and charts, based on statistical compilation of many actual professional games, that map various combinations of offensive and defensive strategy options and dice rolls onto realistic game situations and the progression among them.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 2, 2004
    Publication date: October 7, 2004
    Inventor: Jeff Poulos
  • Patent number: 6783128
    Abstract: A card game that is played by spectators watching or listening to a live baseball game. The game consists of a deck of cards equally distributed between two to nine players. Each card is associated with one of nine possible specific end batting events that can occur to a batter when batting. Prior to the first pitch, the card players examine their cards and consider the likelihood that the action or event depicted on one of their cards will occur to the next batter, taking into consideration the skill of the batter, the pitcher, and the game situation. The card player who holds the card that matches the actual action or end batting event that occurs to the batter, wins the round. The cards are then reshuffled and distributed to the card players before the first pitch is delivered to the next batter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2004
    Inventors: Gerald A. Casey, Greg Mills
  • Patent number: 6666455
    Abstract: A baseball board and trivia game for providing fun and entertainment for baseball enthusiasts. The baseball board and trivia game includes a game board having a top side and further having a simulated diamond-shaped playing field diagrammed upon said top side and including simulated first, second and third bases and a simulated home base being diagrammed upon the simulated diamond-shaped playing field; and also includes decks of playing cards including a first deck of playing cards each having a baseball trivia question and answer displayed upon a side thereof, and also including a second deck of playing cards each having a particular baseball play outcome being displayed upon a side thereof; and further includes a plurality of game pieces being movably positioned upon the game board.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2002
    Date of Patent: December 23, 2003
    Inventor: James M. Dow
  • Patent number: 6419227
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for playing a simulated baseball game for teaching the strategy and for simulating the activity of a baseball game. The method and apparatus for playing a simulated baseball game includes a game board. The game board has a baseball diamond thereon. A scorecard has a matrix thereon. The matrix has heading indicia thereon. A plurality of game pieces are used. A portion of the game pieces is colored red, and a portion of the game pieces is colored white, wherein the red game pieces define fast runners and wherein the white game pieces define power hitters. A chance means motivates actions of the competing players. The chance means provides a two digit number. An outcome portion has means thereon for denoting plays and progress of play according to an outcome of the chance means. An asterisk represents an outcome for a fast runner and a letter P represents an outcome for a power hitter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2000
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2002
    Inventor: Thomas W. Barnhardt
  • Patent number: 6315293
    Abstract: A preferred embodiment of the board game incorporates a carrying case which includes a base and a lid. The base preferably includes a wall extending upwardly from a periphery thereof, with the wall having first and second ends which are spaced from each other to form a first gap therebetween, with the first gap being sized and shaped for passing a die therethrough. A playing surface is arranged on the base with at least a portion of the playing surface preferably being formed of a flocked plastic material which provides deadening of sound produced by the die impacting the playing surface. Game pieces representative of baseball players and/or their equipment, i.e. bats, batting helmets, etc., also arc provided which arc adapted to be moved about the playing surface in accordance with rules of game play.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2000
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2001
    Assignee: Universal Baseball Corporation
    Inventor: Chris Bush
  • Patent number: 6185746
    Abstract: The present invention provides a shirt with a display of the upcoming schedule of an athletic team, wherein the display has blanks or fields that the wearer or shirt owner individual can fill in after each event to record information such as the winner and loser of the event, the final score, and the cumulative won/lost record of the chosen team. The information is recorded on the shirt using a washable, non-bleeding ink marker. Thus, the invention allows individuals to customize the shirt display after each event and wear the shirt throughout the season. At the conclusion of the season, the shirt can continued to be worn, or is suitable for framing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 1999
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2001
    Inventor: Mary Colleen Scott