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Sandy Andy Pennant Winner Baseball Game

Object number2009.8.1 a-p

Manufacturer Wolverine Supply and Manufacturing Company (1903 - 1962)

Date1930-1939

OriginPittsburgh, PA

Mediumiron; wood; ink; canvas; plastic(?)

Credit LineGift of Gary Carroll

DescriptionWolverine Pennant Winner baseball board game set.Dimensions(a) Height: 25 ; Width: 18 ; Depth: 1.625
(b-m) H: 1.625 ; W: .625 ; D: .375
(n) H/W: .75
(o) H: 4 ; W: 2.625
(p) H: 25.25 ; W: 18.5 ; D: 2
Inscriptions(a)
Beige text throughout, from top: "3 BASE HIT", "HOME RUN", "2 BASE HIT", "1 BASE HIT", "FOUL OUT".
Image of waving pennant, black and beige with green text: "PENNANT WINNER".
Marks(a)
Manufacturer's symbols and information on lower right corner.
Inside beige baseball: "WOLVERINE / BASEBALL / GAME".
"PAT: 1.396.798 OTHER PATS. PEND'G / MADE BY WOLVERINE SUPPLY & MFG. CO., PITTSBURGH, U.S.A."

(p)
Front of box top has text printed "Ind. 157 / "Sandy Andy" / PENNANT WINNER / BASEBALL GAME / MFG'D BY / WOLVERINE SUPPLY & MFG. CO. / N S., PITTSBURGH, PA."
Historical Notes"Sandy Andy" "Pennant Winner" Baseball Game made by Wolverine and owned by Gary Carroll, formerly of Natrona Heights. This Wolverine Toy Company baseball game was named after famous Wolverine toy “Sandy Andy”. The mechanical baseball game was made from 1929 to 1950. Wolverine Toy Company was founded in 1903 in Pittsburgh by Benjamin Franklin Bain, who named the company after the University of Michigan football team. The company first made pie tins and stovetop toasters; around 1910, Bain created a gravity-action toy called "Sandy Andy" that dumped and loaded sand on its own. The toy was a hit. During World War II, Wolverine was converted from manufacturing toys to military equipment. In 1968, the company was moved to Arkansas, eventually changing its name to "Today's Kids" and changed from producing metal toys to plastic.

Previous owner Gary Carroll

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