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I found 20 more butterscotch bases on eBay and I've added the bases to my draft choices for the Suncats. 🌞🐅

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The butterscotch dials will become part of the Golden Grizzlies' draft. 🤩👍

The funky blue players are reserve players for the Thunderbirds🦅

The funky red players will go into storage.

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Enjoy the Journey    T43    🏈♾️

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Those butterscotch bases are the oddest color choice for a base I’ve seen. I would like to pick the brain of the designer on that. I didn’t even know they existed until the last year or so. Structurally, what base are they comparable to?

Journey On!

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I am not absolutely positive, but when Superior Toys / Tudor Games went bankrupt in 1990-1991? It is possible that Playtime bought the base molds that were Tudor's. On the box cover of the 1991 Playtime ABC Monday Night Football, all the parts - Players, teams, Bases game parts are all Tudor. 

Structurally? Comparable to the Tudor TTC dial bases of the late 1980's.   

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On 1/24/2024 at 8:04 PM, Daryl Collins said:

Those butterscotch bases are the oddest color choice for a base I’ve seen.

I believe there is a natural assumption that the base should be green because grass is green. 🟩 Yet, Tudor frequently called the bases: cleats. 👟 Cleats make the base part of the player — specifically the shoe — which makes sense since the base, like the player's foot, is doing the work.

Perhaps if I called the color: 🤠 Texas Longhorn burnt orange, then the color would look perfectly natural? 🤔

Enjoy the Journey    T43.   🏈♾️

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On 1/24/2024 at 9:04 PM, Daryl Collins said:

Those butterscotch bases are the oddest color choice for a base I’ve seen.

I really think the color was just to differentiate the Playtime Brand from the Tudor Brand. It does help in identifying the base as a Playtime base rather than a Tudor Base.  As far as I know Miggle Toys / Tudor Games never made a base this color when they started producing the colored "Convention" bases. Another reason I think that they are so in demand is that the plastic is harder than others and will hold a "tweak" better. 

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14 hours ago, nefgm.org said:

Another reason I think that they are so in demand is that the plastic is harder than others and will hold a "tweak" better.

Exactly. 😃👍  Perhaps the plastic is getting more rigid with age, or the plastic was more rigid to begin with, I don't know. 🤔 But I know I'm not alone in my admiration for these bases. 😍 

Enjoy the Journey.   T43.    🏈♾️

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5 minutes ago, Terry43 said:

Perhaps the plastic is getting more rigid with age, or the plastic was more rigid to begin with, I don't know.

I think it is just the original plastic they used. Tudors late 80's and even early 90's darker green TTC bases some to be about the same. Have a great day. and Journey On!! (Thanks Daryl Collins, now you got me saying it! LOL)

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They could be looked at as "the dirt" instead of grass, for those fields that also had the baseball field on them in the early fall. They would be great for my Ultimate Baltimore Memorial Stadium 1969 field! 🙂 I have a few...I'll have to fish them out. 

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