An application for a U.S. patent was filed 
  in December 1927 by James M. Prentice 
  of Holyoke, Massachusetts.  Prentice 
  was 17 years old. 
       The patent, for "Electric Baseball," 
  was granted less than a year later, and 
  Jim Prentice Electric Baseball, under 
  a variety of titles and in a variety of forms, 
  would go on to a production run of more 
  than thirty years. 

  Despite the enduring popularity of the 
  fondly-remembered Prentice games, 
  their more than thirty variations and their 
  chronology are poorly documented, and 
  Prentice himself (1910-2005) seems a 
  mysterious figure to most, little known 
  beyond his name.  We're attempting to 
  correct just a little of that in this photo-
  essay, sorting through the variations 
  of the games with the corroborating 
  evidence of period advertisements, with 
  our own guesswork based on similarities 
  in box and gameboard graphics, and on 
  newspaper articles, the search for which 
  had us pestering librarians from Buffalo 
  to Boston.  Additional information and 
  corrections are welcomed.  

 Prentice initially sold, or at least licensed, the rights 
 to his invention to Parker Brothers, the game-publishing 
 giant of nearby Salem -- probably to help fund his 
 college tuition at the University of New Hampshire, 
 whence he graduated with a degree in mathematics. 
       Parkers produced Electric Base Ball Game, shown 
 here, arguably the first electrical boardgame ever, in 
 the very early 1930s.  

  Some collectors or vendors assume "Jim Prentice Electric Baseball" 
  is a "player-endorsed" game, that Prentice was a pro ballplayer.  
  Far from it.  In a March 2000 article about Prentice in the Springfield 
  Union-News, Prentice's lifelong friend Harry Craven recalled their 
  boyhood.  "When I was playing baseball, Jimmy was working on his 
  games."  
        Prentice returned to Holyoke after college, but his education 
  got him only a 14-dollar-a-week job as an office boy.  But with the 
  enormous aid of his uncle Arthur Dougherty -- $3,000. in start-up 
  money, in the depths of the Great Depression -- the ever-enterprising 
  young Prentice regained control of his patent by the mid-1930s and 
  set himself up in business as The Electric Game Company.  
        Prentice is seen at right in a photo from around 1995. 

  One of the first products of The Electric 
  Game Company -- perhaps the very first, 
  and among the simplest of all Prentice 
  baseball games -- was Electric Base Ball 
  "version D02," seen here, featuring the 
  "Electric Bat."  Prentice evidently got 
  rights to Parker Brothers' graphics 
  as well.  He told the Union-News that in 
  his first year of production, he sold about 
  a hundred games at five dollars each. 

 Very similar to both the D02 and the Parker 
 Brothers game, another of the earliest varieties 
 of Electric Base Ball was this, "version DD24," 
 also featuring the "Electric Bat."  The "D" and "DD" 
 clearly denoted editions using a single D battery 
 and two D batteries -- perhaps the last obvious 
 indicia in a long list of cryptic Prentice codes.  
       The games were personally assembled by 
 Prentice and a few assistants.  "They all got 35 
 cents an hour," said Prentice, "including me." 

  Prentice saved a little money by providing box lids but no box bottoms 
  for his games, leaving many vendors of second-hand games today to 
  think that one part's missing.  It's not.  Lid, no bottom, that's it.  
        Adding to some latter-day confusion, Electric Game Co. box lids 
  and gameboards do not always match up.  Prentice was not one to 
  waste a nickel, so it's very likely that, even while new gameboard 
  models were being designed, produced, and sold, old box-lid inventory 
  was being used until it was exhausted, and only at that point would 
  new and redesigned box lids be printed.  
        The lid most often associated with the earliest 1930s versions of 
  Electric Base Ball is at left.  Two words on the gameboard, "Baseball"   
  is one word here on the box.  The source of the illustration -- the same 
  batter seen on several other box variations (below) -- remains unknown. 

  Another early-looking version of Prentice 
  electric baseball is Wonder Baseball Game  
  -- a pretty rare number we encountered 
  for the first time only in the spring of 2011
  and is now shoehorned here into this article.  
  The illustrated batter would keep on swinging 
  in later variations of the box lid (below).  

  Not only is Wonder again similar to the early models 
  shown above, the promo literature included in the box 
  (and seen here) trumpets both the Wonder game and 
  Electric Base Ball Model D02, as well as Electric 
  Football, and identifies all as available in 1938.  Oddly, 
  the Wonder gameboard indicates "patent pending," 
  despite the 1928 patent used on much later models. 

  January 2014 yielded a still newer discovery in Electric Baseball research -- 
  the Wonder Baseball variation shown above.  Packaged in a slip-cover sort of box and 
  apparently devoid of battery compartments, control buttons, and lights, this seems to be 
  some kind of non-electric model, perhaps suggesting it's a wartime revision.  

  And then suddenly, variations of this 
  long-forgotten game, or at least of its 
  packaging, start popping up left and right.  
  This specialized "Wonder" version of the 
  well-known red box appeared to us for the 
  first time in the spring of 2014.   

      The promotional paperwork mentioned 
  above establishes 1938 as the origin point 
  for Wonder Baseball Game, but later 
  advertising shows the game was still being 
  produced and marketed through at least 
  1948.  

  Slightly later editions of the lid added the phrase 
  "Big League" above "Electric Baseball" -- all in a 
  new font -- and are in fact usually seen covering 
  Big League Electric Baseball Model B-4, at right, 
  which was produced from about 1938 through 
  1941.  Prentice's All-American Electric Football 
  and Collegiate Electric Basketball also debuted 
  by 1938. 

    Like the earliest versions, the B-4 measures 
    about 16x14" -- the standard dimensions of all 
    Prentice Electric Baseball games until the 
    Super De Luxe editions of the early 1950s. 

  The 1939 advertisement at left shows 
  all three of the sports games cited 
  just above -- and for those of you 
  hankering for a closer look at the 
  young entrepeneur, well, er, um, 
  this pixellated blow-up is the 
  best we can do...  

  A fourth edition of the red box replaces "Big League" 
  with "Jim Prentice."  Likewise the gameboard at right, 
  a subtle and very scarce variation of the previous 
  game.  Jim Prentice Electric Baseball, probably from 
  about 1940, sports a version of the cover illustration 
  on the gameboard itself. 

 The illo occupies space previously used for metal score/count 
 indicators, suggesting that this might be a wartime edition 
 when metal was more urgently needed for the Allied effort.  

    The legend added to this fifth red box variation reads 
    "This Game Operates Electrically Or Mechanically."  In 
    fact, Jim Prentice Electric Baseball Dual Control Model, 
    at right, is a little lighter on the bulbs and wiring and 
    the need for batteries, the first hint that this too is  
    not just post-1940 but a wartime product. 

  Jim Prentice Electric Baseball Dual Control 
  Model, "three knob" version with batter illo 

  Above, a slightly simpler version of 
  Dual Control Model (two knobs, no illo).  
  Almost all models of Electric Baseball 
  carry either the 1928 patent number or 
  are marked "Patent Pending" or "Patent 
  Applied For."  The Dual Control models 
  are exceptions -- confirming not only 
  their 1942 invention, but also that they 
  were not a Prentice design.  George 
  Alderman and Herbert Fredrick were 
  in fact the fellows granted the patent 
  on this gameboard.  

  We don't know if it was Prentice, 
  or Alderman and Fredrick, who 
  had control of the patent, but 
  in any case, it was later licensed 
  to a company called Mastercraft, 
  which produced the game as 
  Prolectric Baseball in 1951.  
  Mastercraft also turned out 
  Prolectric Football and possibly 
  other games in the '50s. 

  Here, two more 1940s variations of Jim Prentice 
  Electric Baseball -- Model E120, above, and a 
  scarce early version of the famous Model 48-B at right, 
  both date to 1947, as suggested by period advertising.  
  Prentice had begun running advertisements in comic 
  books, and it was during this immediate post-War era 
  that the games attained their greatest popularity.  
  "The comics really pulled well," Prentice noted in 
  that Union-News article.  
     As his company prospered, Prentice expanded his 
  manufacturing staff and added what would become a 
  nationwide team of sales reps, while Prentice himself 
  became something of a mover and shaker on the 
  Holyoke business and social scene. 

  With substantial changes to its graphics, but oddly not to its 
  alphanumeric designation, the 48-B (above and below) would 
  become the best-known version of Jim Prentice Baseball.  

  Above, the famous "alligator-finish" white box, the somewhat antique 
  look of which leads many to assume that the associated games are 
  early 1930s vintage.  The cartoon of the swinging batter is in fact based 
  on an early-'30s painting by noted illustrator J. F. Kernan -- the image 
  used in this website's logo -- but this box lid is almost always seen with 
  Models E120, 68-B, 48-B, and 63-B, all verifiably from the late 1940s.  

 
   Jim Prentice Electric Baseball Model 68-B  
  -- a subtle variation on the hugely popular 
  48-B (below).  Both were a departure from 
  previous Prentice designs, not only in their 
  livelier, more colorful graphics, but in that 
  both were more "action games" than the 
  earlier electrical battles of wits.  

  Instantly recognizable to game collectors is Jim Prentice 
  Electric Baseball Model 48-B -- easily the most popular 
  and successful number in the Electric Game Company 
  line, if its availability today on the second-hand market 
  is any indication.  Time the steel ball running down the 
  channel -- hit a home run!  The "48" designation is often 
  assumed to signify a 1948 date of production -- and this 
  is from about that time -- but it's surely only coincidence.  
  A late 1949 ad does show the 48-B as "New for 1950!," 
  which is more likely the case, although then again, art in 
  Electric Game Co ads often depicts previous, alternate, 
  or phantom models.  

  The promo insert in the 1930s Wonder game and the 
  1949 ad for the De Luxe games both show models not 
  (yet) known to exist -- so advertisements, even with a 
  specific date, aren't always reliable indicators of 
  year-of-production.  While some ads can pin down some 
  models to a specific year, putting a date to many others 
  is a matter of guesswork based on typography, graphics, 
  and the associated box lids.  Model 63-B, shown here, 
  seems to be a transitional effort between the 48-B and 
  68-B of the late '40s and the 42-B and 73-B of the early 
  '50s.  It also sports an early version, seen at lower right, 
  of the logo that would reappear from about 1949 on. 

  The curiosity at left, sporting both 1947 and 1949 
  copyrights, is Electro-Vision Baseball, made by 
  Tracies, Inc.  Tracies, Inc., of Holyoke.  Holyoke, 
  home of Prentice and The Electric Game Company.  
  The modest electrical element involved in its gameplay   
  is quite different and much simpler than that of any 
  Prentice game, but it does use the exact same cover 
  image of the swinging batter as that on the Electric 
  Game Company white-box editions of those same 
  years.  Just what the arrangement was with Prentice, 
  we can only guess, but this was not a one-off -- 
  Tracies also produced Electro-Vision Football 
  and several other games.  

  And then in 2021 a visitor to our Forum showed us this -- another 
  Prenticesque game that's not an Electric Game Co product.  
  Flash Toy Co, again a Holyoke entity, is credited as the 1949 
  maker of Junior League Electric Baseball.  Given the similarity 
  between graphic design and method of play, and the Holyoke 
  location of all four companies involved, one can only wonder 
  whether this, the Tracies game above, Mastercraft's Prolectric 
  game (farther above), and the 1960s Jim's LectraMatic game 
  (farther below) had licensed the designs from Prentice, or 
  whether they were ripping him off, or if Prentice was up to 
  something by producing the games himself under pseudonymous 
  companies he'd spun off his familiar Electric Game Company.  

   The playing field of Junior League Electric 
   Baseball, "Model 32J" -- Flash Toy Co, 1949.  
   Ya gotta love the Grants D-cell.  Man, we miss 
   Grants.  It was just about our favourite store 
   when we were kids. 

  With the Electric Game Company at its peak, 
  Prentice introduced a more upscale series of 
  games -- larger, more elaborate, more expensive.  
  The 1949 advert here describes two editions 
  of Super De Luxe Electric Baseball.  The illo 
  seems to be an airbrushed photo of Model 
  Super B, obscuring the battery compartment.   

  Here, Super De Luxe Electric Baseball Model Super 
  B (we think it's "Super B," but maybe it's "Super 8").  
  The Super De Luxe games are among just a handful 
  of Prentice baseball games to carry a non-Prentice 
  patent number -- for this and Model 102 (below), it's 
  Edmund Abrahamson's 1948 patent for the "vibration 
  actuated indicator."  

  
  Presumably also from about 1949, 
  then, is the version of Super 
  De Luxe Electric Baseball shown 
  at left -- Model 102, an impressively 
  massive specimen at 22.25x14.25" 
  and nearly 4" deep.  
  
    Based on the advert shown above,   
  our guess is that the 102 here is the 
  "Varsity Model" and the Super B 
  (above) is the "Deluxe Model," the 
  Super De Luxe Deluxe.  
  Lotsa luxe! 

  Eureka!  At left, Jim Prentice Electric Baseball 
  Model 108-B.  This was a new discovery, 
  presented by a member of our Forum in 2015.  
  We'd never before seen an example of it, and 
  had wondered whether the illustration of it in 
  the 1952 advertisement that used to occupy 
  that spot in this article was again merely an 
  artist's concept -- or an old-stock bit of artwork, 
  since the ad clearly shows the gameboard's 
  more dignified graphics and typography typical 
  of the late-1930s to mid-1940s Prentice games, 
  not the more playful, cartoonish fonts used on 
  post-1950 models.   


        We'll mention here that, by the early 1950s, 
  The Electric Game Company was turning out 
  not just baseball, football, and basketball games, 
  but also Electric Hockey, Electric Bowling, 
  Electric TV Quiz, Electric Put-N-Take, Electric 
  Fire Fighters, Electric Jack Straws, Electric 
  Bunny Run, and more -- most all of them 
  Prentice designs. 

    The box lid for Jim Prentice Electric Baseball 
    Senior Model 66-B has a particularly antique feel -- 
    and its graphics a decidedly amateurish look, which 
    very much appears to be the work of the same hand 
    that produced the cover art for The Electric Game 
    Company's 1945 non-electric Whiz Baseball. 

  The gameboard of Senior Model 66-B, 
  however, looks much more in the style 
  of later, 1950s, Prentice games, so 
  we'd put this as circa 1950. 

  The graphics of the box lid for Jim Prentice Electric Baseball 
  Model 42-B mix the jaunty font seen on Model 63-B with the 
  blocky font from the box for Senior Model 66-B, and indeed, 
  factory stamps on the underside of the gameboard confirm it 
  as a late-1953, early-1954 manufacture.  The pitcher will 
  reappear on the "Motor Action" models later in the '50s. 

 The 42-B is an unusual "low-tech" 
 version, featuring a cardboard 
 gameboard rather than the usual 
 masonite type of material, not 
 to mention a box bottom, too. 

  The same artist responsible for the 42-B box 
  seems to show their hand on this redesign, 
  used for the 73-B models (right and below).  
  Prentice redesigned the game yet again, too, 
  of course, introducing a series of slightly larger 
  (18.5x14"), horizontally-oriented gameboards.  

  Above, Jim Prentice Electric Baseball Model 73-B, one of four similar 
  editions produced in and around 1953.  This example provides 
  no "storage" holes for the baserunner pegs. 

      Jim Prentice Electric Baseball Model 73-B - variation with peg storage 

                        Jim Prentice Electric Baseball Model 73BN 

  Although -- apologies -- the evidence is not much better than 
  that of a blurry photo of a passing UFO, this variation of 
  Model 73BN appears to use only an electrical cord rather 
  than batteries.  The accompanying shipping box labels it 
  "No. 70 Deluxe." 

 Jim Prentice Electric Baseball 5 Star ***** Model 509 -- clearly related to the 
 73-B and 73BN models, but with even more bells and whistles and blinkenlights, 
 and using a 500-series code associated with the later "Motor Action" games. 

    This heavier corrugated white box, probably more often used for shipping 
    mail-order games, is associated with models 73-B, 73BN, and 509 (above).  

 Another sturdy corrugated box contained the scarce 
 Jim Prentice Electric Baseball Model 79-B.  The box 
 is at least a trifle wider than the previous example, 
 and we've been informed it is indeed yellow, not 
 white and merely lit to appear yellow. 

 Although a more recent number, Jim Prentice 
 Electric Baseball Model 79-B is a tough find today. 

  The corrugated white box is stretched even wider 
  to accommodate the scarce version of Jim Prentice 
  Electric Baseball shown at right.  We haven't been 
  hands-on with this variation, so we're uncertain of the 
  model number, three characters beginning with "10." 
  A 1955 ad, however, establishes a date for it. 

  The pitcher from Model 42-B makes a comeback on 
  the corrugated shipping box for Electric Motor 
  Baseball Model M-100, probably mid-to-late 1950s.  

         Electric Motor Baseball Model M-100 

    The 42-B pitcher kicks for one last delivery, 
    here on the store-model box for Jim Prentice 
    Electric Motor Action Baseball Model 514, 
    probably late 1950s, possibly circa 1960.  The 
    box aprons also call this "Dual Control Model." 
    The 514 is the only other version of Electric 
    Baseball we've seen, besides the 1940s Dual 
    Control models and the 1949 Super Deluxe, 
    bearing a non-Prentice patent.  

  
  Jim Prentice Electric Motor Action 
  Baseball Model 514, above.  The 
  design, much altered by Prentice, 
  was granted in 1954 to Harry 
  Hutchins. 

  The 17x12" gameboard of Jim Prentice Electric 
  Baseball Model 504 is very similar to that of 
  models 514 and 505 and the earlier M-100, but 
  the box graphics have a new look with more of 
  an early '60s feel.  There's a resemblance 
  to the artwork in Ed-U-Cards' 1957 Baseball 
  Card Game, but the identity of the artist 
  or artists is unknown.  

  Jim Prentice Electric Baseball 
  Model 504 - circa 1960 

 
  The more modern graphics of the store box for 
  Model 504 are seen again here on the corrugated 
  shipping box for Model 505 at right, very likely 
  also a late-'50s, early '60s item.  It's almost 
  certainly this 500 series that, unfortunately, 
  marked the final innings for Electric Baseball. 

 Jim Prentice Electric Baseball Model 505 

  But hold everything!  
  The game's not over yet!  
  The remarkable thing at right -- a 
  previously unknown "action" game   
  featuring a spring-loaded bat on a 
  vacuum-formed plastic gameboard   
  -- showed up in the spring of 2014.  
  The plastic construction, as well 
  as a radical departure in both 
  method of play and in box and 
  board graphics, strongly suggests 
  this is no older than a 1960s 
  version.  

 
 At a few points in this article, we've made reference to advertisements that aren't actually displayed on this page.  
 That's due in large part to having discovered those ads long after this article was written, combined with the sad fact  
 that we're too darned lazy to rearrange the whole page layout here to accommodate presenting those ads, beyond 
 just adding a few words to suggest the ads exist.  But, also, those ads are worth seeing close to full size, and 
 there may be still more ads yet to be found and then to be added as well, so we're inserting this little list of links, 
 each of which opens a new page containing a full-sized vintage advertisement for some version of Electric Baseball:  

 Electric Baseball and Electric Football, 1937
 Big League Electric Baseball and others, 1941
 Jim Prentice Electric Baseball Model E120, 1947
 Jim Prentice Electric Baseball Model 48 B (early variation), 1947
 Wonder Baseball Game, Johnson-Smith catalogue, 1948
 Jim Prentice Electric Baseball Model 48 B (early variation), 1949
 Super De Luxe Electric Baseball, 1949 
 Super De Luxe Electric Baseball, 1949 
 Jim Prentice Electric Baseball Model 48-B, ad from Lady Luck August 1950
 Jim Prentice Electric Baseball Model 73-B ("77B" on order form), 1951 
 Jim Prentice Electric Baseball Model 108-B, 1952  
 Jim Prentice Electric Baseball Model 73-B, 1953 
 Jim Prentice Electric Baseball, Model 10... ?, 1955 

 Some newspaper accounts tell that Prentice had sold 
 the company and retired from the game and toy business 
 before 1960, but there's clear evidence that Prentice, 
 the Electric Game Company, and its nationwide sales 
 force were all going strong at the 1961 New York Toy Fair, 
 even introducing their new Electric Speedway auto-race 
 game while still hawking the rest of their line of games.  
 Prentice did sell the business at some point in the 1960s 
 -- but it's uncertain whether Jim's LectraMatic Baseball 
 by "Jim's LectraMatic Games," roughly similar to the late 
 1940s' "Super De Luxe" models, and sporting typical 
 Prentice pennant motifs as well as carrying some Jim's 
 name, was the product of an entirely different outfit or a 
 final swing by Prentice with his own company renamed.  

  Jim's LectraMatic Baseball 
  Model 2000 -- 
  Jim's LectraMatic Games, 1960s 

  Jim Prentice Electric Baseball 
  Model BB-150 

 
 
  But wait!  There are still a couple 
  more items of interest for Electric 
  Game Company completists. 

  Prentice's electrical baseball games 
  were not limited to the boardgame 
  format.  At left is Model BB-150, 
  a baseball-themed pinball game 
  measuring about 25x15x11", and 
  above, the backglass with an 
  alternate yellow frame.  The only 
  clue we have as to its date of 
  production is the presence of 
  the Electric Game Company logo 
  that first appeared around 1949 
  and remained through the 1950s. 

  And there was also this non-electric entry, from 1945 -- 
  Whiz Baseball.  The artwork and yellow box are rather 
  reminiscent of that for Senior Model 66-B.  We await the 
  umpire's signal, but we suspect that awkward-looking 
  delivery may constitute a balk.  
        The red bits seen on the gameboard at right are 
  not lightbulbs, but wooden pegs.  A small top placed on 
  the inclined lower sixth of the board was spun with the 
  fingers, and the pegs it knocked over and the holes in 
  which it landed determined the result of each play -- 
  similar to Milton Bradley's much smaller 1957 version 
  of Swat Baseball. 

 Whiz Baseball Model W200, 1945 
 -- approximately 19.5x11.5" 

  Oh, hey, maybe the pitcher on the lid is this guy... 
 

  Many years of research -- well, okay, a few minutes of research here and there   
  over the course of many years -- have not solved many a mystery surrounding 
  Jim Prentice and Electric Baseball.  Our chronology of the games is still only 
  a working theory.  And our list of Electric Baseball models is still probably 
  incomplete -- we have a report of a Model 88-B, a game for which we have yet 
  to see any other evidence, and illustrated advertisements hint at the existence 
  of other uncatalogued models.  We can state that game parts and adverts 
  show at least ten different Holyoke addresses for the Electric Game Company 
  -- eight different just from 1947 to 1953. 

  And what of the man himself?  It's tough to suss Prentice when so little has actually 
  been written about him, leaving us to scour for factoids and to read between the lines, 
  a risky prospect when all the available articles were written very late in Prentice's 
  long life, several of those pieces read like amateur items in your local Pennysaver, 
  and most of them clearly struggle badly to find a happy spin to put on Prentice's life 
  and career.  We'd like to picture Prentice as the stereotype of the kindly inventor -- 
  modest, cerebral, quietly good-humored.  A bit of that comes through in one solid 
  1996 profile by Bill Stephens of the Union-News -- "I was born an inventor," Prentice 
  told him, "but that doesn't mean you're real good, you know."  
        On the other hand, Prentice admits to being a harsh boss, claiming to have fired 
  14 of every 15 employees he hired.  And he sounds petty in his snide ridicule of the 
  much more successful Tudor Tru-Action Electric Football.  Then again, while almost 
  every one of the articles notes how sharp Prentice is at his age, he forgets that he 
  produced about half a dozen electric football games of his own, and when confronted 
  with an edition of Electric Baseball, Prentice says "To be honest, I can't even tell you 
  exactly how this works now." 
        He may have had an excuse for forgetfulness, but if indeed Prentice was bitter, 
  there seems little reason for it.  His 1940 marriage lasted 55 years and produced 
  some number of daughters.  An active Rotarian, he also served as president of the 
  Holyoke Boys' Club.  He served as president of the Toy Manufacturers Association.  
  He appears to have engaged in a long-running scientific correspondence with the 
  engineering department at UC Berkeley.  In 1993, in recognition of his lifelong 
  contributions to gaming, he was presented with the Abbot Award by the American 
  Game Collectors Association, now the AGPC.   
        One personal disappointment for Prentice may have been that his creation of 
  the "Batting Worth Average," a clutch-hitter rating that long prefigured the works of 
  Bill James, did not grab the interest of fans or MLB.  He did remain active almost 
  to the end, however.  He started the Durmatic Company -- renamed PrenCo in 1980 
  -- successfully manufacturing disposable bibs for use with toddlers and geriatric 
  patients, and ran that into the late 1990s.  As the 20th century neared its close, 
  he ventured into successful production of a redesigned golf tee and toyed with 
  other inventions like an electrical flyswatter.  Alas, for Prentice, the batteries 
  finally ran out, so to speak, in January 2005. 

 
 Prentice is seen above 
 in a photo from around 
 1995. 
       Once again, we 
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