About Us

Tony Schneider President & Get-On-Deck™ Inventor "We hope you enjoy the game!"

Our Mission:
We design Nostalgic games that encourage parents, children, grandparents, families and friends of all ages to enjoy and create a lifetime of memories!

Our Philosophy:
Board games encourage adult and child interaction and combine various elements of chance, strategy, intellectual challenge, competition and social interaction. Games can be used as a teaching tool for early child development (virtues of patience, rotating turns and following directions) and what more exciting way is there than to be educated by playing the game of baseball, America’s most highly regarded pastime!

Guarantee:
We hope you enjoy Get-On-Deck™, a Nostalgic Baseball board game with your family and friends!

Why a Baseball Board Game:
2 Reasons Really!

As a youth growing up in a small town in Rural Iowa (Bancroft, IA), playing baseball was not only an impressionable sport for youths to look up to the high school baseball players as role models, but also a local town and family tradition with the likes of “lefty” Joe Hatten and Dennis Menke who eventually played in the major leagues! My father also played baseball for Bancroft and donned the St. John’s uniform (wool & loose fitting) as a youth and was a crafty pitcher with several offers from the big leagues after returning from WWII in 1946. Then some 20+ years later my brothers and sisters followed in his footsteps, playing for St. John’s under the same coach, VJ Meyer who later retired (1981) as one of the most successful coaches in Iowa High School Baseball History!

In Bancroft, when there was a high school baseball game everyone attended. Starting out as a youth I volunteered for various duties at the ballpark, first was shagging the foul balls that went out of the ballpark and into neighboring streets and lawns. The pay wasn’t bad at $.25 per ball, usually good for a soda and popcorn, however, it was more than just for the money, it was for the competitive spirit of personally handing the ball back to the coach (VJ Meyer) that got you promoted to the next job at the ballpark and that was the opportunity to keep score on the scoreboard just beyond the fence in right-center field.

I remember carrying the stacks of painted tile numbers around the outside of the ballpark fence, through the cornfield behind the outfield wall and up a steep, not so safe, ladder to land yourself on a 2X12 the length of the scoreboard for at least the next 7 innings! It was smooth sailing from there unless of course you forgot the score during the ½ inning! Up next was a promotion to bat boy every kids dream at the time because you not only got to travel with the team to away games, but also first dibs on any broken bats(all bats were wood back then) and nothing that a few small nails and tape couldn’t fix! Entering High School, I landed the job at the old ballpark as the groundskeeper, a sweet deal at the time, learning all the past secrets to “home cooking” as we called it and then passing them on to the next generation.

It was those memories of growing up as a youth in a baseball community, as well as, later becoming that player for the next set of youths to look up to that has inspired the creation of Get-On-Deck into the game it is today - a Nostalgic Baseball game-board with dugout, bat-rack and an authentic scoreboard (with number tiles) wooden bats and old style uniforms, much the way I remember it!

I mentioned two reasons for the creation of Get-On-Deck™, the second reason for
Get-On-Deck™ was an inspiration from my family and especially my nephew Brett, for if it wasn’t for him, we probably would not have created a indoor baseball game for interacting with family, thanks Brett! You see, in school some of us are accused of daydreaming, but we are really just planning our future!