Macguffin Co. Launches "Tearing Up the Pea Patch," a Vintage Baseball Card Game Where the Legends Add Up
New browser-based game turns real career statistics into stat poker, complete with multiplayer Pennant Matches, shareable challenge links, and portraits drawn entirely from the numbers
SEATTLE, Wash. — August 25, 2026 — Macguffin Co., the media-franchise development studio, today announced the launch of Tearing Up the Pea Patch, a card game of baseball statistics played with the real career stats of historical major league hitters. The game is free to play in any browser at tearingupthepeapatch.com — no app, no account, and no download required.
In each hand, players are dealt nine ballplayers of record — a full lineup — and refine it through four descending draw rounds, trading up to four cards, then three, then two, then one. The nine they hold when the drawing ends is judged under a rotating “pennant rule,” from most combined home runs to a blackjack-style bust line, and graded against every possible nine in the deal. The nine careers are then combined into a single composite batting line, and the game names the real historical career that combination most resembles. that combination most resembles.
"Every kid who ever flipped a baseball card over has already played this game in their head — we just built the ballpark for it," said Jeff Belle, CEO of Macguffin Co. "The back of a baseball card is the greatest dataset in American culture. Tearing Up the Pea Patch turns those numbers back into play: you hold five careers in your hand, and the game tells you which legend you just reinvented."
"Every kid who ever flipped a baseball card over has already played this game in their head — we just built the ballpark for it," said Jeff Belle, CEO of Macguffin Co. "The back of a baseball card is the greatest dataset in American culture. Tearing Up the Pea Patch turns those numbers back into play: you hold nine careers in your hand — a whole lineup — and the game tells you which legend you just reinvented."
The launch includes Pennant Matches, a multiplayer mode for two to four players in variants named for the outs required to win — 9, 18, or 27. Every player at the table receives the identical deal, so skill alone separates the field. Hand winners collect outs from their opponents and hit for singles, doubles, triples, or home runs based on margin of victory, generating genuine batting averages and slugging percentages tracked across a player's full career of matches. Solo players can also compress an entire completed game into a shareable challenge link roughly seventy characters long, which replays their exact deal on a rival's device.
The game features an original visual identity in the style of 1910 tobacco cards. In place of photography, each player card carries embroidered initials over a "stat fingerprint" — a twelve-ray star drawn from that player's own career rates for power, average, contact, walks, speed, and durability. No two players in the game share the same shape.
The name honors radio broadcasting legend Red Barber, whose signature call for a team on a hot streak — "tearin' up the pea patch" — gave the franchise both its title and its pea-vine iconography.
Tearing Up the Pea Patch joins Macguffin Co.'s growing portfolio of original entertainment franchises and is available for licensing inquiries across publishing, tabletop, and media formats.
About Macguffin Co.Macguffin Co. is a media-franchise development studio that creates and validates original entertainment IP — spanning games, books, and puzzle brands — before licensing those properties to publishing and media partners. Learn more at macguffin.co.
