Modern writings have often suggested that How Brown Saw the Baseball Game was produced as Lubin Manufacturing Company's alternative to the Edwin S. Porter-directed comedy How the Office Boy Saw the Ball Game,[11] a film released by Edison Studios in 1906[14] about an office employee sneaking out of his workplace to watch a baseball game only to discover his employer in a nearby seat.[3] Lubin Manufacturing Company was known for creating films similar to competing motion pictures made by other studios.