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The National Baseball Hall of Fame Museum in Cooperstown - click on image to view gallery


My first visit to the Baseball Hall of Fame was with my in-laws at the time and my father who was visiting them in the summer in the early 1970's. We drove up from Vestal, New York in the early morning and we had a very nice day at the Hall of Fame and Cooperstown. My father was an ardent fan of baseball and he followed his favorite teams throughout every season. Consequently I was a big baseball fan as a kid but after he stopped me from playing on a team at O'Quinn Park in Hialeah I kind of lost interest in baseball. He didn't want me crossing Red Road on a bike because it was two lane, curvy and dangerous at the time (late 1950's) but he effectively killed any career in baseball for me. Nevertheless, he thought he died and went to heaven when he actually got to visit Cooperstown and the Baseball Hall of Fame. At the time the exhibits were scattered in old wooden buildings and not in a modern structure like today's museum. Maybe someday I will find the photos that I took back then and post them in this gallery.


June 2015 - the entrance to the National Baseball Hall of Fame Museum
June 2015 - the entrance to the National Baseball Hall of Fame Museum		 June 2015 - Hank Aaron exhibit at the National Baseball Hall of Fame Museum
June 2015 - Hank Aaron exhibit at the National Baseball Hall of Fame Museum		 June 2015 - Babe Ruth clippings at the National Baseball Hall of Fame Museum
June 2015 - Babe Ruth clippings at the National Baseball Hall of Fame Museum		 June 2015 - the African-American baseball experience at the National Baseball Hall of Fame Museum
June 2015 - the African-American baseball experience at the National Baseball Hall of Fame Museum		 June 2015 - Diamond Dreams display at the National Baseball Hall of Fame Museum
June 2015 - Diamond Dreams display at the National Baseball Hall of Fame Museum
June 2015 - Cuban, Dominican and Puerto Rican baseball players exhibit at the National Baseball Hall of Fame Museum
June 2015 - Cuban, Dominican and Puerto Rican baseball players exhibit at the National Baseball Hall of Fame Museum		 June 2015 - photo of Yankees team United DC-4 (not a jet) and baseball players
June 2015 - photo of Yankees team United DC-4 (not a jet) and baseball players		 June 2015 - The Mighty Babe (1976) painting by Robert A. Thom at the National Baseball Hall of Fame Museum
June 2015 - "The Mighty Babe" (1976) painting by Robert A. Thom at the National Baseball Hall of Fame Museum		 June 2015 - the Hall of Fame inside the National Baseball Hall of Fame Museum
June 2015 - the Hall of Fame inside the National Baseball Hall of Fame Museum		 June 2015 - 1937 and 1939 player plaques in the Baseball Hall of Fame
June 2015 - 1937 and 1939 player plaques in the Baseball Hall of Fame
June 2015 - the 1936 first class of inductees into the Baseball Hall of Fame
June 2015 - the 1936 first class of inductees into the Baseball Hall of Fame		 June 2015 - Babe Ruth plaque in the first class of inductees into the Baseball Hall of Fame
June 2015 - Babe Ruth plaque in the first class of inductees into the Baseball Hall of Fame		 June 2015 - Christy Mathewson plaque in the first class of inductees into the Baseball Hall of Fame
June 2015 - Christy Mathewson plaque in the first class of inductees into the Baseball Hall of Fame		 June 2015 - Ty Cobb plaque in the first class of inductees into the Baseball Hall of Fame
June 2015 - Ty Cobb plaque in the first class of inductees into the Baseball Hall of Fame		 June 2015 - Honus Wagner plaque in the first class of inductees into the Baseball Hall of Fame
June 2015 - Honus Wagner plaque in the first class of inductees into the Baseball Hall of Fame
June 2015 - Walter Perry Johnson plaque in the first class of inductees into the Baseball Hall of Fame
June 2015 - Walter Perry Johnson plaque in the first class of inductees into the Baseball Hall of Fame		 June 2015 - the Hall of Fame inside the National Baseball Hall of Fame Museum
June 2015 - the Hall of Fame inside the National Baseball Hall of Fame Museum		 June 2015 - statues of Lou Gehring, Jackie Robinson and Roberto Clemente at the National Baseball Hall of Fame Museum
June 2015 - statues of Lou Gehring, Jackie Robinson and Roberto Clemente at the National Baseball Hall of Fame Museum

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