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Baseball Hall of Fame and Doubleday Field | July 20
Cooperstown, Tim’s take
It could be said that the very core of baseball is statistics. Statistics make the season go around. Statistics demand salaries and separate the winners from the losers. At the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York, statistics do something that they were never meant to do. They squeeze tears out of people for no apparent reason.
The MLB Trip Team spent nine hours crunching numbers and memorizing pictures.
Nine hours of constantly feeling the same as when Crash Davis gets released by the Durham Bulls or when Moonlight Graham crosses the foul line.
Or maybe it wasn’t that dramatic.
When we pulled into Cooperstown, the sun was rising over the hilltops of Cherry Valley. The Hall of Fame is tucked away nearby. The team managed to get a few hours sleep before making our way to the museum.
After going through the turnstile, there is an entrance room with the All Century Team. Just beyond, and in the next room, there is a glimpse of the Hall of Fame Gallery. The actual room filled with plaques immortalizing baseball’s greats. The pamphlet that comes with the entrance ticket suggests not going there just yet. That glimpse is just a taste of what’s in store if you save that until the end. Taking the advice of the pamphlet, the team roamed the halls of the museum absorbing the information that is baseball’s history.
Belt buckles, rings, baseballs, bats, scorecards, shoes and every other type of baseball memorabilia imaginable are displayed in the museum.
Personal favorites:
Displays of old stadiums
Baseball Cards
Negro League Baseball
Research Center
Baseball Writers Hall of Fame
Baseball Movies
There was so much to see at the Hall of Fame. After nine hours we saw almost everything, but it would have been an easy nine hours to do it again.
Mike’s
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