National Baseball Hall of Fame Web Site

The National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum preserves history, honors excellence and connects generations. An independent, not-for-profit educational institution dedicated to fostering an appreciation of the historical development of baseball and its impact on our culture, the Hall of Fame was established in Cooperstown, New York in 1939 as the definitive repository of The Game's treasures. Comprised of the Museum, with over 35,000 artifacts, and the Library and Archive, which houses more than 2.6 million documents, recordings, and photographs, the Hall of Fame exhibits and interprets its vast collections for a global audience. The Hall of Fame also bestows the highest individual honor awarded to players of our national pastime by marking their achievements with a plaque in the Hall of Fame Gallery. For more information on the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum, please call 888-HALL-OF-FAME, or visit their Web site. To learn more about the exhibition and its national tour, please visit BaseballAsAmerica.org.

Companion Publication: Baseball As America

The exhibition is accompanied by Baseball As America, a major publication published by the National Geographic Society. Illustrated with images of objects in the exhibition as well as historical photographs, the book—320 pages with 200 illustrations—explores the themes of the exhibition and features 45 newly commissioned and 30 classic essays, commentaries, and literature from a wide spectrum of writers, commentators, scholars and humorists.