Hall of Fame
From BR Bullpen
The full name of the Hall of Fame is the Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum. It is located in Cooperstown, New York. The Hall was dedicated in 1939. It is one of the oldest Halls of Fame in the country.
Currently, The Hall of Fame is made up of the museum, where notable baseball memorabilia is on display, the actual Hall of Fame, where plaques of inductees are displayed, and a library.
The Hall is open daily 9 AM to 9 PM in the summer and 9 AM to 5 PM in the off-season. It is closed on Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Years Day.
In addition, to inducting players, managers, pioneers, and executives into the Hall of Fame. The Hall also awards the J.G. Taylor Spink Award to newspaper writers and the Ford Frick Award to broadcasters. Winners of these awards are not technically Hall of Famers, but they are recognized as having reached the pinnacle of their profession.
[edit] Further Reading
- Thomas Boswell: "The Fourth Dimension: Baseball and Memory", in Why Time Begins on Opening Day, Penguin Books, New York, NY, 1984, pp. 247-262.
- David L. Fleitz: Ghosts in the Gallery at Cooperstown: Sixteen Little-Known Members of the Hall of Fame, McFarland, Jefferson, NC, 2004.
- David L. Fleitz: More Ghosts in the Gallery: Another Sixteen Little-Known Greats at Cooperstown, McFarland, Jefferson, NC, 2007.
- Bill James: Whatever Happened to the Hall of Fame?, Fireside Books, New York, NY, 1994 (also known as The Politics of Glory)
- Jim Reisler: A Great Day in Cooperstown: The Miraculous and Unlikely Beginning of the Baseball Hall of Fame, Carroll & Graf Publishers, New York, NY, 2006.
