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National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum

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National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum
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The Hall of Fame in 2020
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Established1936 (1936) (Baseball)
Dedicated June 12, 1939
LocationCooperstown, New York, U.S.
Coordinates42°42′0″N 74°55′24″W / 42.70000°N 74.92333°W / 42.70000; -74.92333
TypeProfessional sports hall of fame
Key holdings
[1]
Collections
  • Photo Archive
  • National Baseball Hall of Fame Library (Manuscripts, Books, Publications)
  • Recorded Media Collection
  • Artifact Collection
[1]
Collection size
  • 250,000 photographs
  • 14,000 hours of moving images and sound recordings
  • 40,000 three-dimensional artifacts
[1]
Visitors260,000/year
(average as of 2018)[2]
FounderStephen Carlton Clark
PresidentJosh Rawitch[3] (since 2021)
ChairpersonJane Forbes Clark[3]
(Board of Directors)
CuratorTom Shieber[3]
(Senior Curator)
Websitebaseballhall.org

The National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum is a history museum and hall of fame in Cooperstown, New York, operated by private interests. It serves as the central point of the history of baseball in the United States and displays baseball-related artifacts and exhibits, honoring those who have excelled in playing, managing, and serving the sport. The Hall's motto is "Preserving History, Honoring Excellence, Connecting Generations". Cooperstown is often used as shorthand (or a metonym) for the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum.

The Hall of Fame was established in 1939 by Stephen Carlton Clark, an heir to the Singer Sewing Machine fortune. Clark sought to bring tourists to the village hurt by the Great Depression, which reduced the local tourist trade, and Prohibition, which devastated the local hops industry. Clark constructed the Hall of Fame's building, which was dedicated on June 12, 1939. (His granddaughter, Jane Forbes Clark, is the current chairman of the board of directors.) The erroneous claim that Civil War hero Abner Doubleday invented baseball in Cooperstown was instrumental in the early marketing of the Hall.

An expanded library and research facility opened in 1994.[4] Dale Petroskey became the organization's president in 1999.[5] In 2002, the Hall launched Baseball as America, a traveling exhibit that toured ten American museums over six years. The Hall of Fame has since also sponsored educational programming on the Internet to bring the Hall of Fame to schoolchildren who might not visit. The Hall and Museum completed a series of renovations in spring 2005. The Hall of Fame also presents an annual exhibit at FanFest at the Major League Baseball All-Star Game.

  1. ^ a b c "Archive and Collection". Baseball Hall of Fame. Archived from the original on March 27, 2019. Retrieved January 23, 2019.
  2. ^ "Hall of Fame Welcomes 17 Millionth Visitor". Baseball Hall of Fame. Archived from the original on June 12, 2022. Retrieved February 18, 2019.
  3. ^ a b c "President and Senior Staff". Baseball Hall of Fame. Archived from the original on June 24, 2021. Retrieved June 1, 2021.
  4. ^ "Museum History". National Baseball Hall of Fame. Archived from the original on July 4, 2017. Retrieved October 21, 2017.
  5. ^ The Official Site of Major League Baseball: News: HOF president Petroskey resigns Archived March 27, 2008, at the Wayback Machine from the Major League Baseball website

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