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"Baseball is at the core of our national life, and the Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum is the game's national shrine, the repository of its heritage."So begins this tour of the treasures of the Hall of Fame.Every baseball fan knows that Cooperstown stands for the best of the history and tradition of the great game.For those fans who visit this village in upstate New York--400,000 make the pilgrimage annually--and for those who cannot get there, John Thorn, baseball's foremost historian, has selected the Hall of Fame's most important artifacts.He has written about each piece and what it represents in the larger context of the game's history, and David Jordano has meticulously and lovingly photographed these treasures, capturing their essence perfectly. In words and pictures, Treasures of the Baseball Hall of Fame spans the whole of baseball's history from its semi-mythical beginnings through successive ages of legends and giants all the way to today's heroes. A lithographic panorama of a game from the 1860s at the Elysian Fields in Hoboken, home of the New York Knickerbockers, begins the Time Line that runs through the book. It includes mementos of the Cincinnati Red Stockings of 1

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Author

Thorn, John, 1947-

Publisher

Villard, c1998.

Published

1998

Language

EN

ISBN

9780375501432

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Sports, Anthropology, History

Rating

5 / 5 (7 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14