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The National Baseball Hall Of Fame
Published or Updated July 23, 2018
Location: United States
Sport: Baseball
Level: Professional
Sport: Baseball
Level: Professional
Event Type: Hall Of Fame
First Held: 1939
Next Up: 7/27/2018-7/30/2018
First Held: 1939
Next Up: 7/27/2018-7/30/2018
When and Where: year round in Cooperstown, NY
The hallowed halls of the National Baseball Hall of Fame are nestled amongst idyllic, gently rolling hills cut by glaciers millions of years ago – leaving a sense of history appropriate to the house that holds the last living impressions and greatest collection of memorabilia associated with baseball’s great ones.
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In 1936, the first five players were inducted into the Hall of Fame: Ty Cobb, Babe Ruth, Honus Wagner, Christy Mathewson, and Walter Johnson.
In 1962, Jackie Robinson, the first African-American baseball player, became the first black inductee into the Hall of Fame.
Stephen Clark dedicated the Hall of Fame in Cooperstown in 1939 in order to promote tourism to the area devastated by the Great Depression.
Through 2012, 297 individuals have been inducted, including 236 players, 20 managers, 9 umpires, and 32 executives.
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Bill Bryson
For those of us who are baseball fans and agnostics, the Hall of Fame is as close to a religious experience as we may ever get.
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