Baseball's Hall of Fame

My father and I visited the National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York last week. This was my first visit to Cooperstown. You may CLICK HERE to view my photos from the trip. You can also click on any of the photos below to view an enlarged image.

I captured this photo of Doubleday Field. Legend has it that baseball was invented on or near this site.

The Hall of Fame is a "shrine" to baseball. Hopefully, this photo conveys the almost church-like environment inside the building:

Finally, I spent quite a bit of time reading the plaques for the individuals inducted into the Hall of Fame. CLICK HERE to view photos of some of my favorite individual plaques--including the First Class (the first five players inducted into the Hall of Fame): Babe Ruth, Christy Mattewson, Walter Johnson, Ty Cobb and Honus Wagner. I also included photos of the plaques of three of the players who we discuss often during practices: Fergie Jenkins, Ted Williams and Jackie Robinson. I pulled three of the plaques from the Chicago Cubs' famous double play combination and combined it with a popular poem from the times into Photoshop to create this poster: