National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum

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... Wikipedia

  • Established:  1936 (Baseball), Dedicated June 12, 1939
  • Location:  Cooperstown, New York, U.S.
  • Type:  Professional sports hall of fame
  • Key holdings:  August Herrmann Papers, Gene Mack Cartoons, Roger Kahn Papers, Federal League Litigation
  • Collections:  Photo Archive, National Baseball Hall of Fame Library (Manuscripts, Books, Publications), Recorded Media Collection, Artifact Collection
  • Collection size:  250,000 photographs, 14,000 hours of moving images and sound recordings, 40,000 three-dimensional artifacts
  • Visitors:  260,000/year, (average as of 2018)
  • Founder:  Stephen Carlton Clark
  • President:  Josh Rawitch (since 2021)
  • Chairperson:  Jane Forbes Clark, (Board of Directors)
  • Curator:  Tom Shieber, (Senior Curator)
  • Website:  baseballhall.org
  • Data Source:  DuckDuckGo