As the entry door swings closed behind them, visitors to the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum immediately turn their gaze – through a picture window – into the Plaque Gallery. It’s the altar ...

Russ Hodges’ iconic call of Bobby Thomson’s iconic home run is perhaps the most famous sports broadcast in American history. And though Hodges and his broadcaster partner that day Ernie Harwell are ...

On select Fridays this Fall, you can enjoy engaging programs at the Hall of Fame through the Fall Friday Programming Series.

Mike Piazza went from 62nd round draft pick to becoming one of the greatest hitting catchers in the game's history. Mike Piazza went from 62nd round draft pick to becoming one of the greatest hitting ...

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Rube Foster excelled on the diamond as a pitcher, manager and as an executive, earning him the recognition as the “father of black baseball.” Few men have dominant careers as baseball players. Even ...

The business of baseball, with some minor exceptions, was largely controlled by management for almost 100 years. Marvin Miller changed that. Miller served as the executive director for the Major ...

Wendell Smith developed into a quality young pitcher on his way to professional ball until a fateful day in 1933. At nineteen years old, Smith pitched a shutout for his integrated American Legion team ...

The numbers are mostly gone, lost forever among the echoes of the Negro Leagues. But Leroy "Satchel" Paige, maybe the greatest pitcher baseball ever knew, lives on in the stories of the men who hit – ...

Ulysses “Frank” Grant was perhaps the best of the African-American players who played in organized baseball in the 1880s. “Were it not for the fact that he is a colored man, he would without a doubt ...

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He had already accomplished just about everything a pitcher can in the major leagues, putting him well on his way to Cooperstown. A no-hitter, however, always seemed to elude Tom Seaver. But in 1978, ...