Museum News

New Hall of Famer Barry Larkin will lead an MLB International Elite Camp in February in Brazil. (Brad Mangin/NBHOF Library)

Major League Baseball International (MLBI), in cooperation with the Confederation of Brazilian Baseball & Softball (CBBS), will conduct an MLBI Elite Camp, led by Baseball Hall of Fame Electee Barry Larkin, in Brazil this February.

The Hall of Fame's Brad Horn shows off artifacts from the 2011 World Series to Museum visitors on Monday. (Milo Stewart Jr./National Baseball Hall of Fame)

Watch a video of the World Series Artifact Spotlight

COOPERSTOWN, N.Y. – The infield dirt on the front of David Freese's jersey – where the World Series Most Valuable Player slid into third base on his game-tying Game 6 triple – sullied the iconic Cardinals logo.

The smudges from line drives were clearly visible on Lance Berkman's bat.

And the grass stains clung to Albert Pujols' spikes... The ones he wore to en route to a record 14 total bases in Game 3.

The Lehigh Valley IronPigs and their manager Hall of Famer Ryne Sandberg (top far left) visited the Hall of Fame Wednesday. (Milo Stewart Jr./Hall of Fame)

COOPERTSOWN, N.Y. – Led by a member of the national pastime's most exclusive fraternity, almost two dozen Lehigh Valley IronPigs could be found roaming the corridors of the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum on Wednesday afternoon, awed by their historic surroundings.

Three centuries of cricket bats are included in the cricket exhibit, Swinging Away. (Marylebone Cricket Club)

The chatter was like that of any group of baseball fans – exchanges focusing on batting, pitching and fielding.

But on Saturday at the Baseball Hall of Fame, many of those fans were talking about baseball's distant cousin, cricket, and the Museum's new Swinging Away exhibit that celebrates the relationship of the two sports.

From Left: Jane Forbes Clark, Jeff Idelson, Joe Morgan, Thomas Tull, Alba Tull, Phil Niekro, Cal Ripken, Tom Shieber and Dan Wallis. (Milo Stewart Jr.)

View a press release about the exhibit

View a photo gallery of the exhibit opening

With three of the game's greatest players on hand, the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum's newest exhibit, One for the Books: Baseball Records and the Stories Behind Them, opened to the public on Saturday.

From left: Jason Schiellack, Ken Gallinger, Robert Mahon, Nick Ross, Marc Brindle, Jeff Idelson (Craig Muder/National Baseball Hall of Fame Library)

COOPERSTOWN, NY – Ken Gallinger has visited the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum regularly for the past 20 years. But when the Ormstown, Quebec, resident entered the Museum at 3:48 p.m. on Friday, his annual trip to Cooperstown became a part of Hall of Fame history.

Gallinger became the Museum's 15 millionth visitor since the Museum first opened its doors on June 12, 1939, when he entered with his Museum Membership card in hand, just days before the Museum's 72nd birthday.

Duke Snider was elected to the Hall of Fame in 1980.

Hall of Fame press release

Watch Duke's 1980 Induction Speech

COOPERSTOWN, N.Y. – In the 1950s, three future Hall of Famers played center field for New York ball clubs: Willie Mays for the Giants, Mickey Mantle for the Yankees and Duke Snider for the Brooklyn Dodgers.

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