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As the San Francisco Giants celebrate their first World Series championship, treasures from the baseball's most memorable moments from the 2010 postseason are now on display in the Autumn Glory exhibit at the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in Cooperstown.
Following the Giants' World Series-clinching win on Nov. 1, the Museum acquired nearly a dozen artifacts from the both the Giants and the Texas Rangers. Artifacts donated by the Giants from the 106th World Series include:
COOPERSTOWN, N.Y. – Pete Hill was a giant of baseball. He played for the Cuban X Giants, Philadelphia Giants, Leland Giants and Chicago American Giants as well as the Pittsburgh Keystones and Detroit Stars from the turn of the century to the early 1920s.
But it was because he was one of the greatest line-drive hitters of his era and had a rifle arm from center field that he was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 2006, as part of a special election of candidates who emerged through a five-year study on the feats of Negro leagues and pre-Negro leagues stars.
COOPERSTOWN, N.Y. – When Chelsea Baker looks around the field this week, the diamond will look the same, but her teammates will not.
Baker, a 13-year-old baseball phenom, is playing for the first time with a new team called the Sparks – made up of girls from all over the country – at Cooperstown Dreams Park this week, instead of her usual male teammates.
She has noticed a difference already, and although she thinks she talks more to her female teammates, "the boys root for me too," she said.
COOPERSTOWN, N.Y. – Babe Ruth spent his first full season with the Boston Red Sox in 1915. By Sept. 30 of that year, the team had clinched the league title and was set to play a series at the end of the regular season at Polo Grounds in New York.
Five days later on Oct. 5, the team posed for a photo on the foul line before a doubleheader against the Yankees. And thanks to a group of generous donors, that panoramic photo of a 20-year-old Ruth is now in the collection at the Baseball Hall of Fame.
COOPERSTOWN, N.Y. – George Steinbrenner made baseball history during his 37-year tenure with the New York Yankees.
As a longstanding member of the Baseball Hall of Fame’s Board of Directors, Steinbrenner helped preserve that history – and much more as one of the stewards of the National Pastime.
Steinbrenner, 80, passed away Tuesday in Tampa, Fla. He was named to the Hall of Fame’s Board of Directors July 25, 1998, and served until his death.
COOPERSTOWN, NY – He blazed a trail across the baseball world for parts of three decades, forever changing the game with fielding accomplishments never before seen.
He received baseball’s ultimate honor in the 2002, earning Hall of Fame election for his outstanding 19-year big league career that featured 15 All-Star Game selections and 13 Gold Gloves at shortstop.
Now, Ozzie Smith is committed to giving back to the game he loves. On July 23, that commitment will come alive for some fortunate fans at the annual PLAY Ball event at Doubleday Field in Cooperstown.
COOPERSTOWN, N.Y. – Not many people will know a subject so well during their lifetime that they are referred to as a “walking encyclopedia” by their colleagues.
But that was what Cliff Kachline was to baseball.
Kachline, the former reporter and editor of the Sporting News and historian at the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum, died Monday at the age of 88.
Picturesque.
It’s a word often used to describe minor league ballparks, due to their intimacy, charm, and a sense of Americana. Gary Jarvis wholeheartedly agrees, and the photographer spent more than a decade capturing those kind of images all over the country.
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This Day in Baseball History
On May 25, 1935, Babe Ruth hits the final three home runs - numbers 712, 713 and 714 - of his brilliant career. Ruth, wrapping up his playing days with the Boston Braves, connects three times and adds a double in an 11-7 loss to the Pittsburgh Pirates. Ruth’s total of 714 career home runs will stand as the major league record until surpassed by Hank Aaron in 1974.