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Watch the Stars on Main Street at Hall of Fame Parade of Legends Saturday, July 23
It’s the largest gathering of Hall of Famers on the baseball calendar. And for one evening every July, Main Street in Cooperstown becomes baseball’s biggest red carpet celebration during the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum’s Parade of Legends.
The newest fan favorite during Hall of Fame Weekend, the Parade of Legends returns at 6 p.m. on Saturday, July 23. Now in its seventh year, the parade will originate on Chestnut Street, then proceed down Main Street before concluding at the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum.
Fans are encouraged to gather near Pioneer Park at Main and Pioneer streets for optimal viewing opportunities. Live announcements introducing all of the Hall of Fame members and participants will be featured.
Fans will have a front-row seat to catch a glimpse of the returning Hall of Famers as they parade along the route. Hall of Famers will ride down the parade route in trucks provided by Ford Motor Company. Fifty-four Hall of Famers are slated to be in Cooperstown for Hall of Fame Weekend.
Immediately prior to the Parade of Legends, the Hall of Fame Awards Presentation will be held at Doubleday Field starting at 4:30 p.m. The one-hour program will feature the presentation of the J.G. Taylor Spink Award for meritorious contributions to baseball writing to longtime Boston Globe columnist Dan Shaughnessy. Pioneering broadcaster Graham McNamee will be posthumously honored with the Ford C. Frick Award for broadcast excellence. The returning Hall of Famers will watch the Awards Presentation from seats on the Doubleday Field stage.
The Awards Presentation will also feature an appearance by New York City Fire Department Battalion Chief Vin Mavaro, who will share his thoughts and memories about baseball’s role in helping New York City, and the nation, begin to recover from the 9/11 attacks. In late September of 2001, Mavaro found a baseball in the rubble of the World Trade Center. Upon donating it to the Museum, Mavaro explained at the time that the ball offered an unexpected, almost visceral, reminder of the ideal so many of us learned as children, the notion that a game – and its immortals – can have melding, communal power.
MLB Network’s Greg Amsinger will emcee the Awards Presentation, which is free and open to the public.
The Parade of Legends is just part of the July 22-25 Induction Weekend in Cooperstown as Ken Griffey Jr. and Mike Piazza are inducted as the Class of 2016 at the Baseball Hall of Fame. The Induction Ceremony takes place at 1:30 p.m. on July 24 on the grounds of the Clark Sports Center, one mile south of the Hall of Fame on Susquehanna Avenue. Admission to the Induction Ceremony is free.
The 2016 Induction Ceremony will be televised live on MLB Network, will be broadcast nationally on Sirius XM Radio Channel 89 and will be available via a webcast at www.baseballhall.org.
As a lead-in to Induction Weekend, Grammy Award-winning artist Norah Jones will perform with the Preservation Hall Jazz Band at 7 p.m. on Thursday, July 21 at Brewery Ommegang in Cooperstown. Tickets are available at www.dansmallspresents.com/norah-jones.
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