Hall of Fame’s Picturing America’s Pastime Exhibit Opens Jan. 14 in Maysville, Ky.

(COOPERSTOWN, NY) – The National Pastime and the art of photography came of age almost simultaneously, and baseball has long been a favorite subject of professional and amateur shooters alike.

In 2026 at the Kentucky Gateway Museum Center in Maysville, Ky., fans can view some of the game’s most telling images from the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum’s world-renown archive in the traveling exhibition Picturing America’s Pastime: A Snapshot of the Photograph Collection at the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum.

Debuting Jan. 14 and running through March 15, Picturing America’s Pastime features 51 framed photographs representing the Hall of Fame’s collection of approximately a quarter million images. Picturing America’s Pastime shows the historic link between the two American passions.

Featuring work from photographers spanning generations, like Charles M. Conlon, Carl J. Horner, Arthur Rothstein, William C. Greene and Brad Mangin – along with many unidentified photographers whose images have been donated to the Museum – Picturing America’s Pastime captures the grandeur of the early game to the vibrancy of today’s sport through images in sepia, color and black-and-white.

Picturing America’s Pastime will also be traveling to the Haggin Museum in Stockton, Calif., April 6-May 31, 2026; and the Upcountry History Museum at Furman University in Greenville, S.C., June 20-Oct. 25, 2026.