Cooperstown: Baseball's Hall of Fame; Where the Legends Live Forever

New York: Arlington House, Inc, 1986. Enlarged and updated edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. Format is approximately 8.75 inches by 11.25 inches. 320 pages. Illustrations. Career Records. Newspaper clipping discoloration inside front cover and on fep. This is an oversize and heavy book that will require additional shipping costs if sent outside of the United States. A lively gallery of pictures and profiles of nearly 200 baseball legends. full-color and black-and-white photographs. Depicts the careers and achievements of outstanding professional baseball players, managers, and officials, including Babe Ruth, Hank Aaron, and Lou Gehrig. Lowell Reidenbaugh spent more than four decades working for The Sporting News, starting in 1947. He rose to the position of Corporate Editor. Prior to joining The Sporting News, he had worked for The Philadelphia Inquirer and the Lancaster Intelligencer-Journal. During WWII he served with the U.S. Army. The National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum is a history museum and hall of fame in Cooperstown, New York, operated by private interests. It serves as the central point of the history of baseball in the United States and displays baseball-related artifacts and exhibits, honoring those who have excelled in playing, managing, and serving the sport. The Hall's motto is "Preserving History, Honoring Excellence, Connecting Generations". Cooperstown is often used as shorthand (or a metonym) for the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum. The Hall of Fame was established in 1939 by Stephen Carlton Clark, an heir to the Singer Sewing Machine fortune. Clark sought to bring tourists to a city hurt by the Great Depression, which reduced the local tourist trade, and Prohibition, which devastated the local hops industry. Clark constructed the Hall of Fame's building, and it was dedicated on June 12, 1939. (His granddaughter, Jane Forbes Clark, is the current chairman of the board of directors.) The claim that Civil War hero Abner Doubleday invented baseball in Cooperstown was instrumental in the early marketing of the Hall. The San Francisco Giants have the most inductees, with 66. Sam Crane (who had played a decade in 19th century baseball before becoming a manager and sportswriter) had first approached the idea of making a memorial to the great players of the past in what was believed to have been the birthplace of baseball: Cooperstown, New York, but the idea did not muster much momentum until after his death in 1925. In 1934, the idea for establishing a Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum was devised by several individuals, such as Ford Frick (president of the National League) and Alexander Cleland, a Scottish immigrant who decided to serve as the first executive secretary for the Museum for the next seven years that worked with the interests of the Village and Major League Baseball. Stephen Carlton Clark (a Cooperstown native) paid for the construction of the museum, which was planned to open in 1939 to mark the "Centennial of Baseball", which included renovations to Doubleday Field. William Beattie served as the first curator of the museum.