Current Video: Billy's Bunch: Hall of Fame
Learn about baseball's history with a tour of the Hall of Fame. The venue includes artifacts dating back to the first years of the game.
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" Welcome back to -- bunch of beautiful Cooperstown New York."
" The dead no life Cooperstown over the Baseball Hall of Fame has no line."
" If that -- baseball minute let's go check up the baseball thing. Brendan here outside the Hall of Fame. I'm with a bunch of my teammates now let's go and deciding game you behind the scenes access to our."
" The Hall of Fame is basically three entities of course everybody's aware of all things -- That's what we're standing right now. And this is the plaque gallery this sort of our sacred space this start he dropped. This is where people come and sort of communing with the game. This is where all of the plaques are on the wall currently we have 289 members in the Hall of Fame. And we opened in 1936. And the first election the doors open in 1930 not. The second -- is comprised really the baseball timeline. It's a chronology of baseball from the beginning of baseball. Which dates back to move out of 1840s. And it goes all the way it -- around and ends in the -- that this is a place I think that. The younger generation of baseball -- fans really enjoyed -- since this room is going to contain artifacts. From the guys that you recognize the most okay this is part of fox basically from the last ten years. And we have a locker for each of the team. So that no matter who here fan this is at least once by halting his incumbency something for your team or your god lets first start off for the Marlins locker here. There's a lot of stuff that you're the oldest thing in here and I think it's one of the coolest events in Marlins history. The spikes award by Craig Counsell when he scored the winning run in the 1997 World Series next. Jeremy Hermida -- Jersey is he -- that 2005 that was four years ago he was. Joined bill -- from -- ever heard it played in 1890. As the only players in the Grand Slam and their first at bat. Rangers the other thing here's these four fast and this is great very -- they're from last year the Marlins became the first team in history last year with. Sports infielder sitting 25 or more home runs. It seems like boy that might have happened before there's been a lot of teams and a lot of Major League seasons. But -- that -- and that's the great thing about baseball has every year you see something you've never seen a the other World Series artifacts from a three we have been here is Josh Beckett Jersey -- threw a complete game shut out. -- find hitter night game six victory. Just opened this exhibit last month that's our newest exhibit we spent almost three years working on it it's called beat the baseball. This year I think when the season started almost 25%. Of all players in the major leagues were born black American country. That's what we take for granted now and what you guys have grown up watching which is a large influence what you. Ball players. But not always the case. And so this exhibit explores the impact it would give -- a -- on the game has caused the history. Baseball in the Latin American countries. Part of the players coming to play in the in the big leagues."
" This case contains some the oldest artifacts we have in the Hall of Fame this -- it looks like it's Boston right there's -- beyond. But it's actually -- Wisconsin. It's the oldest Jersey in the hall of fame and quite possibly the oldest Jersey and known in existence back then there the other thing I want to show you there was this fall see this bomb. Doesn't look like a baseball today right has been seems honest or anything like that it's from September 20 1854. For the first 3040 years of baseball nobody used clubs right which is why you're getting sports a fifteen to forty things like that the first baseball -- would have been like these up here. Regardless gloves from the 1840 tough for the lady tees at least notebooks -- Padgett going to the early 1880s and start to see players take clubs quite get by -- to the mid 1890s everyone plus. -- spent about fifteen years ago for no gloves to everybody clapped. The other thing -- trillion -- this is the first country. It's public they -- was patented in 1977. And it was me for the catcher for the Harvard has not College Baseball team. These are no hit."
" from every no hitter since the museum opened in 1939. The Marlins that for a no hitter since 1996 matched only by the Red Sox have no other teams are close 1996 Al Leiter beat the Colorado Rockies eleven to nothing. The next year 97 Kevin Brown beat Giants nineteen nothing that we had AJ Burnett 2001. And the most recent one in September of 2006. And about Sanchez. Beat the Diamondbacks today. This is one of -- people's favorite displays are in the Hall of Fame."
" It's all World Series rings. So we have over two and a half million. Pieces of paper documents and baseball and we -- archive collection. We have over half a million photographs that we have over 10000 hours of audio and video footage. -- pretty much if you want to learn anything about baseball was placed on this please -- to learn about it researchers. Sorry guys thank you very much for coming enjoyed having -- here at the Hall of Fame today hope you enjoyed seeing these habits and Steve -- museum works. As Vonnie is the but behind the scenes and how -- preserving collective history of the game so good luck dreams are going to have an extra."
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