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Reisler, Jim, 1958-

A great day in Cooperstown : the improbable birth of Baseball's Hall of Fame / Jim Reisler.

1st ed.

New York, NY : Carroll & Graf Publishers, 2006.

xiii, 241 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm

Presents a history of baseball's first century, told through the story of the National Baseball Hall of Fame and set against a backdrop of the museum's inaugural ceremony in 1939.

National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum.

Baseball -- United States -- History -- 20th century.

National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-229) and index.

"So this is wher all the grief started" -- The plan -- "an intresting museum (with) funny, old uniforms" -- "Dear Mr. Spalding ... the American game of baseball was invented by Abner Doubleday" -- "In the beginning, a vision and it came to pass" -- "I am overwhelmed" to make the Hall of Fame -- "The point is to get baseball into the other pages as well as the sports page" -- An "embarrassing revelation" for baseball -- "I hope it goes anothe one hundred years" -- A "world series with the score tied nothing to nothing in the ninth inning" -- "I wouldn't have missed it for anything."

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