Players of Cooperstown; Baseball's Hall of Fame

Lincolnwood, IL: Publications International, Ltd, 1997. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. Very good/Good. The format is approximately 9.25 inches by 12.125 inches. 288 pages. DJ has small scratch on the front. Alphabetic List of Players. Illustrations (some in color). Index. This is a heavy item and if shipped outside of the United States will require additional shipping charges. Provides profiles and pictures of more than 200 great players, managers, and contributors who are part of the baseball Hall of Fame. Featuring extensive biographies of the greatest players, managers, and contributors who are members of the Cooperstown Baseball Hall of Fame, this guide covers the greats as well as the lesser known players, plus career statistics. Chapters include Birth of the Game, Dead-Ball Era, Brawny Baseball, Home Front, Equal Opportunity, Manifest Destiny, and New Frontier. David Nemec (born December 10, 1938) is an American baseball historian and novelist. Since 1987, Nemec has authored or co-authored over 20 books on baseball, many focusing on the game's early years as a professional sport, which became his specialty as a baseball historian. 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, which 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. An expanded library and research facility opened in 1994. Dale Petroskey became the organization's president in 1999. In 2002, the Hall launched Baseball as America, a traveling exhibit that toured ten American museums over six years. The Hall of Fame has since also sponsored educational programming on the Internet to bring the Hall of Fame to schoolchildren who might not visit. The Hall and Museum completed a series of renovations in spring 2005. The Hall of Fame also presents an annual exhibit at FanFest at the Major League Baseball All-Star Game.