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Hall of Fame's exhibit 'Baseball as America' displayed at Henry Ford Museum

More than 500 pieces from the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in Cooperstown, N.Y., will be on display at the Henry Ford Museum through Sept. 5, much of which has not recently been on display in Cooperstown.

Included in the display is the Doubleday Ball, which has been designated as the game's most "sacred relic". The Doubleday Ball is cherished above everything thing else in the exhibit on two counts. It was used in baseball's first game in 1839, and it was the first object acquired by the New York museum, which officially was dedicated in 1939 during the game's centennial.

Photo credit: Library of Congress, American Memory, LC-USZ62-97880. Many more images in Jackie Robinson and Other Baseball Highlights, 1860s-1960s.

'Baseball as America' at the Henry Ford Museum
Read 'Baseball as America' comes to Detroit on the Detroit Tiger's website
Read Cooperstown loans even most sacred relic to Ford exhibit in the Detroit News
Read Did Abner Doubleday invent baseball? on Wikipedia

Posted/updated Apr 28, 2006
by William Stevens (Absolute Michigan Lifestyles Editor)