Our National Spirit
Visitors get a glimpse of the sport's beginning and how it has evolved into our national pastime.

Ideals & Injustices
The promise of equal opportunity offered to so many people is revealed in this area.

Rooting for the Team
Here, the traditions of the game are explored-hot dogs, the seventh-inning stretch, team colors, etc.

Enterprise & Opportunity
In this section, the visitor is introduced to the business of baseball from the price of game tickets to athlete product endorsements.

Sharing a Common Culture
It's not what your wear, but who you wear. Baseball's place in pop culture.

Invention & Ingenuity
Technological advances brought to the game are divulged here.

Weaving Myths
The sport of legends. The larger-than-life stories that fuel our fascination with this game are detailed in this section.

National Baseball Hall of Fame Library
Cooperstown, New York

From the game's most "sacred relic" -- the Doubleday Ball from baseball's mythic first game in 1839, to Babe Ruth's bat with the 29 notches he carved to mark home runs -- Baseball As America provides something for everyone: children, adults, sports fans and cultural mavens.

Baseball As America premiered in New York City in March 2002 at the American Museum of Natural History. It has also appeared at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago, the Cincinnati Museum Center, the Florida International Museum in St. Petersburg, the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History, the Missouri Historical Society in St. Louis, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and the Oakland Museum of California.