National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum

Happy New Year! We're excited for all the baseball history 2025 has in store.

Our members, donors and visitors are the foundation for everything we do, and your continued support ensures that every baseball fan will always have a place to connect to the game's greatest moments. On behalf of our entire team at the Hall and our Board of Directors, thank you for your generosity. We look forward to continuing to care for our incredible collection and celebrate the stories and legends of our game, together. https://lnkd.in/eXwQ7sSM

We'll miss you forever in Cooperstown, Rickey.

Congratulations to the 2025 BBWAA Career Excellence Award winner, Thomas Boswell! Boswell, who for 52 years at The Washington Post as a baseball beat writer and later a columnist became one of the most notable and recognizable names in sports writing, will be honored with the award that is presented annually to a sportswriter “for meritorious contributions to baseball writing” during the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum’s induction weekend July 25-28 in Cooperstown, N.Y. Read more: https://lnkd.in/ePzttBJn

Tom Hamilton, who has called Cleveland Guardians games on the radio for 35 seasons, has been selected as the 2025 recipient of the Ford C. Frick Award, presented annually for excellence in broadcasting by the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum. Hamilton will be honored during the Hall of Fame Awards Presentation as part of Hall of Fame Weekend, July 25-28, 2025. Hamilton becomes the 49th winner of the Frick Award. Read more: https://lnkd.in/ek5xrsjP

Welcome to Cooperstown, Dick Allen and Dave Parker! Allen, a seven-time All-Star and two-time home run champion, and Parker, a two-time batting champion and the owner of two World Series rings, earned election to the National Baseball Hall of Fame on Sunday via the Classic Baseball Era Committee process. They will be joined in the Hall of Fame Class of 2025 by any electees who emerge from the Baseball Writers’ Association of America voting, which will be announced on Tuesday, Jan. 21. Read more: https://lnkd.in/eW4Kr324

The reigning Los Angeles Dodgers are officially on display in Cooperstown! Spikes worn by World Series MVP Freddie Freeman and Shohei Ohtani’s Game 3 jersey highlight the Autumn Glory exhibit’s year-long salute to baseball’s champions.   Read more: https://lnkd.in/e9BNN7wq

On this #GivingTuesday, we are grateful for all our donors and Museum Members who help us preserve baseball history through the Our Museum in Action initiative. As an independent nonprofit educational institution that depends on the support and generosity of baseball fans to fulfill our mission, these ongoing projects are just a few of the ways the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum's mission is being supported today. Explore projects that need conservation and preservation here, including Babe Ruth's 1926 World Series glove: https://lnkd.in/ehdNupyN

The winner of the 2025 Ford C. Frick Award for excellence in baseball broadcasting will be announced two weeks from today at the Winter Meetings. Read more about this year's finalists: https://lnkd.in/eqtapG5r

Funded by a donation from the Jim Murray Memorial Foundation, the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum’s Communications Department hosts internship positions for one semester each, providing meaningful work experience for students as part of the Jim Murray Sports Communications Scholars Program. The deadline to apply for the Spring 2025 position is Dec. 1, 2024: https://lnkd.in/etVyFd-Q