The Church of Baseball exists in upstate New York, and here's your pilgrimage.
Nestled between the Adirondacks and the Catskills in central New York State, the pastoral village of Cooperstown has a mighty mission: to preserve and protect the story of America’s Game at the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum. Baseball has been America’s national pastime for nearly 150 years. Founded in 1939, today’s museum preserves history, honors excellence and connects generations through the story of baseball and America, featuring more than 35,000 artifacts, two million documents, 500,000 historic photographs, and 10,000 hours of original TV and radio recordings. The adjoining Hall of Fame contains the plaques of more than 275 of baseball’s immortals, including the first five men elected in 1936 – Babe Ruth, Christy Mathewson, Honus Wagner, Ty Cobb, and Walter Johnson.
Production
Stunning archival footage spanning baseball's entire visual history.
Direction
Doyle brothers capture Cooperstown's spiritual gravity without pretension.
Director
Marc Doyle
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Cooperstown was chosen partly because it was falsely believed to be where Abner Doubleday invented baseball — a myth the Hall of Fame now acknowledges but the town still profits from.
The 1939 opening coincided with baseball's centennial and the final season of Lou Gehrig, who gave his famous 'luckiest man' speech that same year.
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