O/T-- What's your favorite thing in "The Hall"?

[Joe_G.]

By far, the Library. During one visit, I asked to see Detroit Wolverine team pictures from Tomlinson Studio (in advance of my visit) and was greated with not one but five imperial cabinets from 1886 & 1887. Their collection of N172 & N173 cards are also very impressive.

[Moonlight Graham]

The Babe Ruth Room is awesome-the statues of the fans and ticketbooth on the third floor are awesome-the Women In Baseball display is awesome-the whole museum is awesome!! It's quite a coincidence that this thread was even started as I have just made my reservations yesterday to return for our ninth straight year and I can't think of a better vacation-hope you have lots of fun!!

[almostdone]

My advice is to take two things.

1. Take your time. Make sure you have an entire day to slowly wonder through and read and see everything.

2. Take someone with you. The last time I went (and the only time as an adult) my wife was with me but she was sick so she went back to lay down in the hotel.. As I walked through I couldn't help but wish I had my dad, son, friends or someone with me to do it with.

Overall, enjoy. You're first time in the hall is an unforgetable experience.

You'll never regret or forget it.

Drew

[sdkammeyer]

Originally Posted by Joe_G.

By far, the Library. During one visit, I asked to see Detroit Wolverine team pictures from Tomlinson Studio (in advance of my visit) and was greated with not one but five imperial cabinets from 1886 & 1887. Their collection of N172 & N173 cards are also very impressive.

I got goosebumps the size of golf balls just thinking about this post.

My personal "Holy Grail" of cards.

[rc4157]

As others have stated, take your time! There is so much to see and absorb, you really don't want to rush. If someone goes with you make certain they are a baseball fan, my wife would tolerate it but not as long as I would wish.

As far as a favorite, I would have to go with something rather obscure, the corrected picture and story of Art Shamsky hitting 4 consecutive homers along with his bat. When I visited there for the first time, I noticed that they had Shamsky listed and pictured as a Met, he completed his feat while a member of the Reds. I wrote the Hall a letter and sure enough they corrected it and sent me a nice letter thanking me. It feels good to know that I had a very small impact on the Hall of Fame

Enjoy your trip!
RC