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Cooperstown collection underway at Miller Park
- Updated: July 22, 2016
Thousands of fans will converge upon Cooperstown to watch as Ken Griffey Jr. and Mike Piazza become immortalized in the Hall of Fame this weekend. But for many of those who can’t attend Induction Weekend, the Hall of Fame has brought its relics to them.
Baseball’s Hall of Fame tour rolled into Milwaukee — a city more than 300 times the size of Cooperstown — on July 15, bringing with it an exciting opportunity to catch a glimpse of the game’s past. The Tour launched on July 3 at Modern Woodmen Park in Davenport, Iowa, where fans got the first taste of the state-of-the-art baseball experience. Davenport is a mere 90 minutes south of the Field of Dreams site in Dyersville, where Commissioner Rob Manfred unveiled the plans for the traveling exhibit, becoming the first active Commissioner to make a pilgrimage to the storied location.
“The idea,” Manfred said, “of taking another baseball shrine, Cooperstown, and making it mobile so that people around the country have a more realistic opportunity to share in the experience is a great idea.”
The Tour features 45 artifacts from Cooperstown’s collection, plus interactive games and displays, an in-game virtual reality experience, and the first and only mobile IMAX movie in the country. Among the traveling treasures is the ball hit by Hammerin’ Hank Aaron — who began his …
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