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Sports Museums and Halls of Fame
Sports museum:
“Its collection may contain artefacts, documents and relics relating to ordinary mortals as well as the famous or even the infamous” (Redmond, 1973:p43)
Hall of fame:
Are attractions which specifically venerate the famous, the gifted or the exceptional. (Gammon, 2002)
“Sports museums and halls of fame provide a different example of passive sport tourism likely to attract the connoisseur” (Standeven & De Knop, 1999:115).
Halls of fame and sports museums predominantly feed off nostalgia.
Baseball Hall of Fame
1st Hall of Fame in 1939 in Cooperstown (New York)
The Hall of Fame is comprised of 300 elected members. Included are 208 former major league players, 28 executives, 35 Negro Leaguers, 19 managers and 10 umpires. The Baseball Writers’ Association of America has elected 112 candidates to the Hall while the Committees on managers, umpires, executives and long-retired players (in all of its forms) has chosen 162 deserving candidates (96 major leaguers, 28 executives, 19 managers, nine Negro Leaguers and 10 umpires). The defunct “Committee on Negro Baseball Leagues” selected nine men between 1971-’77 and the Special Committee on Negro Leagues in 2006, elected 17 Negro Leaguers. The National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum collections feature just under 40.000 three-dimensional items, three million books and documents and 500.000 photographs. The Museum tells visitors the story of baseball through its three-story timeline, with the majestic Plaque Gallery serving as a centrepiece. http://baseballhall.org/ Why are Sports Museums and Halls of Fame an integral part of sport tourism?
Attractions
Sport tourism attractions are destinations that provide the tourist with things to see and do related to sport. Attractions can be natural (parks, mountains, wildlife) or human-made (museums, stadiums, stores). General characteristics represented in this core area of sport tourism include visitations to: (a)
Sports museum:
“Its collection may contain artefacts, documents and relics relating to ordinary mortals as well as the famous or even the infamous” (Redmond, 1973:p43)
Hall of fame:
Are attractions which specifically venerate the famous, the gifted or the exceptional. (Gammon, 2002)
“Sports museums and halls of fame provide a different example of passive sport tourism likely to attract the connoisseur” (Standeven & De Knop, 1999:115).
Halls of fame and sports museums predominantly feed off nostalgia.
Baseball Hall of Fame
1st Hall of Fame in 1939 in Cooperstown (New York)
The Hall of Fame is comprised of 300 elected members. Included are 208 former major league players, 28 executives, 35 Negro Leaguers, 19 managers and 10 umpires. The Baseball Writers’ Association of America has elected 112 candidates to the Hall while the Committees on managers, umpires, executives and long-retired players (in all of its forms) has chosen 162 deserving candidates (96 major leaguers, 28 executives, 19 managers, nine Negro Leaguers and 10 umpires). The defunct “Committee on Negro Baseball Leagues” selected nine men between 1971-’77 and the Special Committee on Negro Leagues in 2006, elected 17 Negro Leaguers. The National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum collections feature just under 40.000 three-dimensional items, three million books and documents and 500.000 photographs. The Museum tells visitors the story of baseball through its three-story timeline, with the majestic Plaque Gallery serving as a centrepiece. http://baseballhall.org/ Why are Sports Museums and Halls of Fame an integral part of sport tourism?
Attractions
Sport tourism attractions are destinations that provide the tourist with things to see and do related to sport. Attractions can be natural (parks, mountains, wildlife) or human-made (museums, stadiums, stores). General characteristics represented in this core area of sport tourism include visitations to: (a)