The Hall Ball : One Fan's Journey to Unite Cooperstown Immortals with a Single Baseball.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Carhart, Ralph.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum.

Carhart, Ralph, 1972---Travel--United States.

Carhart, Ralph.

Baseball--United States.

Baseball.

Baseball players--United States.

Baseball players.

Crowdsourcing--United States.

Crowdsourcing.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (272 pages)

Place of Publication:

Jefferson : McFarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers, 2020.

Summary:

"Rescued in 2010 from the small creek that runs next to Doubleday Field in Cooperstown, New York, a simple baseball turned into an epic quest that spanned the United States and beyond. For eight years, "The Hall Ball" went on a journey to have its picture taken with every member of the Baseball Hall of Fame, both living and deceased. The goal? To enshrine the first crowd-sourced artifact ever donated to the Hall. Part travelogue, part baseball history, part photo journal, this book tells the full story for the first time. The narratives that accompany the ball's odyssey are as funny and moving as any in the history of the game."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Cover

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Foreword by John Thorn

Introduction

Prologue

Where Our Story (and the Game) Began ◆ New York

Springtime Home ◆ Florida

The Playground ◆ New Jersey

A Tale of Two Cities (and the Places ­In-Between) ◆ Pennsylvania

The Land of Our Irish Founders ◆ Massachusetts

Day Trip ◆ Connecticut

The Birth of the Big Leagues ◆ Illinois

Capital Heroes ◆ Maryland

The Most Sacred Ground of All ◆ Virginia

The Living Members ◆ I

Groundbreakers ◆ Ohio

Hoosier Hopes ◆ Indiana

Unlikely Allies ◆ Kentucky

Hack ◆ West Virginia

The Briefest Glory ◆ Delaware

Minor League Mecca ◆ North Carolina

Lessons Learned ◆ Georgia

Sol White and the Negro Leagues Baseball Grave Marker Project

The Living Members ◆ II

Unexpected Connection ◆ Texas

Meeting Friends and Family ◆ Michigan

So Many Brewers ◆ Wisconsin

A Forbidden Land ◆ Cuba

Fire and Ice ◆ Arizona

The Longest Road Trip ◆ California

Hometown Legend ◆ Idaho

The Farthest Corner ◆ Washington

The Living Members ◆ III

Tickets, Both Meal and Traffic ◆ Oklahoma

For the Love of It ◆ Kansas

The Truth About Pete ◆ Nebraska

The Home of the Negro Leagues ◆ Missouri

Finding Cristóbal

Two Locals and a Louisiana Yankee ◆ Arkansas

Blessed Mobile ◆ Alabama

A Pair of Pitchers ◆ Mississippi

Let the Good Times Roll ◆ Louisiana

The Symbolic Ones

Paradise ◆ Hawaii

So Much for Symbolism

The Living Members ◆ IV

The White Whales, the Hall of Fame, and the Baseball Reliquary

A Eulogy: April 17, 2017

Index.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-4766-3793-8

OCLC:

1159785692