A view of the Hall of Fame section (above) of the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum from the rotunda (below). Most of the HOF plaques hang in the alcoves off of the hall shown above. A few, including those of the inaugural class of 1936, hang in the rotunda. Babe Ruth, Ty Cobb, Christy Mathewson, Honus Wagner, and Walter Johnson comprised that class.The museum part of Cooperstown is filled with treasures but, as my mother observed, there's too much Yankees and Red Sox (I'd add Dodgers to that) and the lighting and signage are sometimes sketchy. For me the centerpiece at Cooperstown is the HOF. It's definitely a goosebumps (or as a Hawaiian friend put it, 'chickenskin') kind of place. And it's the reason I would go again.
