Baseball Heritage Museum

The Baseball Heritage Museum is a baseball museum in Cleveland, Ohio, located at the site of League Park, former home of the Cleveland Indians.The Baseball Heritage Museum is part of the renovated League Park complex at East 66th Street and Lexington Avenue and resides in the former League Park ticket house. The address is 6601 Lexington Avenue, Cleveland Ohio, 44103.

Shown in 2009, the former League Park ticket house was renovated to house the Baseball Heritage Museum as part of a League Park site renovation.

History

The Baseball Heritage Museum was first opened in 1997 at a location in downtown Cleveland. To correspond with the 1997 Major League Baseball All-Star Game at Cleveland's Jacobs Field, Robert Zimmer first displayed items at the family jewelry store.[1] The museum continued to grow from founder Zimmer's personal family collection. Included are artifacts from the Negro Leagues, women's leagues, Caribbean leagues, and industrial and barnstorming leagues, as well as the major leagues.[2]

In 2006, the museum moved to a location in the Colonial Marketplace on Euclid Avenue. With the renovation of the League Park site, the museum moved to the present location in 2014.[3] The museum is housed in the former Ticket House of League Park.[4]

Former Cleveland Indians infielder Vern Fuller was the original executive director of the Baseball Heritage Museum. In 2017, Mike Gaynier was appointed executive director.[5]

The first "Baseball Heritage Museum Festival" took place in May 2006 with players such as Bob Feller and Buck O'Neill attending.[6] in 2014, there were 2,000 people in attendance for the renovation opening at League Park.[1]

References
  1. Indians, Cleveland (29 August 2014). "Baseball Heritage Museum moves to fitting place — renovated League Park". TribeVibe.
  2. Maloney, Damon. "Baseball Heritage Museum: A very magical place". cleveland19.com.
  3. "Baseball Heritage Museum, Cleveland". Ohio. Find it here. 13 August 2012. Archived from the original on 10 December 2018. Retrieved 9 December 2018.
  4. Warsinskey, Tim. "League Park reopens to a historic appreciation, beautiful restoration and hopeful future". cleveland.com.
  5. Aug 4; Business, 2017. "The Baseball Heritage Museum Appoints Executive Director - Cleveland Pulse".CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  6. "Field Trip: The Baseball Heritage Museum". The Cardboard Connection. 29 August 2011.
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