National Pastime Museum Announces New Website Launch on Opening Day 2013

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National Pastime Museum Announces New Website Launch on Opening Day 2013

Interactive Website of Exhibits Articulating Baseball’s Past

Documenting the history of baseball, www.TheNationalPastimeMuseum.com features an extraordinary collection of baseball ephemera, memorabilia, historical artifacts and documents. Our online baseball museum navigates through our extensive collection of rarities, marrying the exciting history of the game with a century and a half of timeless artifacts. With interactive exhibits and informative articles on “America’s Game,” as Walt Whitman famously dubbed it, The National Pastime Museum educates and entertains. The game of baseball is many things to many people, but most importantly, it provides a window into the cultural legacy of America. It is that legacy that we hope to share with our viewers.

Timeline Exhibitions
The website allows visitors to navigate baseball’s history through an interactive timeline while exploring related artifacts along the way. It follows baseball’s story from the origins of the game up through the apex of its cultural significance in the mid-20th century. An additional timeline will feature the telling and poignant history of the African American baseball experience in an exhibit that we have titled A Separate Game. It will feature the story of the “separate game” of black baseball from the game’s very early years through 1947, the time in which Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier.

Collection Highlights
Viewers will also be able to browse and enjoy collection highlights through special exhibits that will launch throughout the year. Our first extensive special exhibit features our world-class collection of baseball bats game used by some of the greatest hitters of all time, from Babe Ruth and “Shoeless” Joe Jackson through Lou Gehrig and the legendary Josh Gibson. Our special bat exhibit will also feature an informative video featuring the nation’s leading bat authenticator and expert John Taube.

Articles
The site will feature a series of monthly columns from nine of the most distinguished baseball historians in the nation. We will also feature regular ongoing articles telling “the story behind the story” of the rarest and most important artifacts found within the collection. Additionally, a rotating group of guest historians will be featured in our Historian’s Corner series. These articles offer an invaluable opportunity to learn about baseball's storied lore from some of the most knowledgeable experts in the field.

Our Mission
Baseball, in its purest form, is simple. The game is fun. It can easily be played by children or adults, with a bat or a stick and a ball. It can be played in an open space or an expansive stadium. But wherever played and however expressed, baseball’s traditions touch us all. Unlike any other sport, the game links us to our past. The National Pastime Museum provides a different and visually creative way to explore our great game on the World Wide Web through rare and wonderful artifacts, images and relics. It is our hope that the public will not only derive delight, but will learn a bit about our great game and ultimately about we as a people.