Sunday morning, we ate breakfast in the rain and then headed off to Cooperstown where we parked by the Extra Innings store and made our wall into the Hall of Fame where we were greeted by Character and Courage and directed to the indoor ball park to see a short video before we paid our respects to Abner Doubleday and heard the tale of Albert Spalding and paid our respects to the founder of the hall before checking out the New Moe Berg display and this hat work by Tony Lucadello who was a Phillies scout for 34 years and this indicator of where we would be later in the week. These balls provided a nice display as we learned about the first professional teams including Honus Wagner among their players and saw 19th century shoes and an inflatable chest protector before hearing about the bases who rang bells (but didn't really work) and this picture of the 1915 Red Sox and the 1919 White Sox (the BlackSox) and Joe Jackson (say it ain't so ... ) and Red Faber with his glove and shoes and Walter Johnson and the Pirates -- Pie Traynor, Max Carey, Kiki Cuyler and the Waner Brothers, Hank Greenberg, Lou Gehrig's locker, Jackie Robinson and the boys of summer, and their equipment. Next it was Ernie Banks, Mr. Cub, and Ralph Kiner and then materials from the Grand Rapids Chicks of the women's league before we saw the words to Take Me out to the Ball Game and materials from the Indians 1948 championship team after which we saw this demonstration of the science of hitting by Ted Williams and these quotes from Casey Stengel and Yogi Berra. Next it was time to celebrate the Indians and Robin Roberts and the Pirates of the late 60's, early 70's including Roberto Clemente with the chair from his locker at Forbes Field. The Phillies of Mike Schmidt came next followed by Bill Russell's shoes (but not the ones we had seen the day before) and materials from the Kansas City Monarchs of the Negro League and Honus Wagner's locker and details of the 1909 Cubs with the baseball cards of Tinker, Evers and Chance. Then, a program from the battle between Mordecai (3 finger) Brown and Christy Matthewson along with Brown's shoes and Babe Ruth's locker followed by a quote from a card collector and a picture of one of the world's most valuable cards.

Next we explored teams starting with the Philadelphia Phillies and the Pittsburgh Pirates and the Washington Nationals who have not been trans-border friendly followed by the Angels (many locations) and the Boston Red Sox. We met some fans

on our way to seeing the ondeck circle from Forbes Field and some history of the ball park. We saw a slide rule made like a baseball bat and equipment including a pitching rubber a base and home plate followed by posters arguing against lights in Wrigley Field and documentation of those who visited all ball parks quickly and a brick from Forbes Field Next we were in the Hank Aaron exhibit

which Ben enjoyed and memorabilia from his career along with quotes about him even as the Hall of Fame justified its approach to Performance-Enhancing Drugs (PEDs) and showed us Bobby Thompson's home run (Bobby having died that week) and after a photo of the 1960 Pirates stories about famous home runs, including that of Bill Mazeroski. Next we saw the Abbott and Costello bit about ``Who's on First) and the decorated cow made famous by Phil Rizutto (Scooter) as we walked by the ballpark painting and Hank Aaron and Casey Stengel and materials belonging to Doug Harvey, long time umpire. We saw Bill Mazeroski and Dave Winfield's 2001 induction Sandy Koufax (1972), Yogi Berra (1972) and Ernie Banks (1977) as we made our way into the Hall itself and recorded all of the plaques

pausing for Joe Dimaggio before returning to groups P1030564 and then Jackie Robinson and Hank Greenburg and more plaques before Ted Williams and some more before Roberto Clemente and more before Ernie Banks and Robin Roberts and a few more before Hank Aaron and more before Willie Stargell and Willie McCovey plagues and Rollie Fingers plagues before Mike Schmidt a plague Richie Ashburn more plagues Bill Mazeroski (who hit the home run) a plague Smokey Williams a group Carlton Fisk a group Ozzie Smith another group and finally Whitey Herzog before Ben posed with the great hitters and we saw the sculptures outside of pitcher and catcher before looking back through the hall and outside at the wet bench with a description of the sculptures and of baseball movies. Next we headed across the street to the Triple Play Cafe where Roberto Clemente looked down on us as Ben ate his chicken and I had my hummus wrap and after recording these hand washing signs for the collection we headed off on our way.

Our next stop was at the Long Distance Running Hall of Fame in Utica which was closed though we did record the location.

We arrived at the International Boxing Hall of Fame as it was closing but were allowed into the gift shop where we could see this ring from Madison Square Gardens and record their logo along with punching bags descriptions of those who fought in the ring some boxing gloves and T shirts. After recording the logo once more we were ready to drive towards Rochester. Along the way, Ben amused himself with my camera taking pictures in the car and out

before we arrived at our hotel and recorded our room as well as the Jefferson Room before heading out to Nick Tahou's where we ordered garbage plates from this menu and this was Ben's red hots and my grilled cheese garbage plate along with his hot sauce and mine which led me to the clean plate club but a very full stomach.