Big Phil
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- Nov 2, 2003
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Hockey, Baseball, Football and Basketball.
Just mention the ones you've been to. For me it would look like this:
Baseball
Football
Hockey
Basketball
I don't think you can beat Cooperstown. There is something in the air around that place. It is clearly a town that is built around the Hall. Down the street you have Doubleday Field. I watched a bantam game there once, just for the heck of it. Lots of Americana surrounding it. I don't think any Hall beats the nostalgia quite like this one.
Football again is another Hall in a good area. Ohio is very much the capital of the football world, so it suits it, plus the NHL was founded there. I'll say one thing, while I am a big football historian I think it is hard to compete with baseball when it comes down to that. People still love to hear about Babe Ruth 100 years later. How many people want to talk about Sammy Baugh? Anyway, more interactive than the Baseball Hall.
With the HHOF you've got it in Toronto and this is the only one of the Halls where it is not in the location where the sport was founded. It probably was just chosen because it is a good location and a populous location. Kind of reminds me of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland. Yeah there are some reasons it was picked, but you always wonder why it isn't in Detroit, or Nashville or Memphis or somewhere like that. I guess you can say downtown Toronto isn't the most nostalgic hockey setting. I always wonder about where the Stanley Cup is set up. It almost looks like you could just walk out the door and be right in an intersection of downtown Toronto. Which you could. That being said, the fact that the Cup is there is quite epic. I've always loved that. There is a lot of interactive things to do there, that big theatre always has a fun video to watch and once you are inside it definitely has a "hockey feel" to it. Lots of things to read as well, neat stuff to look up. You could easily spend a day there if you want to go through things thoroughly. Love the Habs dressing room replica.
I guess something has to go 4th. The James Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame in Springfield, Mass. I liked it, don't get me wrong. I went when they were in the middle of the additions on the 3rd level, so it probably is a bit bigger now. I thought it was the fastest Hall to go through. Lots of interactive stuff. You can dunk on a 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10ft. net. You can shoot into peach baskets. I liked the footprints of the Hall of Famers. I had the same shoe size as Michael Jordan, slightly smaller than Lebron (not in the Hall yet but he was still mentioned). Shaq's shoe forget about it! I appreciated that Naismith was still profiled, Canadian born and all. Also like how it was in Springfield where Naismith introduced it.
Just mention the ones you've been to. For me it would look like this:
Baseball
Football
Hockey
Basketball
I don't think you can beat Cooperstown. There is something in the air around that place. It is clearly a town that is built around the Hall. Down the street you have Doubleday Field. I watched a bantam game there once, just for the heck of it. Lots of Americana surrounding it. I don't think any Hall beats the nostalgia quite like this one.
Football again is another Hall in a good area. Ohio is very much the capital of the football world, so it suits it, plus the NHL was founded there. I'll say one thing, while I am a big football historian I think it is hard to compete with baseball when it comes down to that. People still love to hear about Babe Ruth 100 years later. How many people want to talk about Sammy Baugh? Anyway, more interactive than the Baseball Hall.
With the HHOF you've got it in Toronto and this is the only one of the Halls where it is not in the location where the sport was founded. It probably was just chosen because it is a good location and a populous location. Kind of reminds me of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland. Yeah there are some reasons it was picked, but you always wonder why it isn't in Detroit, or Nashville or Memphis or somewhere like that. I guess you can say downtown Toronto isn't the most nostalgic hockey setting. I always wonder about where the Stanley Cup is set up. It almost looks like you could just walk out the door and be right in an intersection of downtown Toronto. Which you could. That being said, the fact that the Cup is there is quite epic. I've always loved that. There is a lot of interactive things to do there, that big theatre always has a fun video to watch and once you are inside it definitely has a "hockey feel" to it. Lots of things to read as well, neat stuff to look up. You could easily spend a day there if you want to go through things thoroughly. Love the Habs dressing room replica.
I guess something has to go 4th. The James Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame in Springfield, Mass. I liked it, don't get me wrong. I went when they were in the middle of the additions on the 3rd level, so it probably is a bit bigger now. I thought it was the fastest Hall to go through. Lots of interactive stuff. You can dunk on a 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10ft. net. You can shoot into peach baskets. I liked the footprints of the Hall of Famers. I had the same shoe size as Michael Jordan, slightly smaller than Lebron (not in the Hall yet but he was still mentioned). Shaq's shoe forget about it! I appreciated that Naismith was still profiled, Canadian born and all. Also like how it was in Springfield where Naismith introduced it.