The Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum (french: Temple de la renommée du baseball canadien) is a museum located in St. Marys, Ontario, Canada. The museum commemorates great players, teams, and accomplishments of

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History

The museum was founded in November 1982 in

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and later moved to

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theme park. In August 1994, it was awarded to St. Marys, Ontario, and in June 1998 the doors officially opened in St. Marys. On November 23, 2017, construction began on a expansion to the museum, including a secure archive facility, library, new entrance, and auditorium/exhibition space. The re-designed museum opened to the public on April 27, 2019. The Hall of Fame and Museum is dedicated to preserving Canada's

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heritage which dates back to June 4, 1838, when a game which very closely resembled today's game of baseball was played in Beachville, Ontario. In 2021, Helen Callaghan, who had played in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League (AAGPBL), became the first woman individually inducted to the Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame; the Hall had previously inducted, as a group in 1998, all Canadian women who played in the AAGPBL. In early 2022, the Hall of Fame was criticized for not inducting the Chatham Coloured All-Stars, the first Black team to win an

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title.

Awards

Since opening, over 125 individual members have been inducted into the hall. This includes professional and amateur players, builders, administrators, umpires, broadcasters, writers, and honorary members who have helped popularize the sport in Canada. Several teams or groups have also been inducted. Multiple members of the hall have also been inducted into the

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in Cooperstown, New York, as players, managers, or executives; several others have been recipients of the Ford C. Frick Award or BBWAA Career Excellence Award. In addition, the Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame awards the Tip O'Neill Award annually to the Canadian baseball player "judged to have excelled in individual achievement and team contribution while adhering to the highest ideals of the game of baseball" and the

Jack Graney Award The Jack Graney Award is presented by the Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame & Museum to a member of the Canadian media for their contributions to the game of baseball in Canada. The award is not presented every year, but rather when the committee b ...

for Lifetime Media Achievement.

Facilities

The facility in St. Marys also includes four baseball fields designed by landscape architect Art Lierman of

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—awarded to the winner of an annual exhibition game between the

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and

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from 1978 to 1986—is on display at the museum.

Rules for nominations

# A player must be retired for at least three years. # Must receive 75 percent of the vote to be inducted. # If the person is not Canadian he must have done something significant with respect to baseball in Canada. # The person nominated will stay on the ballot for nine years as long as he receives a minimum of one vote every two years. # All information must be in by December 1 of the year to be eligible for the following year.Rules for Nominations
at baseballhalloffame.ca; URL accessed July 2, 2009

Inductees

Individuals

Groups

References

External links

Official website
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