Coordinates: 43°15′05″N 81°08′38″W / 43.251435°N 81.143845°W / 43.251435; -81.143845

Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame
Established	1983
Location	St. Marys, Ontario, Canada
Type	sports museum
Website	www.baseballhalloffame.ca/

The Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame & Museum is a museum located in St. Marys, Ontario, Canada. The museums commemorates great players, teams, and accomplishments of baseball in Canada.

Contents 1 History 2 Awards 3 Facilities 3.1 Pearson Cup on display 4 Rules for nominations 5 Inductees 5.1 Individuals 5.2 Teams / groups 6 See also 7 External links 8 References

[edit] History

The museum was founded in October 1983 in Toronto at Exhibition Place and later moved to Ontario Place. In 1994, it moved to St. Marys. It is dedicated to preserving Canada's baseball heritage, which dates back to June 4, 1838, when a game closely resembling today's baseball was played in Beachville, Ontario, according to an article in Sporting Life magazine in 1886 written by Dr. Adam Ford, formerly of St. Marys. The Hall gained some major attention when Pete Rose became eligible for earning his 4,000th hit with the Montreal Expos. However Rose has yet to be elected to the Hall.

[edit] Awards

Since opening, 78 members (49 players, 23 builders, 2 honorary, 4 honorary teams) have been inducted into the Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame. It includes professional ballplayers, amateurs, builders and honorary members who have helped popularize the sport in Canada.

In addition, the Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame also gives out the Tip O'Neill Award annually to the baseball player "judged to have excelled in individual achievement and team contribution while adhering to the highest ideals of the game of baseball."^[1]

The Hall of Fame also awards the Jack Graney Award for Lifetime Media achievement. It was last awarded to Len Bramson of TBS sports in 2005.^[2]

[edit] Facilities

The facility in St. Marys also includes a baseball field designed by landscape architect Art Lierman of London, Ontario.

[edit] Pearson Cup on display

See: Pearson Cup

[edit] Rules for nominations

1. A player must be retired for three years.
2. Must receive 75 per cent of the vote to be inducted.
3. If the person is not Canadian he must have done something significant in baseball in Canada.
4. The person nominated will stay on the ballot for nine years as long as he receives a minimum of one vote every two years.
5. All information must be in by December 31 of the year to be eligible for the following year.^[3]

[edit] Inductees

See also: Category:Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame inductees

[edit] Individuals

[edit] Teams / groups

• Beachville & Zorra teams of 1883 (1988)
• National Youth Team, 1991 (1992)
• Asahi Tigers Japanese-Canadian team (2003)
• Canadian-born players in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League (1998)^[4]

[edit] See also

• History of baseball outside the United States#Canada
• London Tecumsehs#Early baseball in Canada
• Category:Baseball in Canada
• Baseball awards#Canada

[edit] External links

• Official website

[edit] References