Rickey Henderson and Jim Rice were recently elected into the baseball Hall of Fame. But for the third year in a row Mark McGwire failed to gain entry into Cooperstown. The Hall has a way of snubbing some of it’s greatest players, just look at Bert Blyleven who sits at #5 on the career strikeout list for pitchers with 3,701, but has yet to get elected after 11 years of eligibility.

When a baseball legend breaks a historic record it’s standard for the memorabilia to go into private collection or more appropriately be donated to the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, NY. Here, like priceless works of art, the piece of memorabilia will be kept in clean room like conditions in order to maintain the integrity and value while showc… Click to read more