Why Is a Texas Baseball Hall of Fame Museum Presence in Houston Important?
Although the answer may seem obvious, Id like to talk with you for a few moments about why the Board of the Texas Baseball Hall of Fame (TBHOF) is giving high priority to the business of finding the best ways and means for establishing a museum in Houstonone which honors Texas baseball history in a first class way. Lets simply begin with the most apparent needs, as defined by our organizational motto: Preserving History… Celebrating Excellence… Baseball Forever. Preserving History At the present time, we possess a small number of artifacts that are very important to the history of Texas baseball, but the items we now protect in storage pale numerically in comparison to the donations we could obtain, if we had a facility and a professional program established for assuring their proper care and public display. Without such a dedicated plan, thousands of items are disappearing annually. The artifact collection challenge may be summarized clearly here: Before artifacts of Texas basebal
