Doubleday Field Tapestries
Description: Doubleday Field is a baseball stadium in Cooperstown, New York named for Abner Doubleday and located two village blocks from the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum. The grounds have been used for baseball since 1920, on what was Elihu Phinney's farm. A wooden grandstand was built in 1924, later replaced by a steel and concrete grandstand built in 1939 by the Works Project Administration. Subsequent expansion has increased seating capacity to 9,791 spectators.
Description: Baseball Nostalgia, Inc. was founded in November, 1974 by Bill Himmelman, Mike Aronstein and Pete Henrici in Cooperstown NY. The previous year they had opened Sports Nostalgia along with sports cartoonist Bob Laughlin and boxing referee and publicist Lew Eskin in Upper Saddle River, NJ. In 1974 they opted to lease the original concession area of the Doubleday Batting Range. The doorway was approximately 100 feet from the home plate on historic Doubleday Field.
