National Baseball Hall of Fame Commemorative Coin Act signed into law

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Baseball Hall of Fame Coins - we are on a roll now

 

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Yah, probably a teeny-tiny holographic baseball card implanted into the reverse of each coin.

 

The obverse is a picture of the New York Yankees.

 

I'm a huge baseball fan. The good news is they will finally be producing a commemorative that does not have a war-related theme and also without a politician's mug on it.

Whoever came up with this idea should be labeled a visionary relative to the crapola commemoratives that have been issued over the past few years. Here's hoping for the best.

 

I am also a huge baseball fan. I hope the MLB logo is depicted on the coin. TC

 

This will be a pretty big deal, usually to get a contract signed by MLB and MLBPA is no easy feat. Hopefully the designers won't screw up the artwork and give us some breathtaking coinage.

 

just a note as some people can tend to forget, it is NOT the MLB Hall of Fame, it's the National Baseball Hall of Fame. This is more inclusive and represents more than just the two leagues that comprise MLB. The Negro Leagues, the Federal League and various minor leagues are also represented.

 

As an important aspect of our society and history, why not. But commerate the grass roots, kids playing in the back yard, historical side of it, not the current MLB big business side. No logos please.

 

There ya go! I agree with this. Personally I would see more value in seeing "event" inspired pieces like we used to see in the early commems. Here are a couple different types I wouldn't mind seeing.

Breaking the color barrier
Our baseball heroes go to war (WW2)
Record breaking events (Joe D's consecutive games streak, Babe Ruth 715, Mantle/Maris 1961 Home Run Chase)
Opening of Cooperstown
First World Series

The list goes on and on, but do you see the potential?

 

You are right Mike. They will probably do something like the BSA coin.

 

You must be a Yankee fan. I doubt it will be team specific or commemorate a specific record. Mikenoodle is right that they will try to be inclusive...likely Doubleday Field or Cooperstown Museum on reverse and obverse of man, woman and child dressed in uniforms on obverse...think BSA commemorative.

 

El Beisbol........I'm a BIG fan.

 

It's for the Hall of Fame, we'll get a picture of the building.

Reading the bill, it calls for the $5 and $1 coin to be convex on the reverse and concave on the obverse, so they will not be a flat coin like all the rest of our coins.

They will be minted in 2014, the 75th anniversary of the hall of fame.

There will be three coins a five dollar gold, a silver dollar and an half dollar. All the coins will have the same design.

(1) IN GENERAL- The Secretary shall hold a competition to determine the design of the common obverse of the coins minted under this Act, with such design being emblematic of the game of baseball.

(d) Reverse Design- The design on the common reverse of the coins minted under this Act shall depict a baseball similar to those used by Major League Baseball.

All the surcharges go to fund the operation of the Hall of Fame.

 

Pete Rose!

 

And a Joe Jackson Black Sox scandal piece. Make it cartwheel sized and call it Black Betsy.

 

You know what, I'm not really, A's fan. In the midst of siting some examples, it just so happened to be 3 Yankee back to back jacks.

 

Make it inclusive. Have an engraving of Babe Ruth shoving his piano into the Charles River, and remarking "you will never win without me" back in 1918, when traded to the Yankees. They didn't for 86 years!!!

 

Babe Ruth never hit #715, but Hank Aaron did and although you can say whatever you want about Barry Bonds, he's not (and probably won't be) a Hall of Famer (for a long time, if ever).

Breaking the color barrier has already been done. In 1998 the Jackie Robinson commemorative coins saluted that very feat. Joe D's streak and the first world series also are MLB events and as such are not purely Hall of Fame related.

I do think that something commemorating or celebrating the museum itself (which is really what Cooperstown is) would be more suited. I again remind you that the coin is to commemorate the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum, not MLB.

 

Check my last post, the law covers the design. All three coins are the same and the reverse is a baseball, just a baseball. The obv is the be emballic of the game of baseball.

 

Cooperstown is a very nice place to visit. I've been there a few times.