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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;CoachMike, post: 1898126, member: 69505&quot;]I was one of the approximately 200 entries for this Hall of Fame coin design. Having coached Little League for over forty years and collect coins for even longer I thought I could come up with a winning design. Many intital entries were not sure whether or not to include information, words, buildings, stadiums etc. specific to the Hall of Fame. Mid-contest, they told us no mention of the Hall of Fame was to be included, just baseball in general. The winning designer was to receive $5000 and have his/her initials on the coin. I don&#039;t see any sign of her initials from the pictures I&#039;ve seen. </p><p><br /></p><p>The true artist was given an advantage as the submission had to be done by the artist. I&#039;m sure many others that can&#039;t draw had even better ideas for this coin. The mint could have used their &quot;idea&quot; to use its engravers to do the final artwork.</p><p><br /></p><p>It seems it would have been best to have used several different &quot;scenes&quot; on the three denominations, rather than all six coins being the same design. The glove, which is great for simplicity, would have probably been on the smaller gold coin. More details artwork would work better on the larger denominations.</p><p><br /></p><p>My design tried to refer indirectly to the Hall of Fame rather than generic baseball, which was selected. The number 75 on the modern day batter represented the purpose of the coin being the 75th anniversary of the Baseball Hall of Fame. The pitcher was from the 1939 era, which is when the H of F began. The H of F is the stars of baseball, thus the curved stars on the upper left. Finally and most important, the scene is a curve ball to take full advantage of the curved coin. My design was never considered. It was completed and sent 15 minutes prior to the deadline. They then requested a second copy of the entry be sent a different method for another use and by the time I learned how to send that second particular file, it was one minute past the deadline and was refused.</p><p><br /></p><p>Anyway, if anyone was wondering why no mention of the Baseball Hall of Fame was included on the designs or any other rules given to us, I&#039;ll try to help you out here.[ATTACH=full]324183[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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