(Baseball Hall of Fame)

A first day cover from the opening of the Baseball Hall of Fame, typewriter-addressed to Mr. Joseph A. Berinoto of Gutenberg, New Jersey, the cover printed with a design commemorating the baseball centennial and with a block of four 3-cent centennial stamps, postmarked Cooperstown N.Y. Jun 12 9-AM 1939, signed by eleven members of the Hall who attended the 1939 induction ceremony. Matted, framed, and glazed with a photograph of ten of the Hall of Famers.

Although the inaugural class to the Baseball Hall of Fame was elected in 1936, the Cooperstown shrine did not open until the summer of 1939. For that event, members of the first four classes attended the induction ceremony and eleven Hall of Famers signed this remarkable first day cover: Ty Cobb, Walter Johnson, Honus Wagner, and Babe Ruth (class of 1936); Larry Lajoie, Connie Mack, Tris Speaker, and Cy Young (class of 1937); Grover Cleveland Alexander (class of 1938); Eddie Collins and George Sisler (class of 1939).