Sports Collectors Digest

COLLEGE FOOTBALL HALL OF FAME IS AN EYE-OPENING EXPERIENCE

Having lived my entire life within a couple hours of Cooperstown, I’m naturally partial to the National Baseball Hall of Fame when it comes to sports shrines.

The idyllic, small town at the south end of upstate New York’s Otsego Lake is the kind of place baseball should have originated, even if Abner Doubleday didn’t invent it and Cooperstown’s reputation as the game’s birthplace is entirely mythical.

The setting conjures up everything baseball purists enjoy most about the game by preserving an atmosphere that lets visitors step back in time to savor the sport’s

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