Baseball Hall of Fame to Honor Scouts with New Exhibit

The National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum opens its new Diamond Mines exhibit this weekend, which is dedicated to the labor of baseball scouts.

With some of the game’s top talent-finders in attendance for the festivities, museum visitors will have a chance to experience those stories first hand at a special Voices of the Game event.

Hall of famer Pat Gillick, 2011 Buck O’Neil Award winner Roland Hemond and Texas Rangers scout and senior special adviser Don Welke will participate in a Voices of the Game round table discussion at 10 a.m. on Saturday as part of the opening weekend of Diamond Mines exhibit.

Tickets for this event, which will be held in the museum’s Grandstand Theater, are free but limited and must be reserved in advance by calling 607-547-0397 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. any weekday.

The museum will unveil the new interactive exhibit Diamond Mines on Saturday with dozens of scouts and other team personnel on hand for the celebration. The exhibit, located on the museum’s second floor, will feature an interactive display called "An Anatomy of a Scouting Report" that includes more than two dozen reports on players.