Annual attendance at the Hall of Fame and Museum regularly approaches 350,000 and twice has topped 400,000. The shrine is open year round, and during July and August it is not unusual for the daily count to exceed Cooperstown’s population. The biggest day of the year, of course, is Hall of Fame day when the newly elected members are inducted. Many league executives, club officials, former players, and coaches and previously- inducted Hall of Famers participate in the emotion- packed program, witnessed by thousands of baseball fans from all over the United States and Canada. The following day, two major league teams clash in the annual Hall of Fame Game at Doubleday Field. The ball field, just a block away from the Museum, is located on the former Elihu Phinney cow pasture where baseball was ounce believed to have been first played more than a century ago. The Village Board of Trustees transformed the pasture into a ballpark of major league specifications in 1939, and now it seats approximately 10,000 fans.