Press Release: Baseball Hall of Fame’s Picturing America’s Pastime Exhibit Opens Aug. 26 in Laurel, Miss.

 

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Aug. 11, 2025 -- Traveling Photo Exhibition Runs at the Lauren Rogers Museum of Art through Nov. 15 -- (COOPERSTOWN, NY) – The National Pastime and the art of photography came of age almost simultaneously, and baseball has long been a favorite subject of professional and amateur shooters alike.   This year at the Lauren Rogers Museum of Art in Laurel, Miss., fans can view some of the game’s most telling images from the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum’s world-renown archive in the traveling exhibition Picturing America’s Pastime: A Snapshot of the Photograph Collection at the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum.   Debuting Tuesday, Aug. 26, and running through Nov. 15, Picturing America’s Pastime features 51 framed photographs representing the Hall of Fame’s collection of approximately a quarter million images. Picturing America’s Pastime shows the historic link between the two American passions.   Featuring work from photographers spanning generations, like Charles M. Conlon, Carl J. Horner, Arthur Rothstein, William C. Greene and Brad Mangin – along with many unidentified photographers whose images have been donated to the Museum – Picturing America’s Pastime captures the grandeur of the early game to the vibrancy of today’s sport through images in sepia, color and black-and-white.   Picturing America’s Pastime will also be traveling to the Kentucky Gateway Museum Center in Maysville, Ky., Jan. 1-March 15, 2026; and the Upcountry History Museum at Furman University in Greenville, S.C., June 20-Oct. 25, 2026.   The National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum is an independent nonprofit educational institution, dedicated to fostering an appreciation of the historical development of baseball and its impact on our culture by collecting, preserving, exhibiting and interpreting its collections for a global audience as well as honoring those who have made outstanding contributions to our National Pastime. Opening its doors for the first time on June 12, 1939, the Hall of Fame has stood as the definitive repository of the game’s treasures and as a symbol of the most profound individual honor bestowed on an athlete. It is every fan’s "Field of Dreams," with its stories, legends and magic shared from generation to generation.