Cooperstown, New York has housed the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum since 1936, and this Great Museums TV production made for public television goes inside its collection of plaques, jerseys, bats, and equipment tied to the sport's best-known players. Interviews with baseball historians, museum staff, and fans explain how the induction process works: a small number of players are voted in each year, and a bronze plaque is added to the gallery that forms the museum's centerpiece. The film moves through the building's galleries, showing how artifacts from specific games and careers end up preserved behind glass, and it treats the museum's small-town setting, a village of a few thousand people that becomes a pilgrimage site every summer during induction weekend, as part of the story. Rather than covering the sport's full history, the film stays focused on the institution itself: how it collects, what it chooses to display, and what induction means to the players who receive it and the fans who travel to see it.