Baseball Heritage Museum

The Baseball Heritage Museum is at 6601 Lexington Avenue, inside League Park in the historic Hough neighbourhood of Cleveland, the original home of Cleveland baseball. It is an independent 501(c)(3) non-profit, and in 2014 it moved from the Gateway District into the former ticket office at the newly renovated League Park. The museum is dedicated to preserving the artifacts and stories of baseball's past with a special focus on diversity in the sport, and it describes League Park as a third space, a place beyond home and work where people can gather, learn, reflect and play. It opens Wednesday to Sunday, 9 to 5, closed on MLK Jr. Day, Thanksgiving, Christmas Day and New Year's Day. Admission is $10, free for children aged 9 and under and for current and former military with ID. Guided group tours, K-12 field trips and private tours are offered, and free baseball and softball games are played on the field in spring and summer. Two things are worth knowing about the accessibility information here.

 

First, the museum building is the non-profit's, but League Park itself is a City of Cleveland park, so the ballfield, the dugouts and the park entrance are City infrastructure and the museum's claims about the park are its own, not the City's. Second, and more important, most of the museum's Accessibility page is copied from the Smithsonian National Museum of Asian Art's accessibility page. Some sentences were edited to name Lexington Avenue, the front desk and League Park. Others, including the claims about an elevator and about every restroom being accessible, were left word for word unchanged from a description of a different building in Washington, DC. Each row below says which kind it is relying on.