Take Me Out to The Museum

摘要

A TICKET TO OPENING day for your favorite team is a prize some fans wouldn't trade for 20 Roger Clemens autographed baseballs.Still,it isn't the only way for a baseball diehard to celebrate the start of the season.If you can't secure a seat at the game,you can always visit a museum.Baseball museums can't compete with the ballpark for the excitement of a squeeze bunt or the taste of a hot dog slathered with sauerkraut.But what they lack in ambiance they make up in their evocation of the rich history of the game.Baseball is a natural subject for museum treatment given its inextricable links to American culture,says Jeffrey Idelson,vice-president of the National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown,N.Y.