Hot Springs Baseball Trail Gets Award
by October 2, 2014 4:17 pm 90 views
Hot Springs’ Historic Baseball Trail, a series of 28 historical markers throughout the city commemorating it as the Birthplace of Major League Baseball Spring Training, is being awarded the 2014 Award for Outstanding Achievement in Preservation Education by the Historic Preservation Alliance of Arkansas.
The award will be presented during a banquet in January.
More than 45% of the inductees in the Major League Baseball Hall of Fame either played in or were associated with Hot Springs during its heyday, according to a release from Visit Hot Springs, the city’s convention and visitors bureau.
Babe Ruth played there to get ready for the season, and so did Ty Cobb, Stan Musial, Hank Aaron and many other legends.
A documentary film, “The First Boys of Spring,” is being filmed by Larry Foley, chairman of the Journalism Department at the University of Arkansas-Fayetteville and a multiple-Emmy Award winner. The film will make its debut during the 2015 Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival.