Hotel The Baseball (Richfield Springs, USA)

About Hotel The Baseball

The 2-star Baseball Hotel in Richfield Springs offers use of the following at the Lake House 1 mile away on the Lake: 24-foot gazebo, canoes, rowboats, water ski (extra fee), barbecue grills, fire pit, bonfire, fishing off docks, team parties, pontoon boat rentals. The latest hotel was famous for the sulfur baths that Richfield Springs became famous for in the 1800s into the mid 1900s. The area is now the home of the Baseball Hall of Fame and a mecca for baseballs fans from all over the world. The Cooperstown BaseBall Hotel, known in the glory days of Richfield Springs as the Terrace Hotel and Sulfur Bath Hotel, is the last standing hotel and bath house complex that marked the end of the most important era in the village's history. At the height of the Springs popularity, the village had numerous hotels and bath houses and was a popular summer destination. The Era of the Springs served such guests as inventor Thomas Edison, Governor and President Franklin Roosevelt, Cyrus McCormick of McCormick Harvester, Gen. George McCellan, writer Sarah Orne Jewitt, and Oscar Wilde and many others in the late 1800s and early 1900s. Now it will cater to baseball families, providing lodging for large groups.