Handling the Curve: COVID-19 and Major League Baseball
2020 was a season unlike any in baseball history. Handling the Curve: COVID-19 and Major League Baseball explores the enormity of impact that COVID-19 exerted on America’s national pastime.
Handling the Curve includes artifacts and photographs from Major League teams, oral histories, 3D models and cutting edge data visualizations presented in mixed reality to investigate Covid’s impact on our national pastime during the 2020 season, as well as public health consequences of the virus for the communities surrounding the stadiums where baseball is played.
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The Museum offers interactive, sports-based education experiences that explore topics in STEM, history and language arts.
At-Home Learning Through Baseball
Free, multimedia lesson plans explore important topics of Race, Immigration, Gender & Financial Literacy through the lens of baseball. Virtual learning has never been more accessible or fun.
Exciting readings, off-screen activities, thought-provoking questions and multimedia tools create an engaging, accessible learning experience for middle and high school students. And our plans meet NJ State and Common Core National Standards, so they're the perfect supplement to classroom curriculum.
A Glimpse of the Museum
Exhibit Spotlight
Part of our new exhibition, Handling the Curve: Covid-19 and Major League Baseball, this model of Yankee Stadium has been 3D printed with meticulous details, even including a mini Monument Park. The jumbo screen features a Yankees vs. Mets game that was played during the 2020 season, when fans were not allowed in the stands out of precaution.
