Baseball diehards might wax nostalgic about trips to Yankee Stadium, Fenway Park or Wrigley Field, but no place on earth is closer to “baseball heaven” than the National Baseball Hall of Fame. Nearly every great ballplayer has a bust in Cooperstown, and more boys of summer will join in the seasons to come.

To put what the Hall of Fame is about into focus, Cassidy Lent, a researcher at the museum, joins “Talking Baseball!” to talk about what is behind the place and what is in front of it.