Mr. Cannon was, indeed, a serious scholar, but the artifacts he collected invariably prompted a smile — as did his use, at his wife’s suggestion, of the word “reliquary,” which means a container for holy relics. “I was interested in things that other museums weren’t interested in collecting,” Mr. Cannon told Pasadena Weekly in 2017. “Like, if they wanted bats and gloves, I wanted things to keep famous stories alive. But this year Whittier College in Whittier, Calif., agreed to become the collection’s new home. In 2015, Whittier became the home of the Institute for Baseball Studies, a center for research containing books, artwork, periodicals and historians’ papers about the national pastime, donated by Mr. Cannon and many other sources.

Source: New York Times August 09, 2020 14:26 UTC