Creating the Baseball Hall of Fame plaques

Every inductee into the Baseball Hall of Fame has a bronze plaque with their likeness and a few words about them. One full size plaque is made for the Hall of Fame and one miniature plaque is given as a memento to the Hall of Famer (or their family).

Paul Lukas of ESPN's Page 2 took a look at the process of making the plaques.

With hundreds of thousands of fans visiting Cooperstown each year, Ellis is arguably the highest-profile sculptor in America -- and yet also, paradoxically, one of the most anonymous. I wanted to learn more about how the plaques are manufactured, so I recently visited Pittsburgh to see Ellis at work and watch the rest of Matthews' production process (you can see a video of my visit at the top of this page).