Cool post Joy. I see my state of birth, California, doesn't didn't feature. There also aren't really any hall of fames that I know of near where I grew up.

However, I have been spending a lot of time studying Cuba this semester. Interestingly, there was a baseball hall of fame (Salón de la Fama del Béisbol Cubano) established in Havana in 1939. It had inductions from 1939-1961 when the Revolution reformatted the baseball system in Cuba. In 2014, an organization met to induct 25 more athletes into the hall of fame for the first time since 1961.