BRONX, N.Y. — Brian Richards didn’t become interested in baseball until he was 16 years old.
That’s shocking considering how much he loves the game and it’s captivating history. Richards, the curator of the New York Yankees Museum, turned an internship with the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum into his dream job.
Growing up in Hughesville, Pa. — just 15 miles from baseball-rich Williamsport — baseball was inevitably going to be in Richards’ future. His dad, a Baltimore Orioles fan, brought him to his first baseball game in 1999 as a teenager.
“I really fell in love with baseball history as I fell in love with baseball,” Richards
