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20 Morristown Magazine The Collection that Connects us Grovewood Baseball Museum brings extraordinary history of the National past time to Morristown H e built it. Now, you can go. The GroveWood Baseball Mu- seum sits inside a strip mall in Morristown, Tennessee, next to a Subway and across from a nail salon. Its location is nearly as improbable as its existence, yet somehow both are perfect. The GroveWood Baseball Museum houses the private collection of Jamison Pack, a Co- cke County native who grew up to be a real estate investor who began collecting in ear- nest in 2013 after a trip to the Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York. Pack grew up loving baseball but fell out of touch with the game in the early 2000s. It was that trip to Cooperstown that reignited the passion and turned it into some- thing else. “Once I got back into it, started collecting some autographs,” he said. “After I first visi- ted the Hall of Fame, that’s when I really dove into he history. It was so cool to be right there in front of a Ty Cobb jersey or that bat that An Undershirt worn by Joe Dimaggio in a display case with a ball from the 54th game of his 56-game hit streak.