Phil Rizzuto
Entering you see two large display cases in front of you although with a display housing various newspaper clippings.
Along the right hand wall are various plagues and honors donated by Phil Rizzuto.
Turning around you see some of the "holy cow" memorabilia. Among these are the holy cow mailbox and the original holy cow banner that accompanied the Hillside buses up to Cooperstown for the Hall of Fame ceremony.
A small television plays videos of Phil Rizzuto's induction into the Hall of Fame along with a larger documentary of his visit there on the days leading up to his induction.
An authentic "Phil Rizutto Louisville Slugger"
Phil Rizzuto donated $5,000.00 to the Hillside High School Scholarship Fund now known as the Hillside Scholarship Fund in the mid 1950's and then made additional donations to this fund and this initiated an annual scholarship to a student in the name of Phil Rizzuto. In 1994 Phil Rizzuto as nominated to be inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, N.Y. The trustees of the Hillside Scholarship Fund decided to run a fundraiser for the Hillside Scholarship Fund. Alan D. Zimmerman who was president of the Hillside Scholarship Fund and knew Phil since he was at the age of 10 took charge of the committee and Cora Rizzutto, the wife of Phil was a trustee of the Hillside Scholarship Fund and the other trustees decided to run a fund raiser for the Hillside Scholarship Fund which would be a bus trip to Cooperstown, N.Y. for Phil's fans for his induction. We promoted this event and it ended up that we needed six buses. We had about 300 fans on the buses and we raised money for the Hillside Scholarship Fund. Alan D. Zimmerman, President of the Hillside Historical Society and trustees decided to petition off a separate section of the barn to make room for the awards, pictures and other items to be displayed in the Phil Rizzuto All Sports section. Many of the items were donated by Phil and Cora Rizzuto.