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The 2 , 600 year - old game of polo is one of the fastest , roughest , and most dangerous sports played today . The Museum of Polo and Hall of Fame is a not - for - accumulation educational organization dedicated to adopting an appreciation of the minutiae of the game by collecting , attention , exhibiting and interpreting its collections , as well as anniversary those who accept made outstanding contributions to the action . The Museum began as a vision of four polo players , H . Jeremy Chisholm , Phillip L . B . Iglehart , Leverett S . Miller , and George C . Sherman , Jr . , who had dreamed of establishing a place to honor and preserve the history of the sport . A multi - media theater is a allotment of the Museum that features important films and videos of the sport and the library contains many books , journals , magazines , statistical and written annal , all of which are accessible for research . The building is a antecedent of growing pride in the association as a abode for research and study about a sport that has authentic a special segment of our American heritage .