COOPERSTOWN, N.Y. — So, I’m walking down Main Street, the best Main Street in the world, I peer into a shop window and see this T-shirt for sale: “I was not in the Mitchell Report.’’

Two syringes are on the front of the shirt.

The Baseball Hall of Fame is in the right place. It’s just down the block at No. 25 Main Street, and it’s a place for stars, not drugs and having the chance to walk through the halls of Cooperstown earlier this week with Goose Gossage and Ted Spencer, chief curator, was a special gift from the baseball gods.

Here are a few highlights: As we walked into the Vault, which holds the treasures not on display, we walked past a beautiful uniform with New York printed in blue letters. On the tag was the name Hubbell. Yes, this was Carl Hubbell’s uniform with the New York Giants and it’s just sitting there, right next to Cal Ripken’s uniform. “Before the war,’’ Spencer tells me, “Giants uniforms had blue lettering.’’

Hubbell, for those too young to know, once struck out five future Hall of Famers in a row in an All-Star Game, starting with Babe Ruth, then Lou Gehrig, Jimmie Foxx, Al Simmons and Joe Cronin. Not bad.

We walk past the Old Comiskey pinwheel and Goose starts telling a story about the first day he pulled into the parking lot of the new Comiskey and tears well up in his eyes. That day he looked at what was left of the old Comiskey as he was signing autographs to a bunch of kids and just started crying.

The kids asked him what was wrong and Goose said he was just sad to see the Old Comiskey torn down. “That’s okay,’’ one kid said, “my dad cried too.’’ Then another chirped, “My dad cried too.’’

That’s the pull of a ballpark and that’s what some Yankee fans will feel when the old Stadium is replaced by the new one.

We also walked by an exhibit that featured a major league clubhouse and the two warning signs from MLB that are posted in every clubhouse, proclaiming, “No Gambling Allowed.’’

“They also talked to us every year in spring training about that,’’ Goose explained.

“You’d have to be crazy to gamble.’’

Now you know why Pete Rose is not in the Hall of Fame.

We come to the Babe Ruth exhibit and the last autograph signed by Ruth to his nurse Calvin Holderman. It was signed on the book, “The Babe Ruth Story.’’ Ruth had asked the nurse a number of times if the nurse wanted his autograph and the nurse always said, “We’ll get it to tomorrow.’’

Finally, on this night, Ruth told the nurse, “If I don’t do it tonight, I never will.’’

Ruth signed the autograph and died later that night, Aug. 16, 1948.

“I’m amazed at the research,’’ a wide-eyed Goose says a number of times on the tour. “What an incredible place.’’

They also have a picture in the photo vault of Goose with a cast on his pitching hand, a result of his fight with Cliff Johnson. He fell on the hand. “Stupid,’’ he says of the incident.

On this day the museum is nearly empty and visitors have the run of the place all for the price of a $14.75 ticket, if you have AAA. What a deal. The best deal in baseball.

Later Goose swings Babe Ruth’s bat and smiles. It’s the bat with nails in it, the one that was Ruth’s lucky bat. Goose holds Joe DiMaggio’s bat, same goes for Mickey Mantle’s. He touches Roger Maris’ uniform. Goose is like a little kid, like all of us are in the tour.

Beyond the amazing displays, be sure to check out the new exhibit on the view of Ebbets Field. And don’t forget, the people at the Hall of Fame are the friendliest people in the world and the most helpful. Ask them questions. They love to talk about their house.

Their library answers calls all the time to get the information for media or fans. “Two guys may be having an argument in a bar and they call us,’’ Spencer explains.

Later, Goose is in the Plaque Gallery, a stunning place, talking about what the Hall really means to him. “My dad always said, ‘You’re going to play in the majors someday,’ Goose explains with a faraway look in his eyes. “Putting on the Pinstripes was an out of body experience.’’

He thinks of his dad, Jack, who passed away years ago, and his mom, Sue, who died just a few years ago, and his eyes fill with tears. He thinks about the speech he will give at his induction and admits he will be crying like a baby. “I’ll be like (Bill Mazeroski) and probably have to roll up the speech and throw it away I’ll be crying so much.’’

Nothing wrong with that Goose. This is the place for tears and memories.

“The tour was overwhelming, really, the whole history of the game and what goes on here in the museum,’’ Goose says. “I hadn’t been through the museum since 1974 and it’s changed so much and the exhibits are incredible. For baseball fans, if you’ve never been to Cooperstown, get here.’’

Goose is right. Get here ASAP. Goose Gossage has earned another save.