Cooperstown Dreams Park to open July 23 without masks or social distancing for vaccinated participants STAFF REPORT • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com Cooperstown Dreams Park is set to open Friday, July 23, without masks or any guidelines on social distancing, according to the park’s website. However, a vaccine will be required for participating children and adults. The opening will include no restrictions on high fiving or other physical contact, as well as face-to-face pin and baseball card training. The 2021 baseball…
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Coop baseball stays undefeated with big conference wins By GREG KLEIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com Cooperstown won two blowouts and a tight conference game with a controversial ending in a four-day stretch to stay undefeated in baseball. The Hawkeyes started the weekend by honoring their seniors at Doubleday Field on Friday, May 14, before a 14-1 win over Frankfort-Schuyler in a Center State Conference game. Chris Ubner hit a grand slam home run and pitched four scoreless innings for the…
EDITORIAL WHAT IF? Hosting MLB Event In Plaque Gallery Gets Wheels Turning The idea was to bring fans to Cooperstown. What about taking Cooperstown to the fans? In the Age of COVID, the second sentence is a more intriguing one. And it played out this week with the Baseball Writers’ Association of America’s annual announcement of the Induction Class of 2021. While it turned out there was no one to announce this year, the MLB Network spent the afternoon transmitting…
STOPS AT DOUBLEDAY FIELD Schumer Promises Help For Local Governments Against a backdrop of pure Americana – the Stars & Stripes, Doubleday Field and the Sandlot Kid – U.S. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-NY, the state’s senior senator, this afternoon pledged federal support that would go directly to local governments in the support package now being negotiated in Congress. He appeared with county board Chairman David Bliss, left, and Treasurer Allen Ruffles, who have been pleading for that kind…
Interpretative Signage Unveiled At Doubleday…
$5M Redo of Doubleday In Time For Anniversary By JIM KEVLIN• Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – “Personally, for me, The Sandlot Kid, in a place of prominence,” said Mayor Ellen Tillapaugh Kuch when asked about the most meaningful part of the $5-million-plus redevelopment of Doubleday Field. “He’s so special.” Victor Salvatore’s bronze sculpture of a barefoot farm boy with a bat on his shoulder was installed in 1939, when the Doubleday Field grandstand was completed. “One of the true icons of…
COOPERSTOWN REDO NEARS END Entrance Arch Rises At Doubleday Field…
EDITORIAL Will Improvements To Main Street Ever End? No, Shouldn’t Begun inauspiciously in March 2014 with the felling of 37 trees on Main Street, a remarkable series of successes has followed in the reinvention of downtown Cooperstown for 21st century tourism. The environmentally sensitive rain gardens, new sidewalks, streetlights, replacement of 19th century water mains and sewerage – even a new flag pole, embroiled in controversy as it now is – have followed in quick succession. • But it’s not…
Pioneer Park Stage, Doubleday Field Bleachers Part Of Cooperstown Upgrades…
Mayor To Brief Public On Multiple Projects Downtown Upgrades, Doubleday Field, Pioneer Park, Sewage Plant On Agenda COOPERSTOWN – Mayor Ellen Tillapaugh Kuch will update the public on several village projects due to begin right after Labor Day at an informational meeting at 6 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 28, in Village Hall’s second-floor ballroom, which is accessible by elevator from the Fair Street entrance. Topics to be covered include the waste-water treatment plant improvement project, Pioneer Park upgrades, the continuation of…