ANNALS OF COOPERSTOWN
At 72, He Ends His Baseball Career
With Dignity – At Doubleday Field
Editor's Note: Doug Davis, 72, of Windham, Maine, fulfilled a lifelong dream this fall: At 72, he pitched from the mound in Cooperstown's Doubleday Field. This is republished from The Freeman's Journal and Hometown Oneonta newspapers of Nov. 5-6.
By DOUG DAVIS • Special to AllOTSEGO.com
On Sunday, Oct. 11, on Doubleday Field, I played my last baseball game.
For years I’d wanted to play a game on Doubleday, but for insurance reasons or unavailability it never happened.
I’d been coming up for years to see friends I played for or with, inducted into the hall, and learned to love this town. It is Baseball Heaven.
Last year, I invited a friend of mine, who had never been here, to come up with his wife and share a fall weekend with us in your town.
We came up Columbus Day weekend, and enjoyed the Cooperstown experience.
On Saturday morning, my wife Deb was walking our puppy when she spotted a group of guys in their late 50s, early 60s loading their cars with baseball equipment, and they began to talk.
