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Cooperstown Observed by Sam Goodyear

Rome on the Susquehanna

All roads lead to Rome, a saying that arose in medieval France, but that was then and this is now. A cursory inspection of the license plates in the Doubleday Field parking lot, as well as the license plates in The Otesaga Hotel parking lot, will lead to the altered conclusion that all roads lead to Cooperstown. Idaho, Alaska, California, Texas, New Hampshire, Quebec, Kentucky, Nova Scotia, New Mexico, and Rhode Island are all cases in point.

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