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HAPPENIN’ OTSEGO for SUNDAY, MAY 28

HAPPENIN’ OTSEGO for SUNDAY, MAY 28 Wounded Warrior Softball Double Header DOUBLE HEADER – 12:30 p.m. The Wounded Warrior Amputee Softball Team face off against 1st the Cooperstown Fire Dept. and then a team of representatives from the sponsors of the game. Doubleday Field, Cooperstown. Info, woundedwarrioramputeesoftballteam.org/event/cooperstown-ny/ PADDLE BOARD DEMOS – 10 a.m.-3 p.m. If you’ve ever wanted to try stand-up paddling, here’s your chance. Free. General Clinton Park, 2507 Hinkley Ln., Bainbridge. Info, www.canoeregatta.org/SUP.html…

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BASE Race Kicks Off Day Of Celebration

HALL OF FAME CLASSIC 2017 BASE Race Kicks Off Day Of Celebration In his unmistakable bright yellow, Oneonta’s Brandon Gardner, who’s been running distance events since he was 8 years old, accelerates from the starting line at this morning’s Hall of Fame BASE Race, which starts and end in Cooperstown’s Doubleday Field.  This is the sixth BASE race – it stands for “Be A Superior Example.”  Fees collected help underwrite a Hall program aimed at encouraging young athletes to embrace…

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HAPPENIN’ OTSEGO for SATURDAY, MAY 27

HAPPENIN’ OTSEGO for SATURDAY, MAY 27 Hall Of Fame Classic HOF CLASSIC GAME – 1:05 p.m. The seven inning Hall of Fame Classic game begins. Preceded by the Home Run Batting Contest by Big League Players at Noon. Tickets, $12.50 First and Third base seats, $11 general admission outfield seats. Doubleday Field, Cooperstown. Info, (877) 726-9028, baseballhall.org/visit/hall-of-fame-classic. WWAST SOFTBALL GAME – Noon. Wounded Warrior Amputees play softball against the Oneonta Police and Fire Departments. Support your heroes. Admission by donation. Concessions…

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Netting Installed At Doubleday To End Pigeon-Dropping Woes

Netting Installed At Doubleday To End Pigeon-Dropping Woes A team from Erlich Pest Control, Buffalo, is installing netting under the rafters at the Doubleday Field grandstand today, a $20,000 project that has been under discussion for years to prevent pigeon droppings from falling on fans in the seats below. If you’re interested in having something similar for your event, consider checking out websites similar to https://www.apexbirdcontrol.uk/service/anti-bird-netting-brighton. The Erlich team – Tim Hartnett, Jason Franklin and Alfonso Strickland – just completed…

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At 72, He Ends His Baseball Career With Dignity – At Doubleday Field

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…

Tourism Industry Donates $8,000+ In Sweat Equity

Tourism Industry Provides $10,000 In Sweat Equity By JIM KEVLIN • for allotsego.com COOPERSTOWN – Three dozen volunteers from Tourism Cares are painting the bleachers at Doubleday Field at this hour, part of a national effort that allows hundreds of tourism professionals to “give back” annually. The volunteers will be able to say, “I painted the outfield wall at Doubleday Field and swung a bat at home plate,” said Jay Smith of Sports Travel & Tours, Hatfield, Mass., the official travel…

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