Idelson aims for smooth Hall transition, induction By GREG KLEIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com The National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum will have an encore from its former leader, as Jeff Idelson returned May 15, as interim president. Idelson, who left the Hall in 2019, after 25 years, including more than 12 as president, replaced Tim Mead, his hand-picked successor. Mead left mid-May, saying the isolation from his family in Southern California during the coronavirus pandemic made him unable…
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For Mead, family separation became too tough By CHARLIE VASCELLARO • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com It came as a surprise to the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum and the baseball community at large when Tim Mead stepped down from his position as President of the Hall of Fame after less than two years on the job. What would seem to be the dream job for almost anyone who works in the baseball industry was never fully realized for Mead…
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…
Thank Heaven For Derek Jeter No 2021 Inductees, No Schilling, No Bond, No Clemens By CHRYSTAL SAVAGE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com If not for Derek Jeter and his Classmates of 2020, this would have been another sparse summer for baseball in Cooperstown. For the first time since 2013, the Baseball Writers’ Association of America elected none of the 25 Hall of Fame candidates above 75 percent, leaving the class of 2021 at zero. Hall of Fame President Tim Mead announced…
BULLETIN NO ONE WINS PLAQUE IN HALL…
Lieutenant Governor Visits Cooperstown Kochul Makes A Pitch: NYers, Plan ‘Staycation’ By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – Lt. Gov. Kathy Hochul had a message for New Yorkers – the best way to vacation is right in your backyard. “I live in the western part of the state, and I’m surprised at how many of my neighbors have never been to Niagara Falls,” she said. “There are no lines! This is a chance for 19 million New Yorkers…
HOCHUL AT TOURISM ROUNDTABLE ‘Market To Staycations,’ Lieutenant Governor Says…
MONEY COMES FROM CARES ACT Delgado Grant Helps Keep Hall, Fans Linked COOPERSTOWN – Congressman Antonio Delgado, D-19, today announced $300,000 in federal funding for the National Baseball Hall of Fame for “virtual education” and access to the digital collection. The money will come through the National Endowment for the Humanities and was approved through the House and Senate through the bipartisan CARES Act. Calling the Hall “an iconic landmark and driver of the local economy,” Delgado said “it is…
Baseball Hall of Fame Welcomes Fans Back By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN For the second time in history, the Baseball Hall of Fame had an opening day. “It’s only the second opener, after the day we first opened,” said Tim Mead, Hall of Fame president. “It puts it in perspective.” On Friday, June 26, nearly 81 years to the day of the first June 12, 1939 opening, Oneonta’s Steve Pindar, visitor services director, opened the glass door…
The One’s Still The One – Later Jeter’s Celebration Lives, Only In 2021, Hall President Says By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – Just because Derek Jeter’s induction has been postponed for a year doesn’t mean that we’ve missed out on the big one. “His induction will still be the one,” said Tim Mead, president, Baseball Hall of Fame. “Instead of focusing on it for five years, we’ll have to focus for six. But it will still be…