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1. Abner Doubleday, left, is the reason the Hall of Fame is in Cooperstown, whether or not he invented baseball. This image is a spoof, put together on the Texas Vintage Baseball League website.

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Brothers Travis and Jacob Granger of Eastern Energy Solutions, Afton, reinstalled eight refurbished streetlights on Main Street, Cooperstown, on Wednesday, July 16, in time for the 75th anniversary Hall of Fame Induction. New asphalt was laid along the street on the 22nd, all part of a $2 million redo now underway.

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ON TV: The MLB Network again plans to broadcast the Induction Ceremony 1:30-4:30 p.m. on the 27th. BLISSFUL SOUND: Eric Bliss, Cooperstown Central grad who sang the National Anthem when President Obama was here in May, will do so again at Induction. PLAQUES PLACED: The public is welcome to watch the new plaques hung at the Hall at 7 p.m. Sunday, after the ceremony.

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1st Daughter To Broadcast From Otesaga resident George W. and First Lady Laura Bush’s daughter, Jenna Bush Hager, was scheduled to anchor NBC’s “Today” show Thursday, July 24, at The Otesaga, beginning at 6 a.m. Jenna was to be joined by correspondent Natalie Morales as the baseball world focused on Cooperstown for the start of the 75th anniversary Hall of Fame Induction Weekend.

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Joe Torre in front of Babe Ruth’s plaque during his orientation tour of the Hall of Fame in March.

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e may not remember what he ate at that little Bronx restaurant 15 years ago – maybe chicken marsala, but Ted remembers who was dining just a few tables over. Jim Kevlin/The Freeman’s Journal “I was probably having the 5. Satchel Paige, above, whose statue was un6. The Oakland A’s special fan, Stacey Samuchicken marsala; it’s good veiled in Cooper Park in 2006, was the first Negro els with his whirligig cap, seen above during there,” he said. League player inducted, in 1971. (Fans examinRickey Henderson’s 2009 Induction, is one of “I was there with a bunch ing the statues the other day are Hall of Famer three notable enthusiasts often in evidence of baseball guys and they Brooks Robinson and his wife, Connie.) during Hall of Fame weekends over the years. introduced me to Joe Torre,” and would not have the completion of the Hall of Fame Editor’s Note: Dennis Corcosaid Ted Hargrove, the been allowed to but Alexander Cleland made it hapran, author of “Induction Day At unofficial “Mayor of Main leave the Academy. pen. During a visit to Cooperstown in Street” who last year sold his Cooperstown,” (McFarland, 2010), Hall of Fame 1934, Alexander Cleland, who worked TJ’s Place, for years an Inshared these must-know facts about president Jeff Idelfor Clark in New York City, found 75 years of National Baseball Hall of duction Weekend gathering son addressed the out that Cooperstown was preparFame Inductions. place for Hall of Famers and “Doubleday Myth” ing to celebrate baseball’s centenfans alike. “From then on, years ago by stating, nial. Cleland suggested that his boss Why Cooperstown? we were acquaintances.” “We stopped layto consider building a museum that Cooperstown became the Torre, the player-turneding claim to being would bring tourists to Cooperstown home of baseball because World-Series-winning-man2. Alexander the birthplace of for the centennial. Clark agreed of Abner Graves and not Abner ager, is among this year’s Cleland came baseball a long time wholeheartedly. They contacted Frick, Baseball Hall of Fame Doubleday. The Mills Commission up with the ago. The game has the president of the National League, was formed in 1905 to determine if Inductees, joining Tony La Hall idea, but evolved over time, and he was completely supportive, and Russa, Bobby Cox, Frank baseball was started in America or the support it wasn’t born in one suggested a Hall of Fame be included Thomas, Tom Glavine and elsewhere. Graves wrote two letters to of this man place.” to honor baseball’s greatest stars. them claiming Doubleday, the future Greg Maddox in a celebra– CooperThe Man Who The first, 25th and 50th birth- tion that is anticipated to Civil War general, taught him how stown’s SteMade the days. to play baseball during the summer phen C. Clark bring 40,000 people to town. Hall of Fame The Baseball Centennial was “There are a lot of other noof 1839 in Cooperstown. Graves was – ensured it a Reality . happened. celebrated for several months during 71 when he wrote the letters so he tables coming, but Joe’s the When you enter 1939 and was known as the Cavalcade key,” said Hargrove. “He’s would have been five years old when Doubleday taught him. Critics discred- the Plaque Gallery you see portraits of of Baseball with the pivotal day being the New York guy.” Stephen Clark and Ford Frick. Clark June 12, 1939 when the ited him because Doubleday would Added Brad Horn, the and Frick played important roles in Please See 10 THINGS, A8 have been a freshman at West Point Please See TORRE, A7

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Mysteriously, Concert Cancelled With No Explanation, Hall Announces 75th Anniversary Gift Gone By LIBBY CUDMORE COOPERSTOWN

ast week, there was the promise of music. This week, the sound of silence. Starting Saturday night,

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Clyde Griffiths (Christian Bowers) seduces Roberta Alden (Vanessa Isiguen) in Tobias Picker’s “An American Tragedy,” which opened Sunday, July 20, at The Glimmerglass Opera. For review, see WWW.ALLOTSEGO.COM

July 19, ticket holders who paid up to $400 to attend the Concert Celebrating the 75th Anniversary of the National Baseball Hall of Fame began receiving phone calls from Hall Vice President/Development Ken Meifert. The concert, featuring the Boston Pops, Paul Simon,

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Hunter Hayes, Bernie Williams, Juan Luis Guerra and Randy Newman, had been cancelled by the promoter, Loren Harriet of LGH19 productions, Los Angeles, Meifert told them. Over the weekend, no one from the Hall returned calls explaining what was going

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Sheriff Greene (Richard Brockman) grills Esther and Helen “Leggett” (Dierdre Bret and Patti Van Tassel) about the anti-Rent “calico Indians.”

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ephyr Teachout, the progressive candidate who is seeking to challenge Governor Cuomo in a primary for the Democratic nomination, will speak at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Aug. 8, at the county courthouse, sponsored by Sustainable Otsego. SO Moderator Adrian Kuzminski said his organization is not endorsing Teachout right now, but is “pleased” to give her a chance to share her views “on a number of pressing social issues.” CANCER SUPPORT: Cancer support groups are being planned at Bassett Hospital at 1 p.m. the second Wednesday of each month and 4:30 p.m. the fourth Wednesday at the Clinic Building. To participate, call Kathy Smith at 547-4963. VENDORS SOUGHT: The Goodyear Lake Association is seeking vendors for its Aug. 16 festival and the 5K Polar Bear run. Call 432-6992 or e-mail fstayter@gmail.com.

on. But Monday the 21st, Hall President Jeff Idelson broke the silence, saying in a statement: “We are extremely disappointed in today’s announcement by LGH19 Productions that the Concert Celebrating the 75th Anniversary of the National BasePlease See 75TH, A6

‘Gunplay’ At Museum, For The Fun Of It By LIBBY CUDMORE COOPERSTOWN

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As Village Historian Leigh Eckmair checks her mail, Postmaster Victoria Bonner mans the window in the Gilbertsville Post Office, whose 125th anniversary will be celebrated Sunday, Aug. 3, when a State Historic Marker is unveiled at nearby Overlook Park.

State Marker To Recognize Gilbertsville Heritage By JIM KEVLIN GILBERTSVILLE

or three-quarters of a century, beginning before World War I, the Army Corps of Engineers threatened this village of stately homes on Butternuts Creek with a flood of Biblical proportions. ostal OffiWith more and less urgency cials were in over the decades, the Corps Gilbertsville Tuesday, July 22, pursued the Upper Susquehanna detailing plans to Rivershed Project to build a dam cut back hours at Cope’s Corners, south of here, there. See that would have created a threeWWW.ALLOTSEGO.COM Please See HISTORY, B5

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tin horn sounds across the lawn of The Farmers’ Museum. At the Lippitt Farmhouse, the women whisper when they know Sheriff Moore is lurkNewell ing nearby and stash incriminating scraps of calico in their knitting baskets. At the Bump Tavern, an altercation breaks out over whether or not to pay rent to Albany landlords. And on the Village Green, a shot rings out and a man lies dead. But after the smoke from the pistol clears, no one calls for an ambulance or a constable – instead, the bystanders all clap. “Dramatic interpretation is such a wonderful complement to the third-person experiences we have at The FarmPlease See DRAMA, B5

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Hall’s 75th Concert Reflected Ambitious Innovation. Stick With It

t least Furthur, with its pot-smoking, acid-dropping entourage, showed up. That said, who doesn’t regret the collapse of the National Baseball Hall of Fame’s 75th anniversary concert just days before its much-anticipated Aug. 2 incarnation? The Boston Pops, Paul Simon, Randy Newman, Bernie Williams, Yolanda Adams, Juan Luis Guerra and Hunter Hayes, from Tanglewood to icons to Gospel, to a Latin beat, to a dreamy up-and-coming C&W star, how great is that? Or, rather, how great might that have been? What’s to be regretted is that the Hall of Fame couldn’t pull it off. It’s not to be regretted that the Hall attempted what was perhaps its most ambitious innovation since the decade-ago $20 million redo of its exhibits at 25 Main. Ambitious innovation, Hall of Fame President Jeff Idelson and his team should be much praised for that. That’s what the Hall needs. It would be a mistake to conclude that, since this blew up in everyone’s faces, ambitious innovation should never be pursued again. Quite the opposite. • That’s particularly the case since ambitious innovation is becoming more the rule than the exception in the increasingly exciting venues around Otsego Lake. Francesca Zambello’s Glimmerglass Festival is the poster child, evident again in Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s knock-out appearance over the weekend at the Alice Busch Opera Theater. It was her third year – and still fresh – discussing “Opera & The Law,” with voices of the Young American Artists punctuating her talking points with pathos (the confession scene from “Dead Man Walking”) and humor (“Stay, Frederic, stay! Nay, Mabel, nay!” from “Pirates of Penzance”) to current events (“The beautiful thing about our Constitution is that like our society, it can evolve,” the diminutive judge tells her

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Against the backdrop of a New York State map, part of the “Ariadne in Naxos” set, Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg evokes, if anything, more enthusiasm from the Alice Busch Opera Theater audience than in the past two years.

senior colleague in “Scalia/Ginsburg.”) Audience members – many beyond the leaping from their seats phase of life – leaped from their seats and madly applauded. That the 914 seats were filled with $40 patrons constitutes a nice piece of fundraising, too. Behind Ginsburg, equally interesting was the set from “Ariadne in Naxos,” which opened that night: A map of Upstate New York, with blinking cities, Oneonta among them. That, plus “An American Tragedy” and special programming throughout the season, punctuates Francesca Zambello’s intention to embrace the region, to create a Glimmerglass-centric operatic tradition, strengthening her institution and enriching the host region. Zambello’s out there, but Simon Thorpe’s Brewery Ommegang has been staging one

sold out concert after another for three years now. Jonathan Maney is mixing it up at Hyde Hall, Paul D’Ambrosio is piling successful exhibit on successful exhibit at The Fenimore, Jim Miles is experimenting with The Otesaga’s successful formula, adding a dock, a fire pit, a spruced up main floor and farm-to-table items to the menu. Ambitious innovators, all. • That the Hall of Fame begins to dream is good, too. That it couldn’t pull this one off is not the end of the world. Perhaps part of the answer is more attention to building the local constituency, as the Hall’s sister institutions have done with some success. While there are a relatively few 61,683 folks in Otsego County (the 2013 Census estimate), it’s easier to attract 5 percent from a 20-mile radius than the equivalent

3,000 from across the continental U.S.A. Even better, why not attract 3,000 from both. The Catskill Area Hospice (among others, but as successfully) has learned to do concerts, having staged one a year for the past decade and a half. The latest, Lynyrd “Sweet Home Alabama” Skynyrd, on July 11 at the former Soccer Hall of Fame campus, was the most successful to date, Hospice Executive Director Lola Rathbone reports, attracting 3,200 fans. Tickets ranged from $195, including stage-side seats, open bar and great food, and those 700 spots were sold out in a week. Second-tier tickets, $125, seats a bit farther back, with open bar for just an hour, also sold well. Other seats went for $55, and seats on the lawn, $39.50. Something for everybody. Perhaps the Hall of Fame’s mistake was trying to go it alone, or trying to go it with an L.A. promoter without the local advice of someone like a Craig Gelbsman, the local promoter Hospice uses. • No matter. Any 75-year-old institution can get a bit sclerotic; entities much younger need to open the windows to fresh ideas. There must be a way to enable that at the Hall of Fame, to make ambitious innovation, successful ambitious innovation, part of the DNA, with its home county a greater part of the formula, for the benefit of both. In a way, the collapsed concert is an exception that proves the rule: Most everything the National Baseball Hall of Fame does is exactly right. That no doubt will be the case as the Cooperstown community – locals, and fans from everywhere – enters what is expected to be the best attended and lively Hall of Fame weekend since RipkenGwynn in 2007. What better watershed for celebrating the past, and envisioning an ever more exciting future.

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Zagata ‘Anti-Environment Views Clear To Many’ To the Editor: Your recent laudatory and seemingly never-ending profile of profracker and former DEC commissioner Michael Zagata – quite possibly the longest article ever published in The Freeman’s Journal since it began 206 years ago – leaves readers wholly in the dark about why he has been severely criticized by environmentalists, The New York Times, and others. In their 1997 book, “The Riverkeepers,” John Cronin and Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., pointed out that then Governor Pataki fulfilled his promise to make the DEC more “business friendly” by appointing oil company executive Zagata as DEC commissioner. Zagata proceeded to replace DEC enforcement by industry “self-policing.” He dramatically reduced factory inspections, sped issuance of pollution permits by “steamrolling public par-

ticipation requirements,” and ordered inspectors to give six-month warnings instead of issuing tickets for “environmental crime.” Zagata cut the legal staff by 25 percent, firing “virtually all of the agencies’ Mike Zagata pollution litigawith his pointtors.” The DEC’s ers, Briar, 10, principal litigator, and Scout, 5. Chuck Dworkin, fired by Zagata, stated that “after the purge, everyone put their heads down and stopped enforcing. Now the big companies know they can thumb their noses at the regulated.” As a result, the authors wrote,

Zagata “quickly endeared himself to the worse polluters of New York State,” the worst of all being GE. At the time GE was facing up to $20 million in penalties for illegal conduct at its Waterford plant above Albany, which DEC counsel Joseph Kowalczyk called “the second most significant hazardous waste problem in the state.” After a “secret meeting” with GE, a deal was struck in which the DEC dropped all charges and claims, GE received some tax write offs, and the company got insulated from further lawsuits. GE in return agreed to spend $1.5 million on environmental benefit programs, including building a boat launch on the Hudson conveniently near Zagata’s Upstate home. Zagata’s anti-environmental views were clear to many, including The New York Times, even before his apPlease See LETTER, B5

Young Bahrs Stayed Calm, Cool. Maybe ‘Eskimos’ Helped To the Editor: That was a nice story (July 3-4) about former Soccer Hall president George Brown and his dad, James, who played with the U.S. national team for the World Cup in 1930 in Uruguay. The article mentioned (A-8) that Brown (Sr.) played with the GermanAmerican Soccer League with future Soccer Hall of Famers John Souza, Joe Maca and Walter Bahr. I met Walt Bahr in the summer of 1969 when I signed on to be a camp counselor at Camp Acadia, a Catholic camp in the Catskills (near Livingston Manor), where he was waterfront director and activities director, etc. It was the summer between my first and second year at St. Michael’s College. He was a gruff, no-nonsense kind of taskmaster around

Walt Bahr, at the end of the table, confers with counselors at Camp Acadia in the Catskills in the 1960s.

the Waterfront, but also had a warm side, it appeared to me. We were “colleagues,” I guess, in making sure 150 kids learned some sports and didn’t drown on us. One of the camp traditions involved the camp’s system of criminal prosecution – you could get demerits

for lots of transgressions, and Mr. Bahr could assign a camper (and maybe even a counselor – I forget) to do an “Eskimo.” An “Eskimo” was having to take a morning swim in the often very cool lake BEFORE the chapel’s 6:45 a.m. bells for the 7 a.m. Mass rang out. Even today, living near our lake, I will

tell my wife I am going to take an “Eskimo” in the morning. It was clear right away that the Bahr family was big time into soccer. Two of the Bahr children – Chris and younger Matt – were about 16 and 12 or so, as I recall. Chris was on a semi-pro team in the summer so his dad drove him down to the Philadelphia area on weekends for games. Little did I expect Chris and Matt Bahr to be NFL kicking sensations later down the road. I was not surprised, though. Chris, even at a young age, seemed to have “ice water in his veins” as they say – he seemed to stay calm, cool and collected no matter what the situation. Perfect attitude for an NFL kicker. GEORGE THABAULT Burlington, Vt.

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BOUND VOLUMES Compiled by Tom Heitz with resources courtesy of The New York State Historical Association Library

175 YEARS AGO

There is an admirable partition of qualities between the sexes, which the author of our being has distributed to each, with a wisdom that challenges our unbounded admiration. Man is strong – Woman is beautiful; Man is daring and confident – Woman is diffident and unassuming; Man is great in action –Woman in suffering; Man shines abroad – Woman at home; Man talks to convince – Woman to persuade and please; Man has a ragged heart – Woman a soft and tender one; Man prevents misery – Woman relieves it; Man has science – Woman taste; Man has judgment – Woman sensibility; Man is a being of justice – Woman an angel of mercy. July 22, 1839

200 YEARS AGO

75 YEARS AGO

Tomorrow, Cooperstown will receive an influx of boys from every part of the United States all hoping to be selected to play on the “All-American Amateur” baseball team representing the United States at the International Amateur Championships in Havana, Cuba from August 12 through 27. The boys coming to Cooperstown for tryouts have been selected as the outstanding amateur players from their respective communities. During ten days of trials at Doubleday Field judges will observe their play and rate each boy for consideration by the National Board of Selection which will name the “All-American Amateur” team members on August 5th. July 26, 1939

150 YEARS AGO

Lieutenant F.W. Foote of the 121st Regiment, reported killed, is alive and prisoner in Libby Prison, Richmond. He was wounded in an engagement on the 10th of May, captured, and was obliged to have a leg amputated above the knee. In a letter to his Mother he says: “I passed through everything safely until the 10th when about sunset, eight picked regiments selected from our corps were detached to charge a position of the enemy’s works consisting of strong rifle pits with a battery of 12-pound howitzers. We formed under cover of the woods without being observed. The 5th Maine and 121st N.Y. formed the first line of battle. Between us and the enemy was an open plain 300 yards across. We broke from the woods with one cheer and then advanced with a steady double-quick without firing or cheering until close to the works, when we fired a volley and went over them with a yell. It was nobly done and we did not stop here, but carried a second range of rifle pits and captured their battery. By this time our little force was considerably scattered and broken up; we were without supports; the enemy advanced on us with fresh troops and we were forced back. Just before we started I received a Minnie ball through my thigh, which brought me down. The next day I was carried to one of the enemy’s hospitals; the bone was found to be shattered and my leg was amputated. At the end of a week I was removed here where we have comfortable quarters with all that is necessary to keep us from suffering.” July 29, 1864

125 YEARS AGO

A lady who was recently traveling through this section of country, and who stopped at Richfield Springs, there remarked to some visitors: “I spent a few hours driving about the streets of Cooperstown; it seems to be especially the home of widows. When I inquired as to the ownership of a

50 YEARS AGO

July 28, 1814 fine residence, in about every instance, the reply was: “That belongs to Mrs. A., or Mrs. B., or Mrs. C.; then I went into a graveyard, and about the first headstone I approached contained the simple word ‘Husbands.’ Wasn’t it rather strange and suggestive?” (Ed. Note: Within the Christ Church graveyard is found a burial marker for the Husbands family, of which Joe Tom Husbands was a prominent member) July 26, 1889

100 YEARS AGO

Thursday was a red-letter day for the orphans of Cooperstown. In accordance with its annual custom, the local Automobile Club waved its fairy wand and transformed the 84 little people into a feverishly excited convention. The host of business men who loaned their cars for this worthy purpose seemed as delighted as the children themselves. The start was made shortly after 2 o’clock from the Orphan House of the Holy Savior and the route lay to Richfield Springs with a return late in the afternoon. At Richfield Springs the children were treated to soda water and sang several patriotic songs. As the long ribbon-like line of autos swept through the beautiful country there wasn’t a doubt that the trip would long be remembered by the fatherless and motherless little ones. July 22, 1914

The S.S. Lollipop, owned by Louis B. Hager of this village, made its first appearance recently on Otsego Lake. It is the first steam-powered boat launched on the lake since 1905 when the S.S. Mohican, an excursion boat, went down the ways. The Lollipop’s hull formerly was a Long Island lighthouse tender. It was reconditioned at W.T. Sampson Smith’s boatyard here, and a nine horsepower compound steam engine installed. It will drive the shaft at about 600 rpm. The boat has a top speed of 18 knots. It will be used as a pleasure boat by the Hager family. July 22, 1964

25 YEARS AGO

More than 500 people visited the Alice Busch Opera Theater at the first annual Glimmerglass Opera Community Open House on Sunday, July 16. Visitors from as far away as Pennsylvania and Texas, as well as Cooperstown and the surrounding region, enjoyed tours of the theater, scene and costume shops, wig and wardrobe rooms where production staff members demonstrated their crafts and explained the workings of an opera company. July 26, 1989

10 YEARS AGO

The Village of Cooperstown Board of Trustees voted Monday night to locate a planned Main Street public restroom near the entrance to Doubleday Field parking lot. The village has received a $56,000 grant and a promise of $50,000 more for the project. Members of the public were asked to express their opinions as to whether the restroom facility should be located in Pioneer Park or near Doubleday. July 23, 2004

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Mysteriously, 75th Concert Cancelled 75TH/From A3 ball Hall of Fame has been cancelled.” What happened? No explanation was forthcoming from the Hall or the promoter by press time. The first headliner, the Boston Pops, had been announced as the concert’s “house band” in June 2013. In February, Paul Simon was added to the roster, and from there, the lineup grew. Tributes to veterans, racial integration, women in baseball and Little League were planned, adding performers and multi-media. “This concert is going to be historic,” Harriet said in an earlier interview. As recently as Tuesday, July 15, Harriet announced that Emmy, Grammy and Oscar winner Randy Newman was the final headliner, conducting the Pops as they played the score from “The Natural.” “I’m bummed,” said Mayor Jeff Katz. “I love Paul Simon and I try to see him as often as I can. I was really looking forward to this show.” The concert was originally planned as a benefit, with all net proceeds going directly to the hall, who licensed its logo to Harriet to promote the show. The day-long event also featured a softball game with the Wounded Warriors, panel discussions about music and baseball, and pre-recorded tributes from Hall of Famers and current ballplayers. The Clark Sports Center field was set to be the venue, and listeners could either purchase tickets, ranging from $100-$400, to sit near the stage, or on the lawn for free.

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Many Pals Will Greet ‘Small Town Guy’ In Baseball Town TORRE/From A1 Hall’s VP/communications: “He has a wonderful aura, a real sense of grace under pressure. His personality is very representative of a New York State of mind.” Torre and Cox will be signing for Hargrove noon-3 p.m. Hargrove Monday, July 28, at the Ommegang Prohibition Shop, 134 Main St. “He wants to sign as many signatures as possible,” said Ted. “He’ll sign anything, he’s a real people person.” That friendliness was just as true when he came to Cooperstown March 24 to preview the spot in

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And though they’ve kept in touch since that first meeting, the last time Hargrove and Torre saw each other was at the funeral of Yogi Berra’s wife, Carmen, this past March. “We shared a lot of good conversations about his love of Yogi and Carmen,” he said. “We were all there to honor her.” In years previous, Berra signed exclusively at The Stables and this year, Torre seems to be taking up that mantle. “Me and Yogi, we go back about 25 years,” said Ted. And Hargrove hopes Berra, who had a fall in recent days, will come up for this weekend’s induction. “He might try to be here for Joe,” he said. When the autographs are signed and the photos have been taken, 40,000 people hope to see Torre inducted on the Clark Sports Center stage. “He made his mark in The Bronx,” said Horn. “But his legacy will be preserved in Cooperstown.”

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10 THINGS/From A1 National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum was officially opened. The first induction classes of 1936 thru 1939 were honored at the first induction ceremony as a crowd of 15,000 watched. It was held in the front of the Hall of Fame where it would be held through 1965. MLB gave itself a two day holiday as most of the VIPs arrived by train. 11 living Hall of Famers were there, including Eddie Collins, who offered the most memorable line of the day when he said, “I would be happy to be the batboy for a team like this.” The 25th anniversary of the Hall of Fame was celebrated on July 27, 1964. In honor of its Silver Anniversary a citation with 25 silver dollars on a cushion of red velvet was presented to the Hall. George Sisler was there, and being the only Hall of Famer from 1939 still alive, he received thunderous applause when he was introduced. There were seven inductees with a small crowd of 1,500 present.

In 1966 the ceremony was moved to Cooper Park, next to the Hall, and to the new Clark Sports Center in 1992, where it is held today. The Golden Anniversary (50th) was held close to the actual date on June 10, 1989. There was a huge parade in the morning. The final event of the day was the Equitable Old Timers Game at Doubleday Field that included 10 Hall of Famers and a crowd of 10,000. The same format would be used, beginning in 2009, when the Hall of Fame Classic was begun to replace the annual major league exhibition game. Congratulations! Today inductees are called right after the vote by the secretary of the BBWAA, but it wasn’t always that way. Joe DiMaggio didn’t know he had been elected to the Hall of Fame in 1955 until a truck driver informed him when he was driving back from Boston to New York. At the 1947 induction, none of the four living Hall of Famers, Frankie Frisch,

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10 THINGS/From A8 in Minneapolis, hitchhiked from his home 1,200 miles away to be there for the opening ceremony in 1939. Next is Stacey Samuels, a diehard Oakland A’s fan from San Francisco. I heard him playing his banjo during the Red Carpet Event on Saturday night of induction weekend in 2009, when Rickey Henderson was inducted; he was also here for Dennis Eckersley in 2004. He made the helicopDennis Corcoran holds ter hats himself, and had one up a copy of “Induction made of diamond studs for Day at Cooperstown.” Henderson. Third is Willis Gardner, ennis Corcoran, who Babe Ruth impersonator lives in the Hudson from Oberlin, Ohio. I met Valley, turned to him that same weekend in writing after retiring from 2009 as he was dressed in a a teaching career. He spent Yankee cap and shirt. He besix years researching what gan being Babe in 1991 and would become “Induction when Ruth’s grand daughDay at Cooperstown,” pubter, Linda Tosetti met him lished in 2011. in Cooperstown, she said, To meet Dennis, stop by “You are the grandfather I a one of the book signing’s he’s scheduled this weekend: never met.” • In Oneonta, 2-4 p.m., Memorable oratory Thursday, July 24, and noonI begin with Ted 2 Friday the 25th, at the Williams 1966 inducGreen Toad Bookstore, 198 tion and the most significant Main St. induction speech ever given. • In Coopertown, 3:30-5:30 At the end of his speech p.m., also Friday the 25th, Williams said, “Baseball 11-1 Saturday, and 8:30gives every boy a chance to 10:30 a.m. Sunday at Willis excel and I hope someday Monie Books, 139 Main St.

On his Induction weekend, Reggie Jackson, playing Town Ball, blasted a 400-yard hit into the great beyond.

the names of Satchel Paige and Josh Gibson can be added as a symbol of the great Negro Players that are not here only because they weren’t given a chance.” Ozzie Smith was the only inductee in 2002 and he took full advantage of the opportunity to give a very clever and well thought out presentation. He began by wearing a big Afro wig to lighten the mood by showing the crowd this is what he looked like at the beginning of his career. Next he removed the wig and had

his son Justin read from his plaque. Then he used props by having a copy of the Wizard of Oz in his right hand, appropriate since that was his nickname. In his left hand he had a baseball that was cut in half. He then used a thematic approach by metaphorically weaving the three main characters that Dorothy meets on the Yellow Brick Road with the inner levels of a baseball to tell his story. The details can be found in my book. He concluded with “My glove has given me much, but more importantly it has given me the ability to give back.” He has demonstrated that with his work for the Hall of Fame. He is now the educational ambassador and raises money for the Hall with his Turn Two Program. He also takes part in the Fantasy Camp every fall and comes back for the Hall of Fame Classic every year where he manages one of the teams. You can even hear his voice on the machine when you call the Hall. These are excerpts from two of the many outstanding induction speeches you will find in the book.

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Memorable moments Three oft-repeated stories round out my 10 favorite Induction moments: • Luis Aparicio, a native of Venezuela, was inducted in 1984. Jim Fanning, the director of player development for the Montreal Expos was watching a Winter League game at Pan Am Stadium in Caracas, Venezuela when Aparicio’s induction was announced. People cheered and eventually the 10,000 fans sang in unison the Venezuela National Anthem. • During Reggie Jackson’s 1993 induction he showed his flair for the dramatic on Saturday by interrupting his golf game and taking part in a Town Ball game at the Farmers Museum and hitting a 400 foot blast into the trees. • Bob Uecker is the funniest man in baseball, so when he received the Ford Frick Award in 2003, I took excerpts from his self-deprecating speech, including his opening line. This third string catcher had a lifetime batting average of .200, began with “What took you so long, I should have gone in as a player.”

here’s WHAT TO DO AND WHEN TO DO IT Friday, July 25

SATURDAY, July 26

Sunday, July 28

8 -11 a.m. “PLAY Ball” with Ozzie Smith, Johnny Bench and Mike Schmidt to benefit HOF educational programs. Plaque Gallery and On Field

4:30 p.m. Hall of Fame Awards Presentation to Roger Angell; Joe Garagiola and Eric Nadel. Doubleday Field 6 p.m. Hall of Fame Parade, Main Street

Induction Ceremony, Featuring Bobby Cox, Tom Glavine, Tony La Russa, Greg Maddux, Frank Thomas and Joe Torre, Clark Sports Center

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Just at the edge of the downtown Cooperstown village proper, you will find this very nice home amongst a 35-house colony. The house offers 3 bedrooms + master, 1¾ baths, formal LR with fireplace, formal DR, galley kitchen with skylights, family room, master suite with bath, walk-in closet and private deck. Lower floor with second family/entertainment room and storage, large 2-car attached garage and membership in the association owned lakefront parcel that offers swimming, boat dock and picnic area all within walking distance from the home. This colony of houses is a short walk from downtown Cooperstown. Offered Exclusively by Don Olin Realty at $360,000. Listing #V-112

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Monday, July 29 10:30 a.m.

“Legends of the Game” roundtable Featuring Bobby Cox, Tom Glavine, Tony La Russa, Greg Maddux, Frank Thomas and Joe Torre

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oubleday Field has its hands full with some very messy guests – but they aren’t just leaving soda cans and popcorn bags on the grandstand. “Some pigeons have made their nests under the roof of the grandstand,” said Mayor Jeff Katz. “And that causes a certain degree of mess.” Field manager Quinton Hasak has been in talks with Cornell’s Integrated Pest Management to get quotes – the first one was a scary $19,000 – and ideas of what it would take to evict the feathery fiends. But Doubleday Field remains committed to last year’s pledge not to use pesticides on the field, and are seeking alternative, non-lethal methods of eradicating the pests. “We’re steering away from pesticides of all natures,” said Hasak. One suggestion that has come up is to drape netting around the grandstand to prevent the pigeons from making their home in the roof. “If we can keep them out, they won’t make a mess,” said Hasak. “It’s for the protection of the grandstand viewers,” added Katz. “And the protection of the roof.”

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