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CGP second-year students Ashley Bowden and Ryan Leichenauer review the material they are incorporating into a Bud Fowler exhibit that goes up Friday, April 19, at Doubleday Field.
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CGP students to discuss findings from a just-concluded research program into the Fowler story
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BUD FOWLER, COOPERSTOWNIAN AND BASEBALL PIONEER and the people working to win him too-long-delayed recognition:
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The Cooperstown Hawkeyes honor Bud Fowler for his tremendous contributions to the history of baseball! FOWLER/From A1 burial in an unmarked grave in a potter’s field in Frankfort’s Oak View Cemetery, Bud Fowler may be on the cusp of rediscovery: • The first full-length biography of Fowler, born in Fort Plain in 1858 and raised in Cooperstown, will be published by McFarland & Co. in June: “Bud Fowler: Baseball’s First Black Professional,” by Jeffrey Michael Laing. • SABR, the Society for American Baseball Research, has dealt with Fowler at some length on its website, www.sabr.org, and will hear a paper detailing his significance (by Village Historian Hugh MacDougall) at its 19th Century Conference at the Hall of Fame over the next few days. • The Village Board is commemorating the forgotten man who is arguably Cooperstown’s greatest hometown baseball hero
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at 4 p.m. Saturday, April 20, at an unveiling of a street sign, “Fowler Way,” on the lane leading from Chestnut Street to Doubleday Field. The village’s ceremony prompted the New York Times to publish a lengthy feature on Fowler in its Monday, April 15, edition. Bylined by Hillel Kuttler, it was available around the nation and world to The Times’ 700,000 print and 900,000 online subscribers. Has Bud Fowler arrived? “Wake up, Hollywood,” said Tom Heitz, the former Hall of Fame librarian who found early modern Fowler research in the late Hall historian Lee Allen’s files. “It’s a natural for a screenplay.” Said Mayor Jeff Katz, who developed the Fowler commemoration (he credits Hall senior curator Tom Shieber with the idea), “This has got to elevate his profile with
people beyond the SABR set. Where it leads, I don’t know.” He’s heard National Public Radio may be sending a team from Boston to Saturday’s street-sign ceremony and – after The Times story, in particular – other national outlets may do so as well. “Regardless of how it ends up,” said Katz, “more people will know about Bud Fowler on Sunday than they have before.” That “’42” was released at this very moment, raising interest in black ballplayers generally, is “a happy fluke,” the mayor said. To Peter Mancuso of Philadelphia, who chairs SABR’s 19th Century Committee, any recognition Bud Fowler may receive is overdue. “For baseball historians,” he said, “Fowler IS a major figure in baseball history. We understand a lot about the era, in terms of the segregation and Jim
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Crow-ism. We also know a lot about these outstanding players who played in that era.” If Jackie, why not Bud? “Time has obscured him,” said Mancuso, “and that’s the simplicity of it.” Still, July 14, 1887, is “a day in baseball history that means the world to me,” he continued. That day, owners of International League Teams – Binghamton, Syracuse, Rochester, Buffalo and elsewhere – “officially drew the color line.” Activities like Bud Fowler Day in Cooperstown and Laing’s full biography are just what’s needed to give Fowler the credit he deserves, Mancuso said. For his part, Laing, in an interview from his home in Santa Fe, N.M., believes Bud Fowler’s was a story just waiting to be discovered. But before the Internet gave researchers access to articles in the
black press from a century ago, “no one connected the dots.” The biographer admires his subject’s ambition, energy and adaptability, likening him to Horatio Alger, the archetypical all-American story: Only the color of his skin kept Fowler from the American Dream. The idea of a movie is a natural one, said Laing. He told of one evening, halfway through his research, sipping wine with friends – one had directed movies – and regaling them with Bud Fowler stories. After about an hour, the director said, “This would make a fabulous movie. I even have the opening shot.” She went to describe a scene: Shadow baseball, where people throw and bat and react, “and there’s no baseball.” Bud Fowler, captured in a dream. “That’s how I would open it.”
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f you don’t know where you’re going, any road will do,” Henry Luke, a proponent of community visioning when the concept was popular in the 1990s EDITORIAL – he visited Otsego County in 2009 – used to enjoy saying. In a conversation during SUNY Oneonta President Nancy Kleniewski’s Monday, April 15, reception launching “Possibilities Full of Promise,” the college’s $12.5 million fund drive to mark its 125th anniversary, Paul Adamo, vice president for college advancement, made a similar point. The fund drive is aimed at bolstering four priorities: • Teaching, learning and research, to expand “experiential learning” for students and underwrite the faculty’s professional development. • Scholarships, keeping a SUNY Oneonta education as a great value. • Global connectedness, to plug in students in our small Upstate county to the big pond they must swim in to succeed. • The Fund for Oneonta and Unrestricted Endowment, to give the local campus flexibility within the 64-campus SUNY system. (Adamo is also executive di-
The Freeman’s Journal At the Monday, April 15, launch, a brochure was distributed detailing the goals of “Possibilities Full of Promise,” SUNY Oneonta’s $12.5 million fund drive associated with its 125th anniversary.
rector of the Oneonta Foundation, which has developed a $40 million endowment, the largest in the system.) Adamo’s point was that these priorities aren’t pulled out of a hat. They grew out of a four-year strategic planning process Kleniewski launched on arriving in Oneonta in 2008. Administrators, faculty, students and community friends of the campus helped draw the roadmap. Without such a systematically prepared plan – and this is Adamo’s key point – a fund drive “can become someone’s wish list.” “Possibilities Full of Promise” is no one’s wish
list. It seeks to make possible the campus community’s aspirations – and the campus community is a subset of the greater Otsego County community, which was tapped in creating the planning document. That’s why everyone of us – not just the hundreds of SUNY Oneonta grads and employees among us – should contribute to achieving the $1.25 million goal. • It’s likely no living person has had as long and close an association with SUNY Oneonta as David W. Brenner, who arrived on campus as an undergrad in
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41st among “Regional Universities – North,” so there’s quality here, too. Which brings us to Brenner’s second observation: In 1987-88, then-new President Alan Donovan determined to buck SUNY headquarters’ quantitative enrollment targets for a couple of years, to ensure that only students who had achieved qualitative targets would be admitted. Since students in seats means revenue, it was a gutsy decision; Brenner calls it the “demarcation.” Kleniewski, a scholar/ administrator, not just a bean-counter, has continued that quality focus – kaizen, if you will, to adopt and Japanese term – and it’s continuing to pay off. U.S.
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News’ 41st ranking was the third-highest among SUNY colleges, after Geneseo and New Paltz. Quality pays off in many practical ways, some surprising. For instance, a landlord who rents to undergrads remarked the other day that, as the quality of SUNY Oneonta students has risen, he’s found less damage to his apartments. SUNY Oneonta, of course, is not just a benefit to the City of the Hills. Its regional economic impact – through jobs, student spending and institutional spending – is huge. The superb Cooperstown Graduate School in Museum Studies and innovative Biological Field Station on Otsego Lake – last year, it began offering the nation’s first master’s in lake management – underscore the beneficial countywide reach. Amid all the bad economic news, SUNY Oneonta is great economic news. There are few investments these days that are guaranteed, but investing in “Possibilities Full of Promise” is one of them. All of us benefit from SUNY Oneonta’s growing success. Let’s donate to ensure its continued growth and achievement.
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wo prominent alumni are leading SUNY Oneonta’s “Possibilities Full of Promise” campaign: • Jeff Strauss,’71, is president of the College Foundation board, and active in New York City alumni events, notably Backpacks to BriefJim Kevlin/The Freeman’s Journal cases. He retired from Goldman Sachs in 2006 Yvonne Cummings and Jeff Strauss are co-chairing the after 23 years, and is “Possibilities Full of Prompresident of Butterfield ise” fund drive. Fulcrum, a hedge fund. tor, revenue management, He is married and lives New York City Health & in Franklin Lakes, N.J. • Yvonne Cummings,’72, Hospitals Corp., and previously was associate dean, has served on the FoundaNew York Medical College, tion board since 2005, and Valhalla. She is single and is currently secretary. She was 2009 Outstanding EOP lives in Brooklyn. alumna. She is senior direcR
1952, retired as an associate vice president in 1993, and continues to serve on the College Council. (In his spare time, he was an effective city mayor and chairman of the county Board of Representatives.) In a two-hour interview the other day, reflecting on the college’s history, two observations in particular shone through. One, that Kiplinger’s Magazine this year ranked SUNY Oneonta as third on the list of “10 Public College with the Lowest Debt for Graduating Students.” Those of us who lived through the bursting of the Internet bubble in 2000 and the housing bubble in 2008 can see the higher-education bubble looming. When it bursts, affordability will become ever more important in attracting top students. Kiplinger’s ranking means SUNY Oneonta – its in-state tuition is an astonishingly low $6,896 this year – is well-positioned to benefit when the crash arrives – top students will seek us out – and the $12.5 million “Possibilities” drive will only make it more so. • Separate from the Kiplinger’s assessment, U.S. News & World report ranked the local campus
his week SUNY Oneonta launched the public phase of “Possibilities Full of Promise: The 125th Anniversary Campaign for SUNY Oneonta” with the goal of raising $12.5 million in new funds over a fouryear period. This initiative certainly is a commitment to bold aspirations. However, it also is a reflection on our history, which is as rich as the Oneonta community, itself. The name of our campaign, “Possibilities Full of Promise,” recalls the words of James Milne, first principal of the Oneonta Normal School, the institution that, with the founding of the State University of New York in 1948, became SUNY Oneonta. Milne, at the school’s dedication in 1889, remarked: “I see possibilities full of promise. Today we dedicate. Tomorrow we change possibility into reality.” Although the college we know hardly resembles the one he founded, Milne’s vision endures. He would be proud that SUNY Oneonta has become one of the Northeast’s premier public colleges. Our first principal would find his commitment to students’ passions and potential has persisted since that autumn afternoon nearly 124 years ago when he proclaimed it. In the spirit of fulfilling Milne’s inaugural pledge,
conferences that deepen their knowledge of their discipline. Perhaps the most compelling argument I can make for supporting teaching, learning and research is our upcoming Student Research & Creative Activity Day. We host this event each spring to showcase the vitality of the research community within our campus. This year, its timing coincides with the unveiling of our campaign. I invite anyone who would like to witness the Jim Kevlin/The Freeman’s Journal impact of teaching, learning Against a backdrop of historic images, SUNY and research to attend StuOneonta President Nancy Kleniewski announces dent Research & Creativity the $12.5 million “Possibilities Full of Promise” Day next Tuesday, April 23. fund drive Monday, April 15, at a reception in the Held at the college’s Hunt Hunt Union. Union Ballroom, it will “Possibilities Full of Promthis hits home. Considerfeature over 100 displays ise” supports four critical ing that one in 10 SUNY representing the best in areas, the first of which is Oneonta students comes undergraduate research from scholarships. Since the mid- from Otsego, Delaware, the 2012-2013 academic 1980s the national average Schoharie or Chenango year. cost of attending a public, County, additional funding Next among our four four-year college has risen for scholarships will give campaign priorities is global at a pace that is twice the a boost to many families connectedness. The stronrate of inflation. Should this whose children attend local gest case for global connecttrend continue, it means that high schools. edness comes from a biolthe cost of attendance for Our second campaign fo- ogy student named James a child born today will be cus is teaching, learning and Dewey, who travelled to more than three times what research. One of the reasons the Peruvian rainforest last it is now. that SUNY Oneonta attracts year as part of a three-week Increasingly, scholarships such high caliber students field course investigating put higher education within is that we encourage underdozens of different species reach of young people who graduate research in a way of beetles, frogs and other otherwise would be faced that sets our campus apart animals. with a choice between from others. Members of Said Dewey, “From our taking on debt or delayour faculty sponsor studies studies we definitely had ing college indefinitely. In and projects across virtually an idea of the diversity, but the Catskill region, where every academic program. until you’re actually there, economic uncertainty is a Students’ work often leads you just can’t describe it. reality for many families, to invitations to professional Please See PRESIDENT, A6
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A deposed witness testifies to the aftermath of the battle of Riviere aux Raisins as follows: “I certify, that the bodies of the Americans, killed at the battle of Riviere aux Raisins, of the 22nd January last, and the day after remain unburied, and that I have seen hogs and dogs eating them. The hogs appear to be rendered mad by so profuse a diet of Christian flesh. I saw the houses of Mr. Geraume and Mr. Godfrey on fire and have heard there were prisoners in them. The inhabitants did not dare to bury them, on account of the Indians. The inhabitants have been threatened by the Indians, if they did not take up arms against the Americans.” April 17, 1813
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Mrs. B. Richter takes the liberty to inform the ladies of Cooperstown and its vicinity that she is willing to give instruction in all kinds of fancy and ornamental needlework, French embroidery, in Silk and Worsted; and in hair for rings, chains, &c. As she has the patterns of the latest fashions, and some of the best zephyr Worsted, she would with pleasure execute pieces of fancy needle work for families, if any should desire it. For particulars, please apply at her residence. April 16, 1838
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The War News – Bread riots have occurred in several of the leading Southern cities. A refugee who left Richmond last Tuesday, and has just reached Washington, says that the bread riot at the rebel capital caused the greatest consternation among the authorities. The women were the heads of the families of the working classes, and were actually starving, many having been compelled to beg on the street. A repetition of the demonstration is feared, and every precaution is being taken to avert it. The effect upon the troops was most demoralizing, the men having become very clamorous, and demanding that their families should be fed. If to this state of things could be added news of the defeat of the rebel armies at important points, the leaders would soon find themselves surrounded by embarrassments and troubles beyond their control. April 17, 1863
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Personal – On Tuesday last a few of the personal friends of Miss Susan Fenimore Cooper called to tender their congratulations on her attaining her 75th birthday in comfortable health.
Mr. Charles R. Burch was a few days since called to New Berlin, to the deathbed of his beloved mother, and she passed away on Tuesday last. Mr. Perkins, the artist, has removed his studio to a pleasant room on the third story of the Bunyan block. He has several fine paintings on exhibition. April 20, 1888
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them according to Principal Ralph W. Perry. Patients confined to the Municipal Hospital for infectious diseases at Washington are Miss Marion Moakler, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Edward Moakler of Middlefield Center; Miss Clara O. Parshall, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Harry L. Parshall of Whig Corners, and Robert Welch, son of Mr. and Mrs. Lee Welch of Fly Creek. April 20, 1936
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The “Peters Polish” at Hartwick was discovered in the year 1834 by Mr. Rufus Peters. He died in 1841. One morning, after eating an apple down by the brick yard, he rubbed his knife into the clay and noticed what a beautiful luster it received. He had the polish put up in small packages and sold about the country, and also sold it by the barrel in Meridien, Connecticut, and the Rogers’ Britannia Co. still buy their polish from Hartwick. The baseball enthusiasts of the village churches have been busy during the last week organizing their teams for the Sunset League which will furnish ball to suit the tastes of the most critical fan during the summer months. If the grounds are dried sufficiently, practice will probably begin next week. The managers and captains of the teams are: Baptist – W.M. Bronner, manager; Clifford Derrick, captain. Methodist – C.B. Johnson, manager; H.E. Lewis, captain. Universalist – E.D. Lindsay, manager; James Whipple, captain. Presbyterian – Robert Wood, manager; Bowne Davidson, captain. April 16, 1913
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The Cooperstown Union and High School is scheduled to re-open Thursday morning of this week following the Spring vacation, which was extended two days when it was discovered that three members of the senior class, while on their class trip to Washington, D.C., were ill with scarlet fever in a hospital in that city. Since the return of the other members of the party no new cases have developed among
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Rolling a 300-point score in bowling is the equivalent to pitching a no-hitter in baseball, hitting a hole-in-one in golf, or completing a Hail Mary pass in football. While competing in the Wednesday Night Bowling League on April 9 at the Clark Sports Center, assistant athletic director and bowling alley manager Barry Gray rolled the third 300-point game of his career. “I’m just a small town type of guy who goes there and does what he does,” Gray said. “I’m never looking for the spotlight. That’s not my style.” April 18, 2003
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An open letter from Brian Fawcett Spring, hopefully, is finally here and we can all bid winter farewell. Numerous changes are taking place at 248 River Street in Oneonta. Our name is now “The New Asbury Gardens” and I am once again the owner. I would like to offer an apology to anyone who may have had an unpleasant experience with the interim owner during the past year. We will make every effort to give you the friendly customer satisfaction and quality professional workmanship we have given for the last 32 years. Please visit us at the Garden Center and if you would like to meet with me to discuss your upcoming or ongoing landscape needs. Please call anytime and leave a message at 607-432-8703. We’ll return your call as quickly as possible. Thank you for your support throughout the years and we hope to see you soon.
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external causes such as state funding or the emergence of entirely new frameworks for learning such as MOOCs (massively open online courses), new challenges arise and we must rise to meet them. Unrestricted gifts help make this possible by allowing the college the flexibility of thinking and acting creatively to fulfill our goal of offering a premier education. Through philanthropy we honor our past and ensure SUNY Oneonta’s unique place in this community, now and for years to come. Like Milne before me, I meet possibilities full of promise with great enthusiasm, and I know that our campus remains dedicated to changing possibility into reality. to changing possibility into reality.
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Decent Housing For Everyone? Heavens, No! To the Editor: During the course of my apartment hunt, I was recently shown an apartment with a hole in the ceiling large enough to fit a dining room table into. The owners of the building treated the fact that the tenants of the apartment upstairs may at any moment become roommates with a blasĂŠ indifference that needs to be seen to be properly admired. They assured me that the obvious massive structural damage was no problem and could be patched up and ready for me to move into by tomorrow. The truly astonishing thing about this story is not merely that it is perfectly factual and presented without the slightest exaggeration, but that the landlords in question were actually willing to rent to non-student tenants. A person like myself, who has been searching for less than a year, might actually stand a chance of finding a place to live here. This sort of thing must be stopped! Oneonta, as you may know, is in the midst of a severe housing crisis. Of all the apartments here, a mere 97 percent of them are made
exclusively available for student rental. Clearly this is not sufficient. All local rental units must be converted to student-only housing without delay! Unfortunately the landlords of this town are forced to contend with a persistent population of non-student renters, who, with their unreasonable demands, are far from ideal tenants. These are the sort of tenant who will actually have the audacity ask for their security deposit back, request to be allowed to keep pets and – worst of all – demand to live in the kind of conditions where the SPCA will allow animals to live. Our poor landlords are virtually powerless against this outrage. The rules governing rental housing in our beloved town are so hard on landlords that they may occasionally consider obey-
ing them! Some are left no choice but to rent to socalled “Young Professionals� (which we all recognize as a euphemism for things like: “Adjunct Professor� or “New Family�). It is essential that Common Council do everything that it can to eliminate the subtle menace of these adult renters from gaining a toehold in our beloved town. If we allow such undesirable persons to find a place to live here, they may eventually buy houses, start businesses in our precious vacant storefronts and disrupt the cherished status quo with completely unwelcome prosperity. I urge you, Citizens of Oneonta, to do everything in your power to prevent this dangerous element from making their homes here. Keep our rents high and standards of living low! Make sure our younger
population stays transient and do your part to prevent terrifying change from taking root. We must do everything in our power to prevent any potential of a population increase. Only by taking definitive action against this menace today can we keep things exactly the way they are! JOHN RYAN Oneonta
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Maggee Hobbie, Fly Creek, at left in left photo, and Dr. Donald Raddatz and his daughter Melissa, were in Boston for the marathon. Their smiles earlier in the day belie the tragedy they would witness later on Monday, April 15.
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appointment at Brigham & Women’s Hospital. As she was driving, her phone began buzzing with text messages and calls asking if she was all right. “I told them, ‘Of course I’m all right. What’s going on’?” She turned on the news and was horrified. “I’m pretty shaken up,” she said. “Boston always seemed like such a safe place.” She got to the hospital, where the wounded filled the waiting rooms. “She told me there were just bodies everywhere,” said her mother, Connie. “I got in just under the wire,” said Maggee. “The hospital was on lockdown. I was there from 4 to 7 p.m. There were SWAT teams everywhere; when I left, they had somebody walk me to the parking lot so I wasn’t alone.” The family was panicked as they saw the carnage unfold on the news, and with cell-phone service down to prevent remote detonations of other incendiary devices, it wasn’t until a nurse gave her a phone that Hobbie could call home and let her worried family know she was all right. “It was a hard few hours until we knew she was OK,” said her mom. Melissa, a CCS graduate, had completed her fourth Boston Marathon, coming in 180 in the women’s race, and was recovering in a restaurant a few blocks away when she started getting text messages and phone calls telling her that there had been an explosion. “I didn’t
hear anything,” she said. “But I still had friends on the course and they’d been pulled off.” The building she was in went on lockdown for two hours, and later that evening, Melissa was able to get a ride back home to New York, where she’s worked as a family nurse practitioner for the last nine years. “It’s so sad,” she said. “The explosions happened when most of the runners were crossing, like the people who were running for charities.” Before the race, there was a moment of silence to honor the victims of the Sandy Hook shootings. “27,000 runners, ready to race, all silent,” she said. “It set a tone for this race to be about something, and it’s upsetting that something would happen at an event so joyous, so celebrated.” That morning, Melissa had texted her mother a photo of her and her dad, the Bassett physician, standing at the starting line. “When I heard about the bombing, I was just…” said Cathy, unable to finish her sentence as she held up the photo on her phone. “It’s kind of unreal,” said Connie. Though it’s still too early to tell if the marathon will be held next year, Raddatz knows that this will not stop her from running, and will be training for another marathon scheduled in the fall. “It’s heartbreaking,” she said. “But we’ll carry on.”
Few Artifacts Available To CGP Research Team For Bud Fowler Project CGP/From A1 tion of his death. “From a museum point of view, you have to tell a narrative, but so many African-Americans don’t have that material culture,” said Bowden, who hails from Los Angeles. “We don’t have his jersey, we don’t have his glove. We only have two main images to tell us about his life,” she said. The two-panel exhibit will go up on Friday, April 19, during the Society For American Baseball Research’s (SABR) 19th Century Baseball Conference at the Hall of Fame. Saturday the 20th, the village trustees will rename the lane leading to Doubleday Field “Fowler Way,” then will reconvene at the exhibit site, where MLB Official Historian John Throne will deliver an address. “It’s nice to see the village honor these unsung heroes,” said DeMarco. Leichenauer added, “We wanted to create a dynamic exhibit for the season. And we wanted to do something for Cooperstown.” Fowler, born John Jackson in Fort Plain on March 16, 1858, was raised in Cooperstown, the son of a barber. He was the first black baseball player in organized minor baseball leagues and played the longest, 10 seasons over 20 teams and 13 leagues, including managing the Page Fence Giants. “He played all over the country,” said Leichenauer. Sixty-eight years before Branch Rickey signed Jackie Robinson, Fowler was playing on baseball diamonds “from Texas to Maine,” said Leichenauer. Fowler died Feb. 26, 1913, at age 54, and was buried in an unmarked grave in Frankfort’s Oak
View Cemetery until SABR erected a marker there in 1987. Research establishing Jackson/Fowler’s Cooperstown link was done by former HoF librarian Tom Heitz and Village Historian Hugh MacDougall, and the CGP students were tasked with distilling that information into a visual exhibit as part of their graduate work. “We got to learn about a legacy,” said Leichenauer. “After looking over the research, we decided that our themes were ‘Talent, Passion and Odds’,” said Bowden. The most difficult part, she continued, was putting together a visual presentation with very little visual material. “The hardest part of the design was finding images to tell a story even without (individual) photos of Bud Fowler,” said DeMarco. The trio used a map, old images of his teams and a timeline to give the information a visual component. “The timeline helps people understand the key points in history,” DeMarco said. “Not just in baseball history, but what was going on in the world at the time.” Leichanauer and Bowden were in charge of writing the script for the exhibit, while DeMarco, with help from CGP Director Gretchen Sorin, designed the visuals of the kiosk. “We wanted to go with traditional baseball colors, but we wanted to give it a vintage, antique feel, so we went with a muted red, white and blue,” DeMarco explained. The three will talk about how they put the exhibit together at 10 a.m. Sunday in the Hall’s Grandstand Theater. “We didn’t just talk about making an exhibit,” said Bowden. “We did it.”
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RICHFIELD SPRINGS – David Edward Stocking, 81, an Air Force staff sergeant known as “Bucky,” died Thursday, April 11, 2013, at Fox Hospital. He was born on June 10, 1931, in Springfield Center, son of the late William and Dorthea I. On Dec. 25, 1951, he was united in marriage with the former Virginia Tero in Saint Mary’s Episcopal Church, Springfield Center. Surviving are his wife
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