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Discord at the Dreams Park
Staff Report
HARTWICK SEMINARY —
The campers at the
Cooperstown Dreams Park
are playing baseball, but the
Presutti family is playing
Family Feud.
A brief article last week
by Laura Italiano in the New
York Post says that Joseph
``Uncle Joe’’ Presutti has filed
suit against his brother Lou
``Coach’’ Presutti and Coach’s
son Louis Presutti, the
Dreams Park CEO. The suit
was filed Aug. 4 in Manhattan
Supreme Court.
According to the article,
Uncle Joe spent years working
to turn the park into one
of the country’s premier
youth-baseball tournament
facilities where more than
1,000 teams come to play
each summer.
In the suit, Uncle Joe
claims he has been kicked
out of the project — and left
penniless — by his two partners.
The Post article states
that Joseph Presutti is seeking
unspecified damages,
claiming his brother and
nephew forced him out of the
organization and badmouthed
him as an unstable
drunk to staff and relatives.
The feud apparently started
after Joe asked his brother
and nephew to abide by a
long-standing agreement
that he is entitled to a 5 percent
interest in the park’s
worth.
The park, the article
states, operates one of the
largest youth-baseball tournaments
in the world and
generates more than $12
million annually.
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