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Two of the roughly 400 baseball fans who waited on line Saturday display their tickets to the final Hall of Fame Game to be held June 16 at Doubleday Field. Photo by Cheryl Clough.
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Tickets for the final Fame Game sold out
Staff Report
All tickets for the final
2008 Hall of Fame Game,
featuring the Chicago Cubs
and San Diego Padres on
June 16 at Doubleday Field,
were sold Saturday, as the
game was declared a sellout
at 2 p.m., just four hours after
tickets were first made
available. Any returned tickets
will be made available at
9 a.m. on Hall of Fame Game
Day, June 16, in the Doubleday
Field parking lot.
Approximately 400 visitors
braved the cold and rain
in Cooperstown to purchase
about 2,500 tickets available
in the one-day walk-up sale
at the Museum. Patrons
were permitted to lineup
starting at 6 a.m. Saturday
and wristbands guaranteeing
a purchase opportunity
were handed out to those
who joined the line by approximately
9 a.m.
áMuseum Members purchased
the remaining tickets
available for the Hall of
Fame Game through a phone
sale, which began at 10 a.m.
With a seating capacity of
9,571, Doubleday Field has
hosted the Hall of Fame
Game annually since 1940,
the only in-season exhibition
game for many years. Major
League Baseball announced
in January that the 2008
Hall of Fame Game will be
the last in which major
league teams will be sent as
participants.
Cooperstown graduate
Kristian Connolly and some
volunteers were at the ticket
sales Saturday trying to
drum up support for savethefamegame.
com, a website
Connolly started after the
announcement was made by
major league baseball.
In an email to the Crier,
Connolly said he and other
volunteers talked to all people
on line, went to area businesses,
and put up signage
in the village.
“All in all, it was a great
day for savethefamegame.
com,’’ he wrote. ``We were
able to hand out information
to over 500 people and we
were greeted warmly and enthusiastically
by everyone in
line. It was great to be able
to reach so many people in
person and hear their stories,
where they come from,
why they love the HOF
Game, why they want it to
continue, etc., and I look forward
to more of the same inperson
support-building opportunities
in the coming
months.’’
Earlier this week, Senator
James L. Seward said he
would form a panel charged
with developing an alternative
to the annual Major
League Baseball-sponsored
Hall of Fame game.
Seward had earlier joined
the fight to save the game,
but said he heard directly
from MLB commissioner Bud
Selig that the plan to cancel
the game is irrevocable.
``We’ve got to start planning
how we can turn around
a tough break and make sure
we have a significant annual
baseball event that continues
to be a tourist destination,
builds on our baseball
history, and is an economic
asset for our area,’’ Seward
said.
Seward said he plans to
form a local committee that
would include the Hall of
Fame, the mayor of Cooperstown,
the chairman of the
county board, and local tourism/
business representatives
to develop an alternate plan
to fill the Hall of Fame game
niche.
On Monday, June 16,
fans are invited to line Main
Street for the Cooperstown
Game Day Parade, beginning
at noon, presented by
the Hall of Fame, the Cooperstown
Chamber of Commerce
and the village of Cooperstown.
Both teams will
ride trolleys down Main
Street and into Doubleday
Field to conclude the parade.
At 1 p.m., the fan-favorite
Home Run Derby will feature
three contestants from
each major league team,
slugging for beyond the fences.
Following the game, children
12 and under are invited
to run the bases at
Doubleday Field.
A full weekend of programming
for Father’s Day
Weekend, including a special
appearance by Hall of Famer
Ferguson Jenkins, will take
place June 14-16 in Cooperstown.
For a full schedule,
please visit www.baseballhall.
org.
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Pair complete lake swim
EMILY KERR, LEFT, David Bonderoff and Amy Hage Delli-Coli were all smiles after their lake swim on Saturday.
David Bonderoff, 17, of Cooperstown and Amy Hage Delli-Coli, 41, of Exeter, N.H swam the entire length of Otsego Lake last Saturday. They began their 9.2-mile swim at Springfield Landing at 7 a.m. on the north end of the lake, along with their friend, Emily Kerr, of Exeter, New Hampshire.
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Patriots have shot at another stellar season
The Cherry Valley-Springfield boys soccer team had a dream season last fall, coasting through the regular season undefeated and capturing its third straight Tri-Valley Championship title with a 3-0 victory over Morris.
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Former CCS star to play for Hartwick
Former Cooperstown girls basketball and Herkimer County Community College star Samantha Fox is taking her hardwood talents to Hartwick College next season.
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Deer suggestions made
A citizen task force for the 4F Wildlife Management Unit, which includes most of Otsego County, has recommended the DEC set a no net change in the estimated deer population.
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Hawkeyes players honored
Two Cooperstown Hawkeyes players earned Second Team All-League honors from the New York Collegiate Baseball league on Monday.
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Girl is in a league of her own
Some may argue that girls do not belong on the ballfield playing among boys, but a 13-year-old Little League girl from Plant City Fla., has proven she can hold her own.
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Perez to represent the East for National Title
Last spring, Elias (E.J.) Perez was the recipient of Cooperstown Youth Football’s inaugural Youth Football Camp Scholarship award, and recently attended the Offense/Defense football camp held in Rochester.
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Benefit golf tournament is Aug. 29
Prizes, good food and fun will be ``par for the course’’ at a benefit Golf Tournament on Sunday, Aug. 29, at the Otsego Golf Course. The Tournament is organized by the newly created Cooperstown Rotary Foundation (CRF), a nonprofit, tax deductible organization.
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Edmonds named athlete of the year
Cooperstown’s Caleb Edmonds did more than enough to earn Daily Star Athlete of the Year honors in track.
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Petroskey homers, but Hawkeyes eliminated
Cooperstown Hawkeyes owner Tom Hickey said on Monday the team’s inaugural season was a success on every level except for one.
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C’town Legion finishes season 11-8
The Cooperstown American Legion baseball team completewhat head coach Ed Dubben called a successful season by defeating Herkimer, 5-2, last Thursday at Doubleday Field.
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Dawson has harsh words for steroid users
Andre Dawson entered the Hall of Fame wearing a Montreal Expos cap on Sunday, but it was clear his heart was still in Chicago.
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Hall voting process restructured
Thanks to a restructuring in the way the National Baseball Hall of Fame selects veterans for enshrinement, the late George Steinbrenner might have a plaque in the Cooperstown shrine next summer.
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C’town girls lose first
The Clark Sports Center hosted four games in the girls summer basketball league last Wednesday.
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Hawkeyes will host playoff game
This much is sure: The Cooperstown Hawkeyes will host a playoff game at 5 p.m. on Saturday at Doubleday Field. Who their opponent will be though, is still very much up in the air. Cooperstown clinched a playoff berth with a 4-1 victory over Albany Tuesday evening at Doubleday Field and played two games on Wednesday. They are currently 21-19, a halfgame ahead of fourth place Glens Falls. They played Glens Falls at 1 p.m. on Wednesday and with a win would lock up third place and a likely first round match-up with the Oneonta Outlaws beginning Friday night.
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The Outlaws ended their regular season on Tuesday with an 8-5 win at Albany. - Thursday, July 22, 2010
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'Hawk,' 'Whitey,' 'God' to enter Hall
When former Cubs’ second baseman Ryne Sandberg was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 2005, he took time during his speech to single out former teammate Andre Dawson, who was in attendance that day.
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Tennis tournament 'a success'
The third annual Chris Gentile Memorial Tennis Tournament was held last weekend at the Clark Sports Center.
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Ozzie to host Play Ball on Friday
He blazed a trail across the baseball world for parts of three decades, forever changing the game with fielding accomplishments never before seen.
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Hawkeyes in playoff hunt as season winds down
If the New York Collegiate Baseball League playoffs were to begin today, the Cooperstown Hawkeyes and Oneonta Outlaws would meet in a first round series. The top four teams in each division qualify for postseason play, and currently Oneonta is in second place and Cooperstown in third with one week left in the regular season.
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Cooperstown All Stars fall in final
The Cooperstown Major League All Star team advanced to the finals of the week-long Oneonta tournament, but fell to the hosts, 15- 8, in the championship game on Sunday.
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