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August 26, 2010

Our Opinion: Roses

Roses to 13-year-old Chelsea Baker, the Florida native who donated her baseball jersey to the Hall of Fame last week.

Baker, a pitcher and third baseman, learned the knuckleball from former Major League pitcher Joe Niekro, who coached her when she was younger.

Baker threw a pair of perfect games during Little League this season, and was in Cooperstown last week playing on an all-girls team at the Cooperstown Dreams Park. Baker won her only start during the week at the Dreams Park, and also hit a grand slam home run.

Hall of Fame President Jeff Idelson said Baker’s jersey was requested to continue the story of the important roles women are playing in baseball.

We applaud Baker for not only being a pioneer and role model for other girls wanting to play baseball, but also for continuing the legacy of the knuckleball. Joe Niekro, who died two years ago, and his brother Phil, a Hall of Famer, both learned the knuckleball from their father in the family backyard.

One of the Baseball Hall of Fame’s stated missions is Connecting Generations, and by teaching Chelsea the family pitch Joe Niekro has done just that.

Roses to Cooperstown senior David Bonderoff and Amy Hage Delli-Coli for successfully swimming the length of Otsego Lake on Sunday.

Bonderoff is a captain of the boys swim team at CCS, and finished the nine-mile swim in just over five hours. Emily Kerr of New Hamphsire also swam with Bonderoff and Delli-Coli, and did finish, but had to stop and board a boat for a while because of a shoulder injury.

Roses to Bassett Medical Center for joining forces with Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons (P & S) to create a new model of medical training for the future. The program is designed to address the severe shortage of rural physicians and train a new generation of doctors capable of leading health systems that promote both quality of practice and cost-effective delivery of care.

Hopefully the four-year program is a success. We wish the 10 students, which include Cooperstown native Allan Guiney, success and hope they enjoy their time in the village.

A total of 758 men and women applied for the program’s 10 slots - a ratio of applicants to positions that is more than double the ratio recorded last year at Columbia P & S. According to Bassett spokeswoman Karen Huxtable, applicants came from more than 200 colleges and the 10 students accepted have MCAT scores and grade point averages comparable to those of students at top medical schools in the country. In fact, she said, their GPAs and MCAT scores are higher than the mean of last year’s enrolled class at Columbia P & S.

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