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Bob Hall Wins Fetterman Award,

Joining Sports Center Pantheon

Bob Allen is this year's Fetterman Award winner
Bob Hall is this year’s Fetterman Award winner

By LIBBY CUDMORE • for AllOTSEGO.com

COOPERSTOWN – For Bob Hall, while growing up in Springfield, a trip to the Clark Sports Center was about as good as a day could get.  “On Saturdays, my friends and I would get a parent to bring a carload of us down to the Clark Sports Center – it was next to the Baseball Hall of Fame back then – and we’d play all day.”

Hall, a longtime youth coach and referee, is this year’s Fetterman Award Winner at the Clark Sports Center, given annually in memory of Patrick C. Fetterman, a long-time Associate Director of the Alfred Corning Clark Gymnasium at the center.

Hall grew up playing football, basketball, soccer and baseball.  “When you’re in a small town, sports are always a good thing to do,” he said.  “I still play basketball at the Clark – something to do on those cold winter nights!”…

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