IN MEMORIAM: Alvin Hall, 75; Dean, Founder Of Cooperstown Symposium ONEONTA – Alvin Hall, 75, who while a SUNY Oneonta dean helped establish the Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and American Culture in collaboration with the Baseball Hall of Fame, died in his sleep Thursday, Dec. 3, 2015, at home at the Plains at Parish Homestead after a lengthy illness with congestive heart and kidney failure. He was born in Atlanta, Ga., on Oct. 3, 1940, to Icealius and Mary Frances Hall…