COOPERSTOWN REDO NEARS END
Entrance Arch Rises
At Doubleday Field
COLUMN VIEW FROM THE GAME It’s All We Need To Know: Home Plate 17 Inches Wide Editor’s Note: Tim Mead, incoming Baseball Hall of Fame president, cited John Scolinos, baseball coach at his alma mater, Cal Poly Pomona, as a lifelong inspiration, particularly Scolinos’ famous speech “17 Inches.” Chris Sperry, who published sperrybaseballlife.com, heard Scolinos deliver a version in 1996 at the American Baseball Coaches Association in Nashville, and wrote this reminiscence in 1916 in his “Baseball Thoughts” column. By CHRIS SPERRY • from www.sperrybaseballlife.com In 1996, Coach Scolinos was 78 years old and five years retired from a college coaching…
Well if you’re going to live in a false reality it may as well look nice. When should the village just wrap a fence around itself and charge admission to get in – kind of like Disney but just ‘baseball town’? Maybe then the vacant stores could sell more stuff to visitors.