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AP: White Sox Owner Hospitalized At Bassett COOPERSTOWN – The Chicago White Sox say owner Jerry Reinsdorf, in Cooperstown for the Hall of Fame’s 75th Induction, has been hospitalized after feeling lightheaded, Associated Press is reporting today. The team says all tests Friday night indicate he is fine. The 78-year-old Reinsdorf, also chairman of the NBA’s Chicago Bulls, is coherent and resting comfortably, according to the club. In a statement released Friday night, the White Sox say Reinsdorf is communicating…
Retired Players Can Stay Induction-Eligible For Only 10 Years, Hall’s Directors Decide COOPERSTOWN – The Baseball Hall of Fame board of directors today announced players will only be eligible to stay on the ballot for 10 years after retiring, instead of 15, effective immediately. The only players now on the list who would be affected have been grandfathered: Don Mattingly, Alan Trammell and Lee Smith. Here is the Hall’s full press release:…
66 MLB Stars Sign Autographs, Bringing Crowds To Main Street SEE PHOTO GALLERY OF MLB STARS SIGNING AUTOGRAPHS DOWNTOWN TODAY…
Complete Schedule Of Autograph Signers In This Week’s Newspapers …
Crowds Arriving For 75th Induction…
IN MEMORIAM: Joan O. Tripp, 83, Retired Village Librarian COOPERSTOWN – Joan O. Tripp, 83, retired librarian at the Village Library of Cooperstown, passed away on Wednesday afternoon, July 23, 2014.…
OPERA REVIEWS: All 4 Productions Rolled Out At Glimmerglass Festival Cast of International Excellence In ‘Ariadne’ By ROBERT MOYNIHAN • allotsego.com Richard Strauss’s “Ariadne auf Naxos,” auf Upstate German humor? Supposedly, it doesn’t exist outside Klink’s Stalag on aging TV. An oddity of reputation is that Germany, after two murderous conflagrations, may even now be wrongly cast. Arecent book claims that most “higher things” in the U.S. came from France. Not so. Most of our higher musical culture came from…
American Tragedy, Operatic Triumph? By ROBERT MOYNIHAN • allotsego.com Too many superlatives exist in this Glimmerglass production for reservations – yet a few exist. On the positive side, the staging is brilliant – with multiple levels originally seen in Arthur Miller’s “Death of a Salesman.” However, this staging far surpasses them. The horrible drowning – either by murder or accident – achieves a paradox of representative horror held within emotional bounds. So does the final electrocution, awful, but contained within…