What A Crowd! Induction Of Mariano Rivera, 5 Others Brings 55,000 Here By JENNIFER HILL & JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – Induction 2019 was notable for what didn’t happen as much as did. One, the folks who didn’t collapse from the heat. A violent storm late Saturday broke the humidity that created a steamy high of 88, making way for much drier Induction Day Sunday, July 21, with highs in the low 80s and a slight breeze keeping…
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Mayor’s Eyeball Survey Found Parking Aplenty In 20 Tours Of Dietz Lot, He Never Found Fewer Than 80 Vacant Spaces By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – When Mayor Gary Herzig says there’s plenty of space in the Dietz Street parking lot to accommodate the three-story Lofts On Dietz and its 66 artist studios and apartments, he knows what he’s talking about. “I’ve walked the lot, starting in April, probably 20 times,” he said a couple of days…
HALL OF FAME INDUCTION 2019 Crowds Growing On Main Street P.J. Carter, left, son of famed Expo and Met Gary Carter, gives his dad’s best wishes to Tommy Lasorda, famed two-decade manager of the L.A. Dodgers, who is signing autographs today on Main Street, Cooperstown. Behind Lasorda is another great, Lou Pinella, who finished up his 16-year playing career as a Yankee. Crowds are bigger than usual for a first day of Induction Weekend, said Vinnie Russo, proprietor of Mickey’s…
IN MEMORIAM: Allan L. Fraser, 55; Father Of 2 Fought Cancer 20 Years MOUNT VISION – Allan L. Fraser, 55, who fought cancer since 1999, passed away Saturday, July 13, 2019, with his family by his side in the home that he built. Allan was born on Feb. 2, 1964 and was a son of the late Winnard and Rose (Marano) Fraser. On Sept. 28, 1991 he married the former Margaret Boudreau in Laurens. Allan was employed as operations foreman…
LIBBY’S BEST BETS • THINGS TO DO Get Ya Baseball Here! Induction Weekend Here By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com It’s the biggest weekend of the year, as the Boys of Summer return to Cooperstown for their Induction – the 80th – into the Hall of Fame at 1:30 p.m. Sunday, July 21, in the field next to the Clark Sports Center. The induction is free; bring a lawn chair or blanket for comfortable viewing. Info www.baseballhall.org • In the…
National Pastime’s Stars Giving Autographs Here Editor’s Note: Here are where the MLB stars will be signing autographs this weekend. ► Roberto Alomar, TBA Tunnicliff Inn ►Jeff Bagwell, TBA Tunnicliff Inn ►HAROLD BAINES, Noon Monday, July 22, Tunnicliff Inn ►JESSE BARFIELD, 2-4:30 p.m., 6-9 p.m. Thursday, July 18, 9:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m., 2-4:30 p.m., 6-9 p.m., Friday & Saturday, July 19 & 20, 9 a.m.-1 p.m., 3:30 p.m.-close, Sunday, July 21, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Monday, July 22, Cooperstown Bat Company. ►…
HOMETOWN History July 19, 2019 By TOM HEITZ & SHARON STEWART • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com 150 Years Ago Jacob C. Dietz, of Anamosa, Iowa, is spending a few weeks here among the homes and haunts of his early life, and is greeted most cordially on all hands. In childhood, youth and early manhood, “Jake” had the way that always wins and keeps many friends. Now that he comes back to us broadened-out by the whole-souled progressive manhood of glorious Iowa,…
BOUND VOLUMES July 18, 2019 By TOM HEITZ & SHARON STEWART • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com 200 YEARS AGO Died at Jerusalem, Ontario, on the 8th inst. – Jemima Wilkinson, commonly called the “Universal Friend,” aged 66 years. Her complaint, we learn, was the dropsy. A few moments previous to her death she placed herself in her Chapel, and called in her disciples one by one, and gave each a solemn admonition, then raised her hands, closed her eyes and gave…
EDITORIAL Fans, Cooperstown Spent $10-15 Million Preparing For You Welcome, Induction attendees! Will there really be more than a record-breaking 84,000 of us? Excitement. If you’re been here before, look around: You will see many changes and improvements to Cooperstown’s downtown that have occurred since the last record-setter, when Cal Ripken Jr. and Tony Gwynn set the record for attendance in 2008. If you came then, you might be astonished by what you see now. Then, all the sidewalks were…
IN MEMORIAM H. Karl Chandler, 82, Oneonta; Investigator In Ricky Parisian Case ONEONTA – H. Karl Chandler, 82 of Oneonta, who rose to lead the Troop C Major Crimes Division in 38 years with the state police, died peacefully at home on July 10, 2019, after a nine-year battle of cancer. Senior investigator in the case of Ricky Parisian, the state trooper shot during a 1993 holdup in a Southside supermarket, Karl was born on Jan. 17, 1937, in Sayre,…