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Baseball Hall Of Fame Welcomes Class of ’19

HALL OF FAME INDUCTION 2019 Baseball Hall Of Fame Welcomes Class Of ’19 55,000 Fans Attended, 2nd Largest The 2019 inductees into the Baseball Hall of Fame – from left, Harold Baines, Lee Smith, Edgar Martinez, Michael Mussina, Mariano Rivera, and Brandy Halladay, accepting the plaque posthumously on behalf of her husband Roy Halladay – pose for a group photo on the stage following their Induction ceremony earlier today in the field next to the Clark Sports Center.  If your…

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Downtown Crowd Will Peak With 6 p.m. Parade

HALL OF FAME INDUCTION 2019 Downtown Crowd Will Peak With 6 p.m. Parade The crowd was building by 1 p.m. today in downtown Cooperstown, and will peak beginning about an hour – with the 6 p.m. start of the Parade of Legends, when almost 60 Hall of Famers in town, including the six new ones who will be inducted at 1:30 p.m. tomorrow, are ferried up Main Street to a private reception in the Hall of Fame’s Hall of Plaques. …

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Hundreds Of Lawn Chairs In Place At Ceremony Site

HALL OF FAME INDUCTION 2019 Hundreds Of Lawn Chairs In Place At Ceremony Site With some predicting tomorrow’s 1:30 p.m. Induction of Yankee phenom Mariano Rivera and five MLB colleagues will break attendance records – the heat wave encompassing the Northeast may dampen that – many more fans than usual are thinking ahead and getting out to the field next to the Clark Sports Center to reserve a good spot to view their Heroes of the Game.  By noon today,…

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Crowds Growing On Main Street

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…

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Mildred Jennings, 88, Cooperstown, Pioneered Switchboard At Bassett

IN MEMORIAM Millie Jennings, 88, Cooperstown; Pioneered Switchboard At Bassett COOPERSTOWN – Mildred “Millie” L. Jennings, retired chief switchboard operator at Bassett Hospital, died Wednesday evening, July 17, 2019, with her loving family beside her at Fox Nursing Home in Oneonta.  She was 88. Mildred Lucy Bridger was born Jan. 29, 1931, at home in Middlefield, one of 13 children of Orlando and Nellie Mary (Page) Bridger.  Raised in Middlefield, she attended school there. On Aug. 27, 1950, she married…

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Again, Post Office Here Offers Induction Stamp

HALL OF FAME INDUCTION 2019 Again, Post Office Here Offers Induction Stamp COOPERSTOWN – The post office here is again marking Induction Weekend with a souvenir picture postmark – also known as a pictorial cancellation in collectors’ circles — to be offered at a special postal booth 9-6 p.m. this Sunday in the post office’s parking lot. The postmark bears an image of the logo of the Baseball Hall of Fame and Sunday’s Induction Day ceremony date. The Postal Service…

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Retired D.C. Lawyer Elected Bassett Network Board Chair

Hastings Has Home On Otsego Lake Retired D.C. Lawyer Elected Bassett Network Board Chair COOPERTOWN – The Bassett Healthcare Network Board of Directors elected Douglas Hastings, retired chairman of a Washington D.C. law firm specializing in health-care law, as its new chairman during the annual meeting Tuesday in Cooperstown, the hospital system announced today. Hastings succeeds Ralph H. Meyer, former Guthrie Health System CEO, who has completed his term as chair, but will remain on the network board. Hastings, a…

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