ANNALS OF COOPERSTOWN At 72, He Ends His Baseball Career With Dignity – At Doubleday Field Editor’s Note: Doug Davis, 72, of Windham, Maine, fulfilled a lifelong dream this fall: At 72, he pitched from the mound in Cooperstown’s Doubleday Field. This is republished from The Freeman’s Journal and Hometown Oneonta newspapers of Nov. 5-6. By DOUG DAVIS • Special to AllOTSEGO.com On Sunday, Oct. 11, on Doubleday Field, I played my last baseball game. For years I’d wanted to play…
Tourism Industry Provides $10,000 In Sweat Equity By JIM KEVLIN • for allotsego.com COOPERSTOWN – Three dozen volunteers from Tourism Cares are painting the bleachers at Doubleday Field at this hour, part of a national effort that allows hundreds of tourism professionals to “give back” annually. The volunteers will be able to say, “I painted the outfield wall at Doubleday Field and swung a bat at home plate,” said Jay Smith of Sports Travel & Tours, Hatfield, Mass., the official travel…