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Jane Clark Wins Standing Ovation Rare Appearance Draws Overflow Crowd In a rare local public address, Jane Forbes Clark, Cooperstown’s #1 citizen, packed the Hall of Fame’s Grandstand Theater to overflowing this afternoon with a talk on her family’s legacy in Cooperstown and Otsego County. She detailed the activities of The Clark Foundation (college scholarships, plus much more), The Scriven Foundation (support for local charities, plus much more), and the one for-profit entity, The Leatherstocking Corp., which operates The Otesaga, The…
Carlton Fisk Helps Cut Ribbon On Hall’s ‘Whole New Game’ REVIEW DETAILS OF THE HALL’S LATEST EXHIBIT…
Hall Leadership Remembers Yogi As Icon, Legend, Great American “Yogi Berra was an American icon, whose impact on baseball and everyday American culture was enormous. Yogi connected with every baseball fan, as a 10-time World Series winner with the New York Yankees, as one of the world’s most notable personalities, and as one of baseball’s most beloved Hall of Fame members. His contributions to our game and to our country will never be forgotten. The National Baseball Hall of Fame…
HOWARD C. TALBOT OBITUARY Calling Hours Tuesday, Funeral Wednesday For Retired Baseball Hall Of Fame Director COOPERSTOWN – Howard Chase Talbot, Jr., retired National Baseball Hall of Fame director – the equivalent at the time of today’s president – from 1976 to 1993, passed away with his family by his side Saturday evening, July 18, 2015, at Bassett Hospital. He was 89. Born Oct. 6, 1925, in New Berlin, Howard was the son of Howard C. Talbot, Sr. and Gladys…
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Celebration On Glimmerglass’ Shores Opens Bunny Hamilton Amphitheatre COOPERSTOWN – With a laugh-eliciting comment, “this could be dangerous,” benefactress Mrs. Lewis L. “Bunny” Hamilton cut the ribbon this evening on a lake-side amphitheatre named in her honor at “Otsego: A Meeting Place,” the Native-American-themed exhibit behind The Fenimore Art Museum. She used a pair of shears crafted especially for the occasion in The Farmers’ Museum blacksmith shop. NYSHA President Paul D’Ambrosio presented the shears to Mrs. Hamilton as a memento of her…
Bassett Reaches Out: Jane Forbes Clark, Dr. Brown Calm Upset Neighbors By JIM KEVLIN • The Freeman’s Journal Edition of Thursday, Nov. 20, 2014 Bassett has reached out to its neighbors, and the neighbors – disgruntled as recently as Sept. 29 at a Village Hall hearing on simplifying the hospital’s planning challenges by placing it in a single “institutional zone” – seem satisfied for now. “They were in full listening mode,” neighbor Bill Waller, Beaver Street, said after he and…
Hall’s Prominence Surprised Stephen Clark, Homer Osterhoudt By JIM KEVLIN • allotsego.com COOPERSTOWN – Few people realized the Baseball Hall of Fame’s potential when it was officially opened on June 12, 1939, 75 years ago this year. Not Homer Osterhoudt, then a young man in his 20s standing in the lower left of photos taken that day of the throng in front of 25 Main. (Osterhoudt, now in his mid-90s, has attended every induction except three since then.) At the…
CBS News Profiles ‘The Woman Behind Iconic Cooperstown’ COOPERSTOWN – “Fifty thousand people are expected to pour into Cooperstown this weekend to help celebrate the induction of six legendary names into the National Baseball Hall of Fame,” CBS This Morning reported today. “But as CBS News travel editor Peter Greenberg reports, the chairman of the Hall has a unique history of her own, and she doesn’t even work for the major leagues,” it continued. “‘I hope someday that some of…