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••41 COOPERSTOWN - SECTION H FREEMAN’S JOURNAL i> p o r t s t O N H JL. APRIL 26,1995 G « i^ '^ W K * m O a £ f c S jK ) K s C ® p v /m : ^ a iftoa^ed doulia eitoitoaiion ioiai»a®enu an4 t e R m team is guaiaweed twa maselies. dna v'omOT must t e or ifie coarf i t 1;, Fof more aifoiroaiioR oaB S^iipadJS ai.$47»J!8w. Youfli baseball ewiils plaiuieS C00PE8ST?0WN - W $Vc»» are planited ior the s m of tbe Coo{»r8townYoutftBa^1iil‘^ontbisweekend. : Tlu! Coofeistovsm BasetJi^ Btmsters afe sponsoring a funri-raisitig d ^ e firom 8-11 pjm. AprB 28 at the Pepper Mill, ^«s»stis$5per|xas(mana|»^1[teve!in»TlTO Tlie league’s “Li^ts oo IM d e ” will he held at 9:30 a;m. on Sanirdaif, April 29 o» Mtto Street, Afti^ (he pamde, the league will be collaring donations throughout the local area. Ail donarionswUl be greatly appreciated Thursday Bowliiig League results COOPERSTOWN - BowUng in tbs aarl? Sports Ccftter’s Thursday Night League took place on April 20 and the results are as follows: Standfiiigs - Hurricanes. 40-12; Sexy Misfits. 38-14; Fun BowUng. a>-23; RoUing Thunder, 26-26; Femmes + l. 23-29. Freshman Mike P u g l i a will t e one o f the leaders for the C(K>perstown High School golf team this year. CCS golf team wins 1995 season-opener By BILL FRANCIS Sports Editor CXX)PERSTOWN - This season will be the swan stmg for a vetman of dm Cooperstown Ifigb School coaching fraternity. Coleman and John Ca^elL the Redskins tegan defense of their CSC title hfimday, April 24. with a 181-218 CSC win over visit ing Cheinf Valley-Springfield on die fiom n ^ of the Ltmitmmtocldng RiiXQlbyBllJFrincta Coca-Cola donated this newly installed electric scoreboard at the Cooperstown Little League Field. 'nianks to the Cooperstown Boosters, die Cooperstown I League Field has acquired two sets of aluminum bleachers. CYB begins play this weekend Benefit dance to be held Friday night and a parade Saturday morning Optimistically, I'm looking for the building to be up by next summer. Architect Fred Ferriola is still working on the plans for the building.^* By BILL FRANCIS Sports Editor COOPERSTOWN ■ Youth springs eternal in the village where baseb^l Duces its origins. The Mills Commission was appointed in 190S D> detetmine die origin of the gmne of baseball. The comtnissicHi’s final report on Dec. 30.1907 stated in jan that. “The first scheme f a playing ba^ball, according to the be^ evittence obtainable to date, was d e v i ^ by Abner Doubleday at Cooperstown, NY in 1839.\ One hundred fifty-six years later, Cooperstown area children are sriU playing the sport htnded down by Doubleday. Dcspim strlfeonapro- fc^onal level, it’s t!» youngsi^ ihat carry on the traditions o f the National Fastime. For approximately 200 local boys and girb aged 6-12 involved in the Cooperstown Youth Baseball pro gram, memtmts of a long winter have been r^laced with die sounds of bat hitting ball and fists pound ing leatha pockets of fielding gloves. This year, the majors (ages 10-12) have four trams, the minws (ages 8-10) have six tean^. and t- ball (ages 6-8) has seven teams. The youri) ba^ball season will last the entire summa. Hie regular season schedule runs till die end of June and the all-star teams play for the remainder of the summer. Every summer, teams from around the country cry to schedule games wtdi one or more of the local all-star teams. Last year a squad from Ireland played in Cooperstown, while thfa year there has been inthresi from teams in Miaroi and Toronto. The season kicks off at 9:30 am. Saturday with the Cooperstown Youth Baseball League’s annual “Li^ts on Parade.” The parade has players from all 17 local youth base ball tean^ march from the National Bas^mU Hall of Fame to the Cooperstown Elementary School. After the parade, the players from the majors and minos go out by teams and canvas the area houses to house f a donations to the program. According to Terry Bhss. presi dent of the Coo{»rstown Youth Baseball program and a member of the C^perstown Boosters, dona- ticms go towards such things as bats, balls, insurance and umpire.s While the older kids are coUeci ing donations, there will be T ball games going on at the Little League Field located on Linden Avenue. The Cooperstown Boosters, a group involved with improvemcnL', to i J k Ltttle League Field, will be spon soring a dance at the Pettier Mill from 8-11 pjn. Friday. There will be a S3 cover {^rson and the band Travelm’ T t o will be { form ing. “The dance is to raise money and draw attention to the progress the group IS making with the building project,\ Bliss said. Bliss also added that the group has received a good resfxinse lor new billboards along the ouu'icld fence. Groups make thei moscum, which had its official rib- boR-€Dtting ceremony on Feb. 10. houses more than 1,000 Irassball anifacts...die 300 aitifiicts ( hi loan fnan the BasebaB Hall of Fame rep resent the largest oillKtion ever loaned out by the insUtu- tioB..incttulbd are rente 140 sipifi- caat aitif^ts liKluding hats frtom Ted Williams and Rogers Ronishy, _ __ _ T%^tU Hank Aaron Gold Glove award. Bonus Wagner's shoes and aiiifacts from Forties Field to Skyl^nre in Ttsonto. Of Rtitbian ProportfoD»Jn memoiy of Ruth, who would have ttsiffid ICO years old on Feb. 6, we oflTar the foUthvIsg trivia qtres- ilon mul <|DOte...Whkh stadium in Chiarelto’s final year ^ co^b poipssing, but I wiQ be abk to tell Japan has a plaque horreiing Hts beQt»ofhisl}esi,ashe(CUttns ffiaea£t3’af6wfnsemate!»s.'* Stadium in jerseys from Babe Roth. Tom mom ctHiiainsmc^ than 100 plums Seava and Lou Gehrig, Willie GusChimelIo,ateachaaithehigh Golf Course 8>dr-3S). school, will to teriring ^ rim eml of “R was^ofcoldootriiSR! i the scixml year and, wiUt ritat, giving I tmg|adwe^aitsd«a|]^ ”< up tbe rifle of ReMirts gidf c c ^ . a said. \Hie mam got a 0!^ bit of .......................ir 16 years. wads to t o week. I think the team Is ptherii position he has told for l6 years. t7i»ar aa r*ji% S?b Center State Conference 1 ^ crown lastse^ii. Other teams in the CSC East Coopierstown has an 11-memtor 47s,«rflliDkomYaiM^a48. slgja. i ^msd Here f it a§Me«aceh. — ....... .. ..... — ____ _ luniof Jed Saits fed fte way for ing « ti!m « lingaiit. M tiilw e n t -- ------ ..... squad this year. The mp remining CV-§ a ‘aefii® o f 47. The t o e , rim crowd was ^ ifflWd isiBy to Bfito Ruih go%is include freshman M i^ RaKioti’'^itfripiii^ei3toduife^ t o fien^tdb^w toB |c% !nem l4fro$Mes«fi^i^- PogUese. seniors Mke Muehl and senisf Sfrorf i 0 O l ^ o m o r e the psk, ssnehody toM i»o rihaf b ^ and gotf, toclwfiti Iris King of Mason Sanford, jonlcfr Kevin Burke Joris Ifeyeili CS$) and tomor Tom iiepltoe- Swat«i^y;Qhmh!nis.hicI»rilngtils and ^ p tom a e Shawn P o to y . ' Snrilh i$Z% ' nmn .to gel Mm ® Cplrihii citoir and \d i e d Mt « d on the fence the first year, and year afterwards to Bliss, the Little pay S200 per ling t teldi formation that may eventually include a two-story building bchii ir afterwards Accordi League Field, is undergoing a ihe backstop. This building would include two bathrooms, a kitchen area, a concession window, a stor age area, a small office, and a stair case leading to a second floor area Irom which to broadcast and keep ■‘Optimistically, I’m looking for the building to be up by next sum mer,” Bliss said. ‘Architect Fred Femola is suU working on the plans for the building We have also received a commitment from one of our local supporters, con tractor John Schallert. to do all the concrete work for free \ While the building project is sull m the planning stages, there has been tangible evidence of field improvements this year by the Cooperstown Boosters thanks to donations and community effort. 'The elettnc scoretxiard is now up. It wasdonatra by CbcaCoIa w nh the promise that wc would sell Coke and not Pepsi at the field for the next Inc years Homer Lindstadt and Steve Reynolds donated their ume to run the cicctnc service,\ Bliss said. \W c have also added two new sets aluminum bleachers wrrnh SL(XX). picy arc each five rows and 21 feet long and run along the first and third to.se lines We arc also in the process of building dugout lanic- turcs which would replace the exposed benches we have now ” Around the Horn A Gllmpre of Coopmtotvn in ‘He just sai and rat rill he’d made Ihe Soutb„.Con^ts to the Tstas everybody happy.’ But that’s the Rangos on tbe opening o f liieir trew way he was. He wtuld never dirap- L^ends of the Game Baseball point anybody if to could help it.” Maseatn, located in Arlington Lloyd Waner, from \A Donald Stadium...riie 17,(MXhsquaie-faot Htmig R sr I o ” by Donmd Htmig. icmig Rc Roth in Cooperatown...The Baseball HaU of Fame and Museum celebrates Babe Ruth's contributions to the game every day of the yrar in CooiKist 0 wn..ians oaveling to the museum can see some of the more imoesting arrifacts araociated with Ruth’s tife to the Babe Ruth Room, kKatoi on the sbcoih ) floor of the mtiraum...catsDuc^ to 1992. rite and arrifacts. video footage and posteis, all contributing to tto sto^r of this 20ih century sports legend who was re giving of his time to chi!dfen...the room is lined «rith a replira Yankee Stadium fitrade...aIso to rite room is this quom from Hall of Famer Waite Hoyt: “Don't tell me abffliE Roth. I’ve seen what he did to I ^ I e . I’ve sren than; fans driving miles to open wagons through the {KBiries of ^ M o m a to ^ him to _ ____ rii^ led Bssit team sma out with ^ ^aka...“ile(ametoHtisbiiFgfrto e^birion games as he headed North 13-3 record aiKl golfemi and totals of tto top four ptoy and after one of toe games. 1 to rite s |^g . I’ve reen them; kids. ** reores on em:h side determines rite was leaving ri» bsUps& lo go home men, wmnen. woishipeis all, toping OUtCOtoe. anil ttora’x RaM sigiring aittqg^ lw , I^gtose had rite tost n»nd of rite sutpui^ei by ilris caowrri. I'Q men, wmnen. woishipeis all, toping to gel Ms same mi a tan, d ii^ p i ^ d f ^ . or fr^ng ks a ^ t of letopirimi wton they said, ’Hi ya. Babe.' He never let ri»m down; not OQS. He was (to greaiesi crovd Irieaser o f ri®m of the a ' c T O ' ^ t s a w . j N ... ; ’y ' - i' SiSs
