Cooperstown, New York is a superb little city. Have a look at this place! Give me this lake, a small sailboat, some beer and I’d gladly spend the entire summer time there.
However Cooperstown, New York has completely nothing — NOTHING — to do with the historical past of baseball.
You recognize what does have one thing to do with the historical past of baseball? The campus of Northeastern College, which hosted the primary World Sequence sport ever performed on the late Huntington Avenue Baseball Grounds.
It has by no means ceased to amaze me that, in a metropolis filled with vacationers main bored youngsters from one historic web site to a different, this cool-as-shit statue hides in plain sight, virtually utterly ignored. Although, in fact, I sort of prefer it that means. It’s legitimately haunting to face at that plate in an remoted grove with nobody else round, staring into Cy Younger’s eyes, realizing that the very grime you’ve dug your toes into was as soon as the epicenter of the American sporting world.
If you happen to’re round Huntington Ave right now, the day of Recreation 1 of the 2025 World Sequence, take a minute to go test it out and hang around with some ghosts.
Discuss what you need and be good to at least one one other.
