Nice town. Wouldn't want to live there.
With a few possible exceptions, and I apologize to those of you who are those exceptions, Red Sox fans are the most obnoxious and rude baseball fans by far, if their Hall of Fame etiquette is any indication. Loud, rude, pushy, and kinda dumb. And if I had to hear "where's dah sawk?" one more time, I was gonna give someone a good sock.
How many baseball souvenir shops can one small town have?
Don't waste your money on the wax museum. While there's some funny things in there (like the "Pete Rose Induction" exhibit, or Steinbrenner and Constanza), they have a figure of Roger
Maris in the right hands batters box, and misspell Vin Scully as Vin Sculty on a placard. No need for that.I never knew that Cy Young wasn't his name. Cy that is. It was short for Cyclone. Annoyingly enough I can't remember his real name off the top of my head.
A League of Their Own took MANY liberties with the real AAGPBL. For instance, it was more like softball pretty much the entire period of WWII. Only near the end, in the 50s, did the rules become more like baseball.
There's something magical about watching a game at Doubleday Field, even if the "history" of Cooperstown is a bit bogus.
I highly recommend the Italian restaurant on Main Street next to the CVS.
There's a Chinese take out type place on Pioneer Street called Foo Kin John. That's hilarious.
I know many people named John who will get sent this image at times.You shouldn't take a child under 5 or 6 in to a huge musuem. It took me and my friend about 7 hours to get through it. Think about what a place like that would do to a small child. Then think about what that cranky small child does to me. Now, make it like 100 cranky small children, but still only one of me.
Did I mention lately that I hate people?
I went once, back in '90. 'twas awesome then, I can only assume 'twas awesome now.
ReplyDeleteHmmm....may have to drag the wife for a day soon.
The waxworks..? No, I don't fancy an hour or two of, "hey, there's another guy with a shirt on."
ReplyDeleteChrist, will you kindly just LAY OFF us Coopers now????
ReplyDeleteSincerely,
C. Cooper (Sob)
Bart if ya wanna shoot me your email address (mine can be found in my profile) then I can interview ya too.
ReplyDeleteCooperstown is pretty cool
seven hours with small children... I dont envy that at all
ReplyDeleteWow. My brother & I have been going to Cooperstown since we were knee-high to a grasshopper. Seriously, I think were were like 4 & 6. We always went to the Hall of Fame -- and behaved pretty well, according to my dad. But we grew up on watching baseball and going to ball games, so we were interested in all that. That and we were taught how to act in public. I think some of the problem now is so many people can't be bothered to teach their children how to behave.
ReplyDeleteThere are definitely a ton of baseball shops but what do you expect from a town that eats-sleeps-drinks baseball? =P The town about shuts down once baseball season is over. You can find some pretty cool stuff if you go looking in some of them. We used to go up sometimes two or three times a year. A lot of the shop & restaurant owners knew us by name, even from year to year. I went back with my dad about 5 years ago, and it had been a while since I'd been up there. Quite a few people stopped to say hello to my dad and then about fell over when they realized I was the little daughter he used to have with him.
Never went to the wax museum. One of my favorite things to do is wander the side streets and down to Lake Ostego with my camera. That and I love Doubleday Field for some reason. I could just sit there, game or not, and absorb baseball for a while.
Jeez... All that rambling I did, and I forgot to ask the one thing I meant to. ::smacks forehead::
ReplyDeleteDo they still have a good Ripken display? They did -- a whole room! -- last time I was there. With the upcoming induction, I would imagine they have a good tribute. I would hope anyway.
Brian -
ReplyDeleteYou should. It was quite awing to see all of that lore.
Chert -
ReplyDeleteWell, that's the other thing. Few hours? Try a few minutes. Not very large at all, and for a place purporting itself to be a place for "heroes" they left out quite a few heroes.
Carol -
ReplyDeleteNot my fault you have a common last name.
Terry -
ReplyDeleteWell, it wasn't like I was completely surrounded by small children. They were sprinkled throughout.
Dawn -
ReplyDeleteThey did have a Ripken display, but they may have moved it from it's normal location to Induction Row. It was sort of it's own room, but not really.
I didn't know Cy was short for Cyclone!
ReplyDeleteAnd I love the shot of the takeaway!
If I remember correctly, Ripken's display was first located in the main lobby of the Hall Museum, right after you first enter. Then they moved it upstairs, to that room that is right outside the "locker room" where all the uniforms are displayed. Of course, this is all based on how the Hall was set up when I was there five years ago.
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