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Cooperstown, New York, Thursday, June 19, 2014

For Babe’s Descendant, A Surprise

Amanda Stevens examines a wedding photo featuring her grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Babe Ruth.

Amanda Stevens Discovers Photo Of Great-Grandparents, Wedding Day

By TERESA WINCHESTER COOPERSTOWN

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isits to Cooperstown have always been part of Amanda Stevens’ life.

For the annual Baseball Hall of Fame Induction, her family would rent a

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house here and stay for several days. (Her father and brother still make the yearly pilgrimage.) And she often had a chance to meet Major League ballplayers. (Cal Ripken Jr. is her favorite.)

For Stevens, now living in Cambridge, Mass., is Babe Ruth’s great-granddaughter.

“There are many opportunities I’m blessed Please See BABE, A6

Ian Austin/The Freeman’s Journal

HALL TURNS 75

“Race the Lake” winner James Sullivan, Chelmsford, Mass., was greeted by wife Colleen and daughter Cailin after winning Cooperstown’s first marathon in 2:54:34 Saturday, June 14/STORY, MORE PHOTOS, A2

Vance Brown, New Bassett CEO, Arrives COOPERSTOWN

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r. Vance Brown, Bassett Healthcare’s new president/CEO, arrived at the Cooperstown campus Monday, June 16.

He will spend two weeks in transition discussions with Dr. William F. Streck, the 30-year president/CEO who is retiring July 1.

Dr. Brown, chief medical officer at MaineHealth, Portland, was hired March 28 after a year-long national search/SEE PHOTO, A7 BASEBALL RAFFLE: The Cooperstown Rotary Foundation is raffling off 20 autographed baseballs – Joe DiMaggio, Willie Mays and 18 more – in a wood display case. The raffle is limited to 100 tickets at $50 each, to benefit the foundation. To buy a ticket, e-mail cooperstownrotaryfoundation@ gmail.com.

LOCAL CREATION: The Hall of Fame’s 75th anniversary birthday cake was created by Schneider’s Bakery, Cooperstown; proprietor, Jason Long.

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he Hall of Plaques, photo at far right, was SRO Thursday, June 12, as fans and dignitaries celebrated the 75th anniversary of the Hall of Fame’s first Induction, in 1939.

Above, Hall Chair Jane Forbes Clark, with Hall of Famers Cal Ripken Jr., left, and Phil Niekro, cut the 75th birthday cake.

At right, one of the Hall’s Steele interns, Molly Becker, joins in the applause and cheers as the cake is cut, then distributed.

Jim Kevlin/The Freeman’s Journal

INSIDE: MISS CLARK’S REMARKS, A4 • MORE PHOTOS, STORIES, B1 • ALSO, VISIT WWW.ALLOTSEGO.COM

Chamber Names Executive Director Matt Hazzard Replaces Pat Szarpa On Interim Basis – For Now COOPERSTOWN

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he Cooperstown Chamber of Commerce Tuesday, June 17, announced the appointment of Matt Hazzard as interim executive director, and Chamber

President Ken Meifert said he and the board expect that he will fill the position long term.

“Matt has a great combination: Long affinity with the community, having grown up Please See HAZZARD, A7

Village Applies For $½ Million To ‘Jumpstart’ 22 Main Upgrade COOPERSTOWN

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he Village Board has applied for a $500,000 CFA grant that, if approved, would “hugely jumpstart” a $2 mil-

lion planned renovation of 22 Main, the historic Village Hall, according to Mayor Jeff Katz.

The grant, plus the village’s $166,000 match, Please See 22 MAIN, A7

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Cooperstown’s Brian Heneghan Helps Clarkson Win Business-Plan Contest POTSDAM

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larkson University junior Brian Heneghan, Cooperstown, took at third place in the Product Services category at the North Country Regional Business Plan Competition.

Heneghan pitched the plan for Airvo.

Clarkson University teams came home with four

Cooperstown 10U All-Stars played a series at the All-Star Village, SaturdayTuesday, June 14-17.

Standing in the back are coaches Brian Hascup and Kerry Ford, left, and Mark Kirby and Don Smith, right.

The boys, front row from left, are Ian Poole, Ethan Kukenberger, Liam Ford, Jason Furnari, Matt LoRusso and Braydon Hascup.

Back row, from left, are Gavin Lesko, Adam Hall, Derek Hochbrueckner, Alex Hascup, Alex Hage, Abe Lippitt.

first-place, four secondplace, and two third-place awards at the competition, competing against five other universities and colleges.

The students earned prizes of $2,000 each for first place, $1,000 each for second place, and $500 each for third place.

In addition, Heneghan, who is studying mechanical engineering, was named to the fall 2013 Dean’s list.

Congratulations Connor!

Connor Voulo and Sensei Thomas Arcuri of Bailey’s Karate School

Connor Voulo of Fly Creek, is 10 years old and received his 1st degree Junior Black Belt on May 9th at Rome Free Academy.

He is a 5th grader at Cooperstown Elementary School and has been studying for the last 5 years with 6th degree Black Belt, Sensei Thomas Arcuri of Bailey’s Karate School in Herkimer. Karate fosters self-discipline, encourages physical activity, non-violent conflict resolution skills, and increases self esteem. This is an AMAZING achievement for someone so young!

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NAZARETH GRAD: Cailin Huggins of Cooperstown received a bachelor of science degree in Studio Art from Nazareth College at the 87th annual commencement Saturday, May 11, in Rochester.

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UVM HONOREE: Eamonn Maguire, Cooperstown, is on the University of Vermont’s Dean’s List for the spring semester.

The sophomore is majoring in mechanical engineering.

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ames Sullivan, an accountant from Chelmsford, Mass., who has run six marathons – including Boston’s – in the past eight weeks, crossed the finish line at 10.53.07 p.m. today, winning the firstever Cooperstown marathon, “Race The Lake.”

His time was 2:54:34, and he finished a good mile ahead of the second finisher, Dierdre Dwyer, of Poughkeepsie (the family has a weekend home locally), who won the half-marathon in 1:29:44.

Overall, 120 runners competed in “Race the Lake,” 40 in the 26.2-mile marathon and the rest, bused up to the Springfield Community Center, the 13.1-mile halfmarathon.

Other marathon winners were: second, Matthew Downs, New Hartford, 3:09:01; third, Peter Davis, Livingston, 3:14:20.

Cooperstown’s Andrew Rock, took second in the half-marathon, 1:30:29; third was Yvette DeBoer, Ithaca, 1:32:03.

Clark employee Tara Arnold was among the top 10 finishers.

“Some of the bigger marathons are not so well supported as this one,” said Sullivan, who praised the “beautiful views” throughout the 26.2-mile run. “It had some really hard hills around 13-14,” that stretch of East Lake Road, but otherwise the route was fairly level. The cool temperatures – the mid-50s – also made for ideal running weather, he said.

Race organizer Doug McCoy concurred: Runners “went out of their way at the finish to talk with me and say that the people on the course helping (most of which are from area businesses and local residents that volunteered many hours to help) were unbelievable in their attitude to the runners. “... This community hit it spot on.”

Dierdre’s sister, Siobhan, was not far behind her, but both girls were waiting with mom Joan for dad Terrence and brother Brian to cross the finish line. On Mother’s Day, “we challenged our brother,” said Siobhan, adding a little guiltily: “And hadn’t run in eight years.”

Sullivan, whose wife Colleen and baby daughter Cailin were there to cheer him on at the finish line, said his running career just kind of happened. He started with 5Ks, then 10Ks. “Once you do a half-marathon,” you have to do a marathon, he said.

James Sullivan, on center line, led at the starting line at Susquehanna Avenue near the Clark Sports Center, and maintained his lead for two hours, 54 minutes and 34 seconds, winning the first “Race the Lake” marathon.

CCS third-grade teacher Kathleen Galland-Bennett finishes the half-marathon in 2:21:57.

Pals Lynne Mebust, left, and Jeanne Dewey crossed the finish line together, one second apart in the half-marathon.

Runner Nancy Potter, Cooperstown, takes a cup of water from Meg Kiernan at the first rest station by The Farmers’ Museum.

Mayor Jeff Katz shows his trafficcontrol skills as Melissa Zimmerman passes him at the north entrance to Cooper Park.

Photos by Paul Donnelly, Jim Kevlin/The Freeman’s Journal

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EDITORIALS

Abner Doubleday Story Is True. And It’s Ours

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uring Stalin’s show trials – old-line Bolsheviks were brought to the dock in Moscow in 1937-38, accused of treason – a wide-eyed reporter for a Western news agency asked a hardened oldtimer, A.T. Cholerton of the London-based Daily Telegraph: Are the accusations true?

As the story goes, Cholerton replied: Yes. Everything is true, except the facts.

Why does this bring the Abner Doubleday story to mind on this 75th anniversary of the National Baseball Hall of Fame’s first induction? Turn Cholerton’s phrasing around: Except for the facts of the Doubleday story, everything is true.

It’s been said, if Cooperstown didn’t exist – and by extension, Abner Doubleday – baseball would have had to invent it. And so it is.

• A quick recap is in order.

It was the Mills Commis-

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sion, formed to determine the origins of baseball, that announced on Dec. 30, 1907, that Abner Doubleday invented baseball in 1839 in the Phinney pasture, now the site of Doubleday Field.

The commission ruled Doubleday “had invented the word ‘baseball,’ designed the diamond, indicated fielders’ positions, and written the rules,” the Wikipedia entry relates. Then it goes on: “No written records in the decade between 1839 and 1849 have ever

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been found to corroborate these claims, nor could Doubleday be interviewed (he died in 1893).”

The commission based its findings on the recollections of Abner Graves of Denver, Colo., who spent four years in Cooperstown around 1839. A few years later, Graves shot his wife and spent his final years in an insane asylum. How interesting is that?

Still, Abner Doubleday certainly played baseball as a young man. And, as any veteran of sandlot baseball knows, there’s always a dominant young personality who makes up the rules as the game goes along. Given his later career, rising to general in the Civil War and beyond, he was certainly a leader among his young peers.

A memory comes to mind of annual marathon wiffle ball games. The rule was, when players could no longer see the ball, the game was over. If his team

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was behind, one dominant personality, let’s call him George, would call out, “I can see it, I can see it,” well past dusk, until his team gained the advantage or mothers would call their boys to late suppers from the back stoop.

Abner was certainly a George, issuing rulings as games ensued on corner lots. Arguably, Abner Doubleday didn’t NOT invent baseball; rather, hundreds and thousands of Abner Doubledays, together, across the nation, invented baseball as we know it today.

• These days, you often hear the term, “Abner Doubleday Myth,” and it’s meant dismissively. But it’s wrong to equate “myth” with “untruth.” Myths – creation myths, for instance, that are found in every society on earth – are indicators of a deeper truth about the societies from which they emerge.

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So it is with the Abner Doubleday story. The “facts” were always in doubt, so it’s interesting that they were embraced, held to fast, for generations. It’s only been in the last quartercentury that the literalists gained the upper hand.

Lovers of baseball, let’s take the story back.

It’s time to understand the deeper truth in the Doubleday story. And, happily, no community has greater access to people who understand the meaning of “folklore,” if you will, than Cooperstown.

The Cooperstown Graduate Program and The Farmers’ Museum, certainly, have access to resources to explain why baseball’s creation myth is as powerful as any.

There’s a profound thesis there, or symposium, or study. As powerful as any, and it’s ours. Let’s not run away from it, as we’ve been doing.

Let’s understand the Doubleday story and cel-

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• Another story.

When the son was a boy, he and his dad would toss around a baseball every evening, back and forth, tens of thousands of times, until the light grew dim and, yes, George, it indeed was too dark to see it.

The boy grew into a teen and, as boys do, he sought an independence far beyond his father. And then, the other afternoon, on cleaning the back porch together, they ran across a bucket and, inside, were two gloves and a baseball (plus a couple of ice-fishing tip-ups.)

A toss and a catch. A toss and a catch. And soon the two were back in the oldtime rhythm. The memories flowed, of chilly spring evenings in the backyard, of the throw and the slap, as the red sky turned grey and evening descended.

Yes, Abner Doubleday lives indeed.

HRIVES Hall Chairman Jane Forbes Clark addresses a standingroom-only crowd of invited guests and fans in the Hall of Plaques on Thursday, June 12, the 75th anniversary of the Hall’s first Induction ceremony.

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editor’s Note: This is an excerpt of remarks by Hall of Fame Chairman Jane Forbes Clark on the 75th anniversary of the Hall of Fame, founded by her grandfather, Stephen C. Clark. t was 75 years ago today that this museum officially opened its doors after our first Induction ceremony.

Covered nationally by three networks, there were 15,000 people here for the ceremony, as the first four classes of electees were formally inducted that day.

Of those first 26 Hall of Fame members, 12 were living and were right here, in Cooperstown, that day.

And now, 75 years later, I stand in front of an institution that has grown from a “one-room museum” to an iconic site that has made an indelible mark on this region and all of baseball.

I am very proud of my grandfather, Stephen C. Clark.

He was born in Cooperstown, was the visionary for the creation of the National Baseball Hall of Fame & Museum – the very first sports hall of fame in the world – and its first president. Many of the museum’s first collections of baseball artifacts

This portrait of Stephen C. Clark hangs in the entryway to the Hall of Plaques, the centerpiece of the institution he founded.

were donated by him to the museum, including the iconic Abner Doubleday baseball.

And the museum’s collections have continued to grow – bats, balls, gloves, uniforms, trophies.

Three million library items – recorded media, photographs, clip files, our collections and archives are incredibly substantial. We are base-

ball’s version of the Smithsonian and Library of Congress, all in one.

This museum began as a one-room gallery of plaques and mementos.

Is is now a state of the art, 50,000square-foot internationally renowned history museum.

As baseball has unfolded, the Hall of Fame has been with it every step of the way, to document it and use it as a lens to show how America has grown up through the decades. From 26 electees in 1939, there are today 306 Hall of Fame members: • 211 Major League players • 28 executives • 22 managers • 10 umpires • and 35 Negro League Legends, including the only female Hall of Fame member, Effa Manley.

Only 1 percent of those who have ever played the game have a plaque in this room ... only 1 percent of 18,000 Major League players.

Earning election to the Hall of Fame is difficult, and has been done differently by each one. But there are four things that tie them together in history: • excellence over a career • a strong sense of character • integrity • and sportsmanship in respecting the game on the field.

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BOUND VOLUMES Compiled by Tom Heitz with resources courtesy of The New York State Historical Association Library

200 YEARS AGO

The arrival of the white flag of France in our port (New York), after an absence of upwards of twenty years, is a great novelty in maritime occurrences, and may perhaps be viewed as the forerunner of a new era in our commercial history. The Olive Tree may prove the olive branch of peace, the promise of rest and cessation to the troubled waters of the world. The revival of the ancient regime, or old system of trade under the French monarchy, however, is not speedily to be expected. The arbiters of national affairs in Paris are to determine on that point. We must take what they give. And fortunately for us, as their wants are precisely the same as ours, it may very possibly happen, that in securing rights to themselves they will obtain for us more than we could readily anticipate from our own exertions.

The times are pregnant with great events for us.

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100 YEARS AGO

ball Leagues Headquarters at Cooper Inn for all league representatives. At 10:45 a.m. the baseball library sponsored by the National Association, and which has been collected under the supervision of George M. Trautman, chairman of the executive committee, will be presented to the baseball museum. At the same time, a bronze tablet, commemorating the founding of the National Association will be presented.

(Ed. Note: The presentation of the library collection marks the formal beginning of what became known as the National Baseball Library & Archive as a part of the museum.)

June 21, 1939

50 YEARS AGO

Karl E. Hill of Syracuse will open a new discount store in Cooperstown on June 25 to be known as the Farm & Home Bargain Center. It will occupy the building on Main Street which formerly housed the Grand Union store. The opening of the new store will fulfill a dream of long standing for Mr. Hill, a native of Germany who came to this country with his family as a small boy. The first book in the English language which he read was James Fenimore Cooper’s “Last of the Mohicans,” and ever since the Cooperstown area has held a special place in his heart. The store will be managed by his son Eric P. Hill.

June 17, 1964

175 YEARS AGO

Resolution of the Otsego Presbytery at its semi-annual meeting held in Westford, June 10, 1839: “Resolved, That we, as a Presbytery, deem it the imperative duty of every minister of the gospel to raise his voice in vindication of the rights of the oppressed, and to exert his ministerial influence to do away the enormous sin of slavery; and that those ministers who refuse, by their silence or evasion, to present the claims of the oppressed, either in their pulpits, or on some other suitable occasion, in our opinion suppress important gospel truths, which are imperiously needed by the exigencies of the times.”

June 17, 1839

25 YEARS AGO

Leatherstocking Corporation has entered into a contract for the purchase of the Glen Avenue Masi-Soule property including the Glen Garage building. The total acreage involved is just over three acres with 481 feet of frontage on upper Main Street and 328 feet of frontage on State Hwy. 28. It is zoned for commercial use. In 1987, the Masi-Soule partnership had proposed building a 41-unit town house development but the project was abandoned after concerns were raised about population density, water supply, sewer systems and traffic flow. (Ed. note: The property is now the site of a peripheral parking lot. A banking institution occupies the former Glen Garage building) June 21, 1989

150 YEARS AGO

A Disappointment – On the evening of Thursday last, the “big gun” was brought out and a salute fired near the village. Eager for news from the army, the people gathered around the telegraph office, or stopped each other in the street, hopefully inquiring, “Has Grant defeated Lee?’ “Is Richmond captured?” “Have we achieved a victory?” At first no one seemed to know what the firing meant. And, when finally it was stated that a few office-holders and others were firing a salute over the re-nomination of Mr. Lincoln, a feeling of disappointment and sadness came over the people. There was no hilarity, even among Republicans.

June 17, 1864

125 YEARS AGO

The laying of the Corner Stone of the new Baptist Church on the old site on Elm Street took place on Thursday afternoon of last week in the presence of a large congregation of people of different denominations. The services occupied only an hour, and gave evident pleasure and satisfaction to those present. Mr. McHarg, the Presbyterian pastor, spoke about 15 minutes in his usual impressive manner, and Mr. Boardman, the Baptist pastor, following in remarks not more extended, and in the most-happy vein. Among many

June 17, 1914 articles placed in the Corner Stone were a complete list of officers and members of the church; a photograph of the old church and Chapel, contributed by Mr. W.G. Smith; a copy of a booklet titled “Cooperstown on Otsego Lake,” contributed by Mr. S.J.W. Reynolds; a pamphlet titled “The Lord’s Supper” by Rev. S. T. Livermore, a former Pastor; also the personal and business cards of a number of firms and residents of Cooperstown.

June 21, 1889

75 YEARS AGO

Plans are complete for National Association Day at the nation’s shrine of baseball in Cooperstown on Sunday, July 9th. Between the hours of 8 and 10:30 a.m. registration will take place at the National Association of Professional Base-

10 YEARS AGO

The 2004 Cooperstown Youth Baseball All-Star Tournament Team was announced on Tuesday by the league. The team will be managed by Bruce Brodersen. Mike Millea, Randy Reckeweg and Mark Davine will coach. Team members include Greg Brodersen, Mackenzie Curran, Ryan Davine, Tim Feik, Kyle Liner, Scott Millea, Tanner Niedzialkowski, Matt Orenstein, Chad Parshall, Ryan Parshall, Andrew Pink-Burton, and Matthew Pink-Burton. A tournament for six local teams will take place on June 24-26 and a 12-team District Tournament is scheduled for July 3 at Beanie Ainslie field.

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July 21 – 25 • Camps’ Got Talent (MOST Museum in Albany)

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July 28 – August 1 • Don’t Forget Your Passport (Binghamton Discovery Center)

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August 4 – 8 • “The Y World of Sports” (Skate Estate)

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THURSDAY, JUNE 19, 2014

Babe’s Descendant Lives Baseball Life

MLB FILM CREW SETS UP IN FRONT OF 25 MAIN As if there wasn’t enough excitement in recent days at the Baseball Hall of Fame, a film crew from the MLB Network closed off Main Street in front of the Hall Sunday, June 15, to film the opening credits of a special the network is planning to air in connection with the 75th anniversary of the first Induction.

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Stevens said Friday, June 13, after attending the opening of “Babe Ruth: His Life and Legend,� at the Baseball Hall of Fame. The occasion was the 75th anniversary celebration of the first Induction, but it was also the 100th anniversary of the Great Bambino’s entry into the major leagues.

Ruth – along with Ty Cobb, Walter Johnson, Christy Mathewson and Honus Wagner – was a member of the first class of inductees into Hall of Fame in 1937. The new exhibit expands space already dedicated to baseball’s most revered legend and highlights the star’s ascent in and exit from the world of baseball.

In the exhibit, Ruth’s story – an American hero’s rise to greatness from poverty – is told through news clippings, baseball cards and posters affixed scrapbookstyle to the walls. It is interspersed with encased bats, balls, uniforms, equipment, and other memorabilia, including a ticket to the 1932 World Series game where Ruth purportedly pointed to centerfield on a 2-2 count

before knocking a homer over the centerfield fence.

This prehit gesture is known in baseball lingo as Stevens “the called shot.�

Videos help viewers experience Ruth’s life both on and off the ball field.

Particularly compelling is the clip of Ruth’s farewell to baseball in which a movie camera catches The Sultan of Swat in a position identical to Nat Fein’s iconic, Pulitzer Prize-winning photo, “The Babe Bows Out.�

In both formats, the once robust Babe, now visibly frail, back turned to the camera, ball cap in his left hand, supporting himself with his right by leaning on a bat retrieved impromptu from HoF Yankees pitcher Bob Feller, bids good-bye to a Yankee Stadium crowd of nearly 50,000.

Coincidentally, June 13 marked the 66th anniversary of Ruth’s farewell appearance.

In an interview after she

toured the exhibit, Stevens said she was genuinely pleased. “It’s a terrific way to keep his memory alive through the generations. My family really appreciates all the hard work to make the exhibit possible. It’s important to us,� she said.

Stevens has her own role in perpetuating her ancestor’s legacy. She is involved with other family members in the management of www. baberuthcentral, which contains biography, statistics, fan stories, videos, audio interviews, photos, and special section for kids, who so famously adored Ruth.

Perusing the exhibit, Amanda – for the first time – saw a photo of her greatgrandmother Claire Merritt Hodgson Ruth with George Herman “Babe� Ruth on their April 17, 1929, wedding day. Claire was Ruth’s second wife and remained married to him until his death in 1948. Claire Ruth died in 1976. “I hadn’t seen that picture before. Family photos are what I’m most passionate about,� Stevens said. Perhaps it was her lucky day, too.

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THURSDAY, JUNE 19, 2014

THE FREEMAN’S JOURNAL A-7

Cooperstown Chamber Names Executive, Likely Candidate For Permanent Status

HAZZARD, From A1 here, and the real-world experience to lead the chamber to bigger and greater things,” said Meifert, who is also vice president/development at the Baseball Hall of Fame.

Remarking on President Obama’s visit last month and the Fodor’s Travel ranking of Cooperstown as the eighth best small town to live in nationally, Hazzard said, “There’s a lot of good opportunity to piggyback on.”

He replaces Pat Szarpa, executive director since April 2012, who had resigned the Tuesday before.

A CCS graduate, Hazzard received a bachelor’s from SUNY Cortland in business economics and sports management, where he played basketball and base-

ball. During college, he served as a programming and education intern at the Hall of Fame in 2003.

Matt After Hazzard graduation, he served a two-year fellowship with the United States Golf Association. (Monday the 16th, he’d completed a round of the Leatherstocking Golf Course with a 73.)

Hazzard then joined the Major League Baseball Players Alumni Association as the director of memorabilia for Major League Alumni Marketing, the MLBPAA’s for-profit subsidiary. During his eight -year tenure, gross revenue for this new business venture grew to more than $3 million.

He and wife Stephanie, who is Hall of Fame

education director, live in Cooperstown with their son, Paxton. His parents are Ed and Patricia Hazzard, who have won the Clark Sports Center’s Fetterman Award for their involvement with youth.

“As a native of Cooperstown,” Hazzard said in the chamber press release, “I am honored to take on this role. I have worked with many other chambers throughout the country in my previous positions and understand the positive impact they can have on a community. I truly look forward to working hand-inhand with all business owners to not only help them achieve their own goals, but also those of our entire community,” he said.

“The board looks forward to working with Matt, as he leads our efforts during this transition to support member businesses and our local economy overall,” Meifert.

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If received, the grant “will cover a lot of the less glamorous things: insulation, electrical work, painting, window work, sidewalk work,” said Katz. “It will improve some accessibility internally, but this grant is not for the major accessibility issue we talked about at the Fair Street entrance.”

In December 2012, a CFA grant enable work to begin on the $2 million sidewalk replacement now under way.

Katz said Trustee Cindy Falk, who prepared the application, had identified the state Environmental Protection Fund, which includes historic preservation, as a potential source of funding for the 1898 federal-style structure, built by the Clark family to house the library, YMCA and museum. Robert Sterling Clark donated it to the village in 1932.

Four years ago, Lou Allstadt, now a village trustee and a neighbor to Village Hall, became interested in the structure’s renovation and formed the Friends of 22 Main. As a trustee, he had to step aside from the Friends, but has been able to move his interest forward as chairman of the Village Board’s buildings committee.

The village has contracted with Holmes-King-Kallquist, a Syracuse architectural firm, which developed a plan that identified the Fair Street entrance in a way that resolves handicapped-access challenges for the whole building. A glassed-in foyer would include an elevator, an entry point to the two upper floors as well as the basement.

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