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Jeff Katz, the first mayor in a while who is both a fan of

Cooperstown and of base-ball, spent his first few years in Brooklyn, where it was all about the Mets. “In 1969, when they won the World Series, I was 7. It was huge,” he remembers.

He adored Tom Seaver, who led their team to the pin-nacle. “When they traded him in 1977, I was

heartbroken,” said Katz. “I realized I loved Tom Seaver much more than I did the Mets. That broke the spell of rooting for a team.

“I became very much on the side of the players – because of Seaver. People tend to blame everybody

equally” – the players, the own-ers. “That’s not exactly true when you get into the weeds.”

That sympathy informs “Split Season: 1981: Fernandomania, the Bronx Zoo, and the Strike that Saved Baseball,” published in May. Kirkus called it a

Please SeeKATZ, A7

Jeff Katz is fan, mayor and base-ball writer.

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The Freeman’s JournalMatt Birch, a member of the Clark Founda-tion team preparing the sports center field for the Sunday, July 25, Induction, examines se-curing barricades being set up Tuesday, July 21.

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INSTANT IMAGES: Inductee Randy Johnson, an avid photographer, will be distributing photos of his experiences this weekend via Instagram.

ON MLB.COM: The Induction Ceremony will be transmitted live on the MLB Network to 70 million homes nationwide.

Howard C. Talbot, Jr.HoF Director, 1976-93

Director WitnessedHall’s 1st Induction

By LIBBY CUDMORE

COOPERSTOWN

When Cooperstown Mayor Jeff Katz was 14, he sent a letter to the Baseball Hall of Fame, demanding the induction of Dodg-

ers first baseman Gil Hodges. Hodges still isn’t in the hallowed halls, but Katz

did get a letter back. “I saw Howard Talbot’s name on the masthead, and that name stuck with me,” he said. “Thirty years later, I’m on the village’s Doubleday Field Committee, and there he was, Howard Talbot from my Hall of Fame letter!”

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Volume 207, No. 29 Cooperstown, New York, Thursday, July 23, 2015 Newsstand Price $1

Senators SeekLocal ReactionTo New RulesCOOPERSTOWN

State Sen. Jim Seward, R-Milford, planned to solicit local input on

the state takeover of Medic-aid non-emergency medical transportation at 11 a.m. Wednesday, July 22, in a ses-sion at the Village Library of Cooperstown.

State Sen. Tom O’Mara, R-Big Flats, will join him.

Local leaders will share their their experience with the state’s Medicaid strategy.

HARTWICK HISTORY: The Hartwick Historical Society will celebrate the Arcadia Press’ publication of “Around Hartwick,” a photo history of the town, with an open house Saturday, Aug. 1, at the Kinney Memorial Library. Public welcome.

BASEBALL RAFFLE: The Cooperstown Rotary Foundation is once again selling 100 raffle tickets, $50 each, on a special collection of 10 autographed baseballs in two wooden display cases. Tickets available Hall of Fame Weekend at the club’s tend in Pioneer Park.

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The City of Oneonta’s experiment in profession-al municipal management hit another bump in the street in recent days, as Common Council

moved to fire a manager for the second time in 14 months.

During a strained meeting, Council members voted 5-2, with one ab-stention, Friday, July 17, to suspend Martin Murphy, the former Cortland county manager, the first step in his firing.

No reasons for the move were given, although this spring city work-ers had expressed their dissatisfaction with Murphy by attending Common Council meetings en masse and main-taining silent vigil.

Voters in Otsego County’s only city voted by an 80-20 margin in November 2011 to approve a new charter developed by a Council-appointed commis-sion that created the city manager position, and the charter went into effect on Jan. 1, 2012.

The first city manager, Mike Long, who was city manager in Poughkeepsie, joined City Hall that September, but he was fired in May 2014. Murphy succeeded him that Oct. 1, only 10 months ago.

Four of the current eight Council members are not running again in this fall’s elections, and one is be-ing challenged, so the sole mayoral candidate, Gary Herzig (his wife, Connie, is athletic director at CCS elementary), asked for a delay in recruiting a new manager until the new Council takes office.

The Village of Cooperstown had a professional manager for a period during the 1990s, when then-mayor Jim Woolson wanted someone to handle day-to-day issues.

The original manager was replaced by Giles Rus-sell, then a trustee, who stepped down after suffering a heart attack in 1999. He was not replaced.

Carol B. Waller, mayor in the first decade of this century, said she found a capable village clerk, Teri Barown, was sufficient to stay ahead of administra-tive issues.

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Murphy

A fundraising effort is underway in Mamaroneck to save the Delancey house, where James Fenimore Cooper was inspired to begin writing. It was moved from its original site on Heathcote Hill, left, to the village’s downtown, right.

Development ThreatensCooper-Delancey Home

Mamaroneck History Society Aims To Save It

Ian Austin/The Freeman’s JournalCarol Akin, who summers on Otsego Lake, is active in the fund drive to save the home of Cooper’s inlaws.

By LIBBY CUDMORE

COOPERSTOWN

One night around 1820, the story goes, James Fenimore Cooper gathered his family in the living room of the child-

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“Supposedly, he threw it down and said, ‘I could write a better book than this’!” said Carol Akin, who winters in Mamaroneck and summers on Otsego Lake. “So his wife said, ‘Why don’t you?’”

Soon after, still at the home of his inlaws – the Delanceys were one of the most influ-ential families of early New York State – he began writing “Precaution,” a tale of manners influenced by Jane Austin’s “Pride and Preju-dice.” It is also at the Mamaroneck home that he wrote “The Spy,” influenced by his friend John Jay’s Revolutionary War tales from nearby Rye.

A font of literary history, indeed.Please See HOUSE, A9

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He then filtered the hot mixture and measured the color with a photometer (available from $39.95 online).

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By measuring their maltsPlease See DIRECTOR, A9

Ian Austin/The Freeman’s JournalAaron MacLeod tests a libation in the making at Hartwick College’s Center for Craft Food & Bever-ages, where he is the new director.

1st Director Arrives At Hartwick’s Craft Food, Beverage Center

The Freeman’s JournalScott Sanford, left, controls the curbside flow of asphalt as the village crew completes paving the first block of Delaware Street Monday afternoon, July 20. So far this sea-son, Pine Boulevard, Main Street west of the Susquehanna, and Cooper Lane have been among streets repaved in the village.

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PerspectivesEDITORIAL

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LETTERS

‘I prefer Shakespeare to all dramatists,” wrote Guiseppe

Verdi. Verdi knew the plays intimately, and that knowl-edge suffuses three of his greatest operas.

“Macbeth,” Verdi’s 10th opera, was his first attempt to translate Shakespeare and a success from its earliest days. The opera is remark-ably true to the original, but one of the most dramatic changes is evident even before the curtain goes up on this new production by the Glimmerglass Festival: Verdi departed from the Bard by expanding the three witches into a large chorus.

Director Anne Bogart goes further: instead of bearded crones, these are simply women, dowdy, prim housekeepers, maids, chars, who escape a downtrod-den existence with gossip, suggestion and malicious mischief. They sedately epitomize the banality of evil. Their suggestion to Macbeth that he could be-come King of Scotland sets the slaughter in motion.

This new production takes place in the 1930s, the default setting for the rise of bloody despots but effective here, with a clever stage de-vice that swings from elite elegance to a multipurpose fascist façade.

Eric Owens is making

his role debut as Macbeth and he is superb, physically and vocally imposing as the heroic general with an uncertain moral compass. Melody Moore, a spec-tacular Lady Macbeth, more than matches her spouse, overcoming his qualms with nerves of steel and a voice of furious power throughout a remarkable range. Bass Soloman Howard is short-lived as Banquo, but has a dramatic aria heavy with foreboding.

Verdi made abundant use of the chorus, particularly in his early operas, and “Mac-beth” is replete with choral

opportunities, beautifully sung by the Glimmerglass Young Artists. Besides the witches, there are several soldiers’ choruses and an assassins’ chorus – “Trem-ble, Banquo!” – that might almost be a parody if it were not genuinely sinister. The chorus of refugees, “Oppressed Country,” near the end is heartbreak-ing as Scots try to flee the violence, a scene that might have been ripped from today’s headlines. These choruses illuminate one of Shakespeare’s darkest dramas, bringing color to a tragedy that can be all too

monochromatic. Conductor Joseph Col-

aneri has a special rapport with Verdi and manages the sizeable musical forces to perfection; when he is on the podium, the orchestra is at its best. The musicians perform with utter confi-dence, making possible vig-orous tempi that will make you impatient with other interpretations and keep the opera hurtling to its tragic finale.

Late in the second act, our hopes are raised by Malcolm (Marco D. Cam-marota), the true heir to the throne, and Macduff (Mi-chael Brandenburg), whose family has been killed by Macbeth. These fine tenors rally the troops and over-come the tyrant, who has one final aria before his death. The opera, like the play, ends with a somber Hymn of Victory.

Verdi wrote, “This trag-edy is one of the greatest creations of man…if we can’t make something great out of it, let us at least try to do something out of the ordinary.” In that, Verdi and Glimmerglass have suc-ceeded.

Pat Thorpe is reviewing this season’s Glimmerglass

Festival operas for The Freeman’s Journal & Home-

town Oneonta

To the Editor:Last night, we saw what I think was

the most faithful rendition of “The Magic Flute” that I have ever seen. In this, I was not alone, the audiences’ response was overwhelmingly enthu-siastic – a hearty “bravo” at the end of every aria, leaping to their feet in applause at the end.

But evidently, some people don’t really understand what the “Flute” is all about. They missed the German, or they missed the references to Masonry – in short, they missed what they had come to expect of an ossified “Flute” in their own provincial way.

“Die Zauberflöte” was written in German as a SingSpiel – a comic work with spoken dialogue and dancing – more like a modern musical than a “modern” opera. Had Mozart intended

“Die Zauberflöte” to be an opera buffa, the libretto would have been in Italian, with no spoken dialogue, no dancing etc. Performed in an artisti-cally faithful fashion – “The Magic Flute “is the Grossvater of musical comedies. Francesca understands this and so did the audience.

At times, I missed the German a bit too. But that did not detract. The Glimmerglass (SchimmerGlas) audi-ence does not speak High Viennese German and the jokes don’t work as well when read in SuperTitles. This English production is wholly faithful to the composer’s purpose. And a fine translation it was! See if you get the joke about the Monarch(s).

“Die Zauberflöte” was written at the apogee of the Enlightenment, when most of the Protestant intelligentsia

were Masons, as was, of course, Mo-zart. So the gnostic wisdom referred to in the original libretto was Masonry, and the setting was Egypt, the Mason’s mother lode of imagery.

Since Masonry is no longer consid-ered gnostic wisdom by the intelligen-tsia, it is not inappropriate to dispense with Masonic symbols, provided you keep the underlying sentiment – which Francesca does with this “Flute”: wherein love, truth, intelligence and the Super Ego triumph over stupidity, superstition and bigotry – and have fun doing it.

Every age needs a good “Flute” and this one is accessible to all ages.

Tex sez check it out – and tell a friend that likes a rousing good show.

CHIP NORTHRUPCooperstown

Karli Cadel/The Glimmerglass Festival Banquo’s ghost (Soloman Howard) returns to ter-rify Macbeth (Eric Owens) in Verdi’s “Macbeth” at the Glimmerglass Festival. Lady Macbeth is Melody Moore.

Glimmerglass Produces Good ‘Magic Flute’ For Our Age

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Big Choruses Add To Leads’ Prowess In ‘Macbeth’

In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.

On the sixth day, he created man and woman. Tempted by a serpent in the Garden of Eden established for their happiness, they ate fruit from the Tree of Life, gaining the knowledge of good and evil. A perfect world was no more.

And so mankind was banished from the Garden of Eden, for Adam – and these days, Eve – to earn a living from the sweat of his or her brow.

Certainly, it’s the guiding story of Western Civilization, and there are versions of it in non-Western religions, too.

Even today, many believe the Garden was an actual place, in modern-day Iraq between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. Even those who don’t believe in Eden’s earthly reality recognize that sin exists – lust, greed, anger, pride and the rest – and embrace the hope of salvation, terrestrial or otherwise, for a return to Eden.

The creation story resonates with everyone because it’s true, even if Eden isn’t.

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This is brought to mind while researching this edition’s front-page article on “Baseball’s May-or,” and running across how Jeff Katz described Abner Doubleday’s invention of baseball to the New York Times last year: “It’s an ori-gin story that’s a myth. But we’re such a perfect setting for that myth. Baseball wasn’t invented here. But it should have been.”

That Doubleday took a branch from the Tree of Baseball and, in a pasture behind today’s Key Bank building in downtown

Cooperstown, created the National Pastime has been shown to be fac-tually without basis. (The story’s originator, Abner Graves, died in an insane asylum.)

But it’s nonetheless true that baseball represented – and rep-resents – a national aspiration, a hope that challenges, if conquered through hard work and discipline, would bring salvation in the form of happiness and success.

Cooperstown, alongside James Fenimore Cooper’s unspoiled Glimmerglass (slightly less so today), was the American Eden, repository of small-town values, of dear hearts and friendly people, from which humankind goes forth to Horatio-Alger-like heights.

That Doubleday, who later fired the first shot at Fort Sum-ter in defense of the Union and rose to a generalship during the Civil War, probably never visited Cooperstown matters not at all.

You can see why the Mills Commission embraced Abner Graves’ recollections and in 1907 declared today’s Doubleday Field the place where baseball was invented. It was a perfect setting then. And it’s still pretty good to-

day, as anyone can see in the faces of tens of thousands of fans who will visit this weekend, many for the first time.

Keepers of the myth kept the flame alive for decades before the literalists debunked it. But, in reality, the National Pastime we revere today emerged, not from some Medieval Polish game of rounders, but from a concept much like the Cooperstown of imagination.

Myths live, because we need them to.

•In recent days, we’ve seen the

fall from grace play out in Otsego County’s only city, Oneonta, where two years ago the promise of salvation – a shining city in the Oyaron Hill vicinity – seemed a possibility in declining Upstate New York.

A savior – in the unlikely figure of a 60-something retired college president turned mayor – was going to revive its commercial energy, to reenergize its downtown and neighborhoods, to keep its young from heading east of Eden (and attract new ones), and to rein-vent the City of the Hills as a hub

of arts and knowledge.Mayor Dick Miller abruptly left

the scene last October, and thorns and thistles quickly emerged. The acrimony evident as a Common Council cabal moved to fire a second city manager in 14 months was saddening indeed, evident in how quickly things can fall apart.

But four of the eight Council members are leaving office at year’s end. A fifth is facing a chal-lenge in the November elections. There may be hope again for mu-nicipal salvation. And a sensible individual is, so far, unopposed for mayor. (Independent petitions may be filed until Aug. 7.)

That individual, Gary Herzig, who has spent a career helping the less fortunate through the Job Corps and OFO, expressed disap-pointment at a Common Council in tumult. But, he added, “It’s time to look forward. We have a strong slate of candidates. We have capable people in City Hall. Oneonta is going to be in good hands.”

The Miller Myth lives, as do the Doubleday and Creation ones. And we can embrace them as we strive toward our personal Edens.

‘Myths’ Capture Inspiration We Need To Move Forward

To the Editor:On Friday evening, July

17, we witnessed the worst miscarriage of justice in the City of Oneonta in the 49 years we have been mem-bers of the community.

The proposal before the Common Council was to dismiss City Manager Martin Murphy. The lay community may not have all the information to make that decision; however, we do have the ability to note when all the rules of fair play have been abandoned.

First of all, Mike Lynch, Maureen Hennessy, Mado-lyn Palmer, Larry Malone and Acting Mayor Southard voted that there would be no opinions voiced from any persons outside of the coun-cil. The gallery was filled to capacity with taxpayers, and there was standing room only.

Many wished to speak. Since when has denying free speech in a government setting been a part of the American way? What were these Council people afraid to hear? We have never been in an open session in which voices have been denied. Those of you who voted to

suppress comments should be ashamed to be part of city government.

We were thankful to the three Council members, Dave Rissberger, Bob Brzo-zowski and Chip Holmes, who spoke up to tell us that what was happening was no more than a kangaroo court: Martin Murphy’s 360-de-gree review was bogus; it was a set up.

We were told that Mr. Murphy had never been given any goals or guide-lines but was being judged anyway. He was dismissed without due process; he never even had an opportu-nity to defend himself. We wondered if Mike Lynch would have let that hap-pen to any of the people he represents in his union.

We also wondered what other ulterior motives may have been behind the cam-paign to fire Mr. Murphy since he is the second city manager to be discharged in less than a year. Is the majority of the Council unwilling to work with any city manager at all despite the wishes of the voters who approved the City Char-

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BOUND VOLUMESCompiled by Tom HeiTz with resources courtesy of The New York State Historical Association Library

150 YEARS AGO

July 21, 1865

200 YEARS AGOAdvertisement: Stray Mare: Strayed from the Subscriber

on the 8th of June last, a Dark Brown Mare, with a white star in her forehead; rather below middling size; some in years; hard built, and every way sound when she went away. Any person who has taken up such Mare, or can give information of her to the Subscriber, by letter or otherwise, shall be handsomely rewarded by him. Nijah Griffith, Lau-rens, Otsego County, July 12, 1815.

July 20, 1815

175 YEARS AGOTemperance Notice – The adjourned meeting of the

Otsego County Temperance Society will be holden at the Baptist Meeting House in Cooperstown on Tuesday, the 30th inst., at one o’clock, p.m. All who feel an interest in the cause are especially requested to attend. J.M. PEAK, Sec’y. Ed. Note: News that a new continent had been discov-ered at the Earth’s South Pole in January 1840 reached Cooperstown in July. “Letters have been received dated at Sydney, N.S.W. (Australia) March 12, 1840, announcing the discovery of a vast continent in the Antarctic regions, far more extensive than the discovery, lately announced by the French Exploring Expedition. The United States Vin-cennes, under the command of Charles Wilkes, Esq., has been absent from this port eighty days, most of which time has been spent in southern exploration. The land was first seen on the morning of the 19th of January in latitude 64 deg. 20 min. south longitude, 154 deg. 18 min. east. The Vincennes ran down the coast from the 154 deg. 18 min. to 97 deg. 45 min. east longitude, about 1,700 miles, within a short distance of the land, often so near as to get sound-ings with a few fathoms of line, during which time she was constantly surrounded by ice islands and bergs, and experi-enced many heavy gales of wind, exposing her constantly to shipwreck.”

July 20, 1840

125 YEARS AGOWhen it was last week announced that Dr. John G. Wight

had tendered his resignation as Principal of Cooperstown Union School and Academy, to accept the Principal’s posi-tion at the noted high school in Worcester, Massachusetts, with a salary of $3,000 a year, it was received with mingled feelings of regret and pride – regret that we must part with so useful and valued a citizen, but pride in his deserved pro-motion. As a leading and successful educator, Dr. Wight has achieved a prominent position in the state; he has endeared himself to scores of young people who have graduated from Cooperstown Union School, and have done credit to their alma mater; and to Dr. Wight’s faithful labors, the school is most largely indebted for its success and standing.

July 25, 1890

100 YEARS AGOAt the afternoon session of the Chautauqua Thursday,

the question of Woman’s Suffrage was debated, Miss Helen Todd of California appearing for suffrage and Miss Lucy Price of Ohio opposed. Thirty-five members of the Cooperstown Equal Suffrage Club occupied reserved seats in the center and were generous in their applause of their champion. About the tent was a liberal sprinkling of women and men who thought otherwise and hesitated not to extend applause to Miss Price. Miss Todd presented a forceful ar-gument and cited results in suffrage states, while Miss Price made a logical and well-sustained plea that political activ-ity is not essential to being a potent factor in promoting the welfare and advancement of society.

July 21, 1915

75 YEARS AGOA Grand Champion Prize and ribbons for winners of first,

second and third places in 15 classes are offered competi-tors in the Pet Dog Show to be held Sunday afternoon, July 28 at 3 o’clock at Fernleigh Over, Cooperstown. The proceeds will be turned over to the Otsego County Society

for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. Miss Jean Hoyt is Chairman of the committee. The judging classes are as follows: Smallest dog; Largest dog; Fattest dog; Dog with Most Impressive Eyes; Dog showing the Best Care; Dog shown by Girl or Boy Under Age of 16; Dog with the Most Personality; Most Obedient Dog; Retrieving Dog; Tricks; Best Puppy under Six Months; Best All-Round Dog; Best Dog & Master Pair; Best Handling Dog; Championship Dog. All dogs winning first prize are eligible to compete for the championship.

July 24, 1940

50 YEARS AGOCampaign starts to preserve Hyde Hall – The future of

Hyde Hall, one of America’s great houses, is in the balance. Acquired by New York State in 1963 along with property for Glimmerglass State Park, Hyde Hall may be torn down as a liability hazard on park land – unless the state or the Friends of Hyde Hall, Inc. can find some way of preserving the distinguished landmark. Recently, a number of archi-tects and historians have expressed themselves vehemently about the necessity of saving Hyde Hall.

July 21, 1965

25 YEARS AGOA four-page questionnaire soliciting information and

requesting opinions on the recreational use of Otsego Lake is in circulation by the Joint Lake Committee of Otsego 2000 and the Otsego County Conservation Association. The questionnaire gathers information about the individual re-spondents and solicits their opinions and concerns about the lake. It has been mailed to the members of various groups associated with the lake. The committee is especially inter-ested in exploring the recreational capacity and frequency of use on Otsego Lake by individual respondents.

July 25, 1990

10 YEARS AGOGlimmerglass Opera announces the release of the world

premiere recording of Sir Richard Rodney Bennett’s “The Mines of Sulphur” by Chandos Records Ltd. On July 26, Glimmerglass’ critically-acclaimed production was the work’s American professional stage premiere, recorded live by Chandos in the company’s Alice Busch Opera Theatre during the 2004 season. The recording marks the first time Glimmerglass Opera has been featured on a com-mercially-produced recording. In other opera news, five Glimmerglass productions will be featured on National Public Radio’s “World of Opera” program in the months of July and August. Just over 2,500 tickets have been sold for the August 11th Beach Boys/Herman’s Hermits concert at Doubleday Field, about one-fourth of the available seating.

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With 1,844 runs scored in his career with the Houston Astros, Craig Biggio is used to covering all the

bases.But now, rather than stepping up to the

plate, he will step up to the podium at the Hall of Fame Induction at 1:30 p.m. Sunday, July 26, in a field next to the Clark Sports Center.

“I’m just trying to smooth my remarks out a little bit and I think we have all the bases covered,” he said. “There’s a lot of people that I’m very grateful for because I didn’t get to the Hall of Fame on my own. There’s a lot of people that helped me along the way.”

Biggio, the first Astro to be inducted, joins Arizona Diamondback Randy Johnson, Red Sox pitcher Pedro Martinez and Atlanta Braves pitcher John Smoltz as the Hall of Fame Class of 2015.

“The Hall of Fame is not anything that I ever envisioned in my life,” said Smoltz, who, with a record 200 wins and 150 saves, joins teammates Greg Maddux and Tom Glavine in the hall. “I’m blown away.”

With 3,060 hits to his record, Biggio played second base for the Astros from 1988 to 2007 and currently serves as an assistant to the team. He was first eligible for induc-tion in 2013, and finally got in on his third round.

With a fastball as fast as 102 mph, John-son struck out 4,875 batters, earning him five Cy Young awards over a career that included time with the Astros, the Yankees and the San Francisco Giants. While play-ing for the Arizona Diamondbacks in 2004, at 41, he was the oldest pitcher to throw a perfect game.

Now retired as a player, Johnson has returned to his passion for photography, and plans on bringing his camera with him on stage. “I will try to document a little bit with my camera and some short video leading up to induction day behind the scenes for my followers on Instagram, RJ51Photos.”

And with 3,154 strikeouts, Martinez joins Juan Marichal, Class of 1983, as the second Dominican to get into the hall. “We waited 32 years to actually see one other player be inducted into the Hall of Fame,” he said. “So between my family and me, we’re re-ally excited to actually go in and have this special moment.”

Awed By Odds, Inductees ‘Blown Away,’Grateful About Entering Hall Of Plaques

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KATZ/From A1“delightful, opinionated history… Katz bril-liantly describes the bitter, fruitless, yearlong negotiations aimed at determining a team’s com-pensation for the loss of a free agent player.”

Several years ago, Katz had self-published “The Kansas City A’s and the Wrong Half of the Yankees: How the Yankees Controlled Two of the Eight American League Franchises During the 1950s.” This is different: He placed “Split Season” with Thomas Dunne Books, a St. Martin’s Press (Macmillan) imprint, and that’s made a lot of difference.

“Split Season” has been more widely re-viewed, with the Chicago Tribune in his (for-merly) adopted hometown calling it one of the top baseball books of the year. “That was pretty huge,” said Katz. The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel included it on its 100 books “for your summer reading.”

More dramatically, Cooperstown’s – and arguably, baseball’s – mayor was embraced by the electronic media. Host Bill Littlefield interviewed him on NPR’s “It’s Only A Game.” Keith Olbermann invited him onto KO, his ESPN2 show, on June 1, for what turned out to be a friendly exchange. A week later, he spent an hour with other guests on Brian Kenny’s “MLB Now” in the MLB Network.

Katz, of course, discusses his book, but he also promotes his (currently) adopted hometown. “I acknowledge the Hall as the big dog, but I mention the art museum, The Farmers’ Museum and Ommegang. You can get a lot in a short soundbite.” He continues, “People are fascinated by Cooperstown. There’s a pent-up love for Cooperstown. They all want to be connected.”

When Jeff Katz talks about his life, it almost seems inevitable that he ended up here.

He made his first trip to the Hall of Fame in 1973, age 11. “I came up for the day. It was incredible. I don’t recall going anywhere but the Hall,” he said.

Going to Binghamton University in the early ’80s gave him the opportunity to visit at least once a year. After 3-4 hours in 25 Main, he’d grab a slice a Sal’s, stop by Doubleday Field, “just to look at it,” then go back into the museum. At day’s end, he’d treat himself with a stop at Schneider’s Bakery.

A few months after meeting his future wife, Karen, he brought her up here as well. “Let’s go to the lake and have lunch,” she suggested, and Katz began to appreciate Cooperstown’s wider offerings. “I love the arts. I love music,” said the mayor, who is also Cooperstown Concert As-sociation president. “It’s not hollow boosterism to say, The Fenimore is a great place, the opera.”

Married, Katz became a floor trader at The Merc, the couple moved to the Chicago suburbs and soon were raising three sons, Nate, Rob and Joe.

After a few years, Nate, who is autistic, was heading toward high school. “He had been doing real well,” said his father. “But the high school he was heading to would have been huge. We were getting bad vibes.”

Jeff and Karen began to think about mov-ing to a smaller town and, just naturally, Cooperstown came to mind. All five Katzes visited and, in January 2003, the family bought their future home on Chestnut Street.

They stopped by Cooperstown Elementary

School, where Principal Theresa Gorman “was so great, and warm and sweet: ‘Whatever he needs.’ We just fell in love with the place.”

The family returned in February for a long weekend, undeterred by snow piled high. “As we drove home, we said to each other, ‘Why not?’ The first week in April, I quit my job. We sold the house and we were here by June.”

And they’ve never looked back. The boys took to the schools, and Karen was involved in parent organizations. Nate is an artist, with an exhibit this summer at The View gallery in Old Forge. He and Robbie are out of college, and Joey is mid way through his sophomore year.

Dad traded for a while from a small office at 21 Railroad Ave., but “it was a little solitary.” He still trades a bit from home.

And, of course, there’s politics. He put together a Democratic coalition that took control of the Village Board in 2011 and has been pressing an energetic change agenda since, from silencing the noon whistle, to implementing paid parking in the downtown, which is fund-ing extensive and sometimes controversial Main Street upgrades. (A sidewalk project took down 41 trees.)

Cooperstown politics, though, has brought him back to his first love, baseball, and he’s still in awe of how far he’s come from that young fan in Brooklyn to a player in some of the National Pastime’s key issues.

One goal of the next few years is to renovate aging Doubleday Field by its centennial in 2019.

As a trustee, Mayor Carol B. Waller ap-pointed him to the Doubleday Field Committee, and he found himself sitting across the table from Hall of Famer Brooks Robinson, as well as HoF President Jeff Idelson, planning the annual Father’s Day “Classic” that replaced the Hall of Fame Game. “I kept saying to myself, that’s Brooks Robinson. He’s just 3 feet away from me. Keep it together,” said Katz.

Twenty-five years ago, he drove up to Mil-waukee to see Robin Yount make his 1,000th hit. (He didn’t make it.) “Twenty-five years later, I’m introduced to Robin Yount at a party.”

Then, last year, he met Tom Seaver and his wife, Nancy. “They were the New York sports couple of the 1970s. He was everything I dreamed he’d be – smart, thoughtful.”

And, of course, he told Seaver that story, about how the 1977 trade transformed the way he interacted with the game, and led to a book that’s causing some rethinking of the player-owner dynamic.

“And now, I’m mayor of Cooperstown,” said Katz. “It’s all part of an amazing thing.”

TALBOT/From A1Howard Chase Talbot,

Jr., retired National Baseball Hall of Fame director from 1976-1993 – the equivalent at the time of today’s president – passed away with his family by his side Saturday evening, July 18, 2015, at Bassett Hos-pital. He was 89.

Born Oct. 6, 1925, in New Berlin, Howard was the son of Howard C. Talbot, Sr. and Gladys Jacobs Talbot.

Raised in Edmeston, “Juney,” as he was known to his parents, attended Edmeston Central School and later Manlius Military Academy. He spent many summers of his youth on the shores of Otsego Lake as an attendee and counselor of Camp Chenango. Howard would go on to share a lifelong enjoyment of the outdoors with his family and friends.

On Dec. 15, 1943, he was inducted into the Army, serving his country during World War II with the 426th Field Artillery Battalion. Upon receiving his honorable discharge from the Military on May 6, 1946, How-ard returned home and obtained a degree from the Utica School of Commerce.

On Sept. 11, 1948, Howard married the former Alice Losee in a ceremony at the Second Baptist Church of Edmeston. They met in a youth choir and their shared fondness of music continued throughout their marriage.

Soon after they wed, Howard and Alice moved to Cooperstown and made their home, raising their family on Pioneer Street. His role of “Sweetheart” or “Dear” to Alice, “Dad” or “Pappy” to his children, and “Grampy” to his granddaughter, Teresa, and great-granddaughter, Fiorenza, was the ultimate joy of his life.

In 1949, Howard joined the Leatherstocking Management Corp. in Cooperstown and served as an accountant in the Clark family’s offices until 1951, when he was named as-sistant to the director of the Na-tional Baseball Hall of Fame.

In 1976 he became director and served in this capacity until retiring in 1993. During his tenure as director, he super-vised a 52-member staff, made education his main focus, and oversaw three major expan-sion and renovation programs, including the enlargement of the Gallery of Plaques and National Baseball Archive and Library.

While at the Hall, Howard also served on the Foundation

Board of the Peter J. McGov-ern Little League Museum, and made many trips, often with his granddaughter, Teresa, to Williamsport, Pa. He also met

three sitting presidents of the United States, as well as many lumi-naries from the baseball world.

Always humble, he loved his work and felt it was a privilege

to share responsibility for one of the most important sports-related destinations in America. “The National Baseball Hall of Fame mourns the loss of Howard Talbot, whose leader-ship was instrumental in guid-ing the Museum in becoming the world class institution it is today,” said Hall of Fame Chairman Jane Forbes Clark. “He has always been an impor-tant part of our Village, and we will miss his wisdom and sense of humor.”

Howard was an active and dedicated member of the Cooperstown community. For several years he was a village trustee. He served as mayor in the early 1960s and was also on the Doubleday Field Commit-tee and the local Draft Board.

Since 1952 he was a member of the Rotary Club of Cooperstown and a Paul Harris Fellow. He was also a member of the Native Sons of Cooperstown, The Mohican Club, and the Clark F. Sim-mons American Legion Post No. 579 in Cooperstown. A Freemason, Howard was raised in Farmers Lodge No. 553, F. & A.M. in Edmeston on April 14, 1948, and a few years later affiliated with Otsego Lodge No. 138, F. & A.M. in Cooperstown.

He enjoyed volunteering at local festivals, serving Winter Carnival guests at the annual Baptist Church Soup & Chili Kitchen, and helping press apples for Cider Fest at the Fly Creek Cider Mill. Howard wel-comed hard work and was not afraid to get his hands dirty.

He maintained a beautiful home at 95 Pioneer St. for his family for 60 years. For over 20 years, he volunteered, often in the Gift Shop, at Bassett Hospital, where he came to know and be known by many people.

Howard never forgot his roots and enjoyed staying

active in the Edmeston com-munity as well. He served as chair of the Pathfinder Village Foundation Board of Trustees in 1991-1995. Following in the footsteps of his father and grandfather, Howard was the third generation of his family to sit on the Board of Directors of New York Central Mutual.

Perhaps most important to Howard was his Christian faith. Raised a Baptist, he was confirmed into membership in the Second Baptist Church of Edmeston. After moving to Cooperstown he and Alice became faithful and dedicated members of the First Baptist Church of Cooperstown and through the years he served as a deacon and trustee of the church, and as a member of the choir.

In addition to his wife of 66 years, Alice, survivors include their three children, Julia T. DeLaurentiis and husband, Thomas, of Morris, Judy Talbot of Liverpool, and James C. Talbot of St. Petersburg, Fla.; one granddaughter, Teresa M. DeLaurentiis and her husband, William C. Burdick, of Morris; a great granddaughter, Fiorenza Marie Burdick; two brothers-in-law, Edward Losee and wife, Jean, and Graydon France; a sister-in-law, Nellie Losee; and numerous nieces, nephews and cousins. In addition to his par-ents, Howard was predeceased by a sister, Julia Anna Talbot, who died in infancy.

The funeral service was Wednesday, July 22, at the First Baptist Church of Cooperstown, with the Rev. Robert S. Turner, interim pas-tor, the Rev. Betsy Jay, Bassett Hospital chaplain, and the Rev. Douglas Deer, First Baptist’s retired pastor, officiating.

A service of committal and burial will follow at Lakewood Cemetery. Military Honors will be rendered by members of the Cooperstown Veterans Club and state Military Forces Honor Guard.

In lieu of flowers, the Talbot Family respectfully requests that memorial gifts be directed to The First Baptist Church Memorial Fund, the Cooperstown Emergency Squad, or Pathfinder Village Foundation.

Arrangements are entrusted to Connell, Dow & Deysenroth Funeral Home in Cooperstown.

Howard C. Talbot, Jr., 89; PresidentOf Baseball Hall Of Fame, 1977-94

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TERRYS/From A4ter, which mandated a city manager? Does the Council have someone else in mind who would be less qualified but more lax on city employ-ees? Would that person be more willing to let Common Council members operate without checks and balances? These are interesting conjectures.

No matter, those of you who participated in

the firing of Martin Murphy and denied tax-payers free speech should truly not be part of city government. You are not acting in the best interests of the citizens of this city when you put aside all the principles of American government to further your own motives.

WALTER & DIANE TERRYOneonta

LETTERS

Group That Fired Manager Don’t Deserve Public TrustTHAW HONORED ON 20TH ANNIVERSARY OF GIFT

Photo by Emma TannenbaumGuest of honor Gene Thaw, one of the foremost collectors and experts in Native American art, acknowledges the applause of Jane Forbes Clark, right, Andy Blum, left, and other attendees at NYSHA’s annual Summer Gala Friday, July 17, at Glimmerglen, the estate on Otsego Lake. The gala honored the 1995 gift of more than 800 pieces of art that allowed the creation of the Eugene & Clare Thaw Collection of American Indian Art that transformed The Fenimore Art Museum into the institution it is today.

To the Editor:In the July 18-19 issue of

The Daily Star, the headline read: “Council Votes To Fire Manager.” That should have been the subtitle. The title should have read, “Night of the Long Knives” or “The Surren-der of a City.”

The events that transpired at the Oneonta Common Council meeting Friday night, July 17, was reminiscent of the Stalin era show trials. At least with Stalin, you were present. The sordid deed was done while City Manager Martin Murphy was out of town for the week-end, only to be notified of his suspension by the media that same night; a sinister act obvi-ously long-planned in secrecy.

The city manager was then told that he had one day, Monday, to decide whether to accept a severance package or appeal the council’s decision – with the same council making the final decision after a public hearing. In other words, an appeal to the same kangaroo council that suspended him in the first place. A Hobson’s choice if there ever was one. Not even Sheldon Silver would have dared to pull off some-thing like that.

In essence, a rogue Com-mon Council, led by a Council member Michael Lynch, had awkwardly executed a political lynching of our city manager.

Like the recent rallying cry in France of, “I am Char-lie Hebdo,” similarly, “I am Martin Murphy.” Every citizen should make this their clarion call to action. He is our city manager to serve us, not for Michael Lynch to fire.

The public was forbidden to speak at the court martial. They

obeyed and sat in their seats stolid and stunned to the ox. Just a few muffled mumblings disguised as coughs. No cri de coeur – just silence.

The only missing elements were: there was no killing of the praetorians, no thanks in the street, and no media black-out. The liberal city of Oneonta with all of its parlor pinks, col-lege professors, and limousine liberals lost its nerve to speak.

Councilmember Dave Riss-berger asked to read a prepared statement in protest and was also told no. Mr. Rissberger insisted and through persever-ance shed light on the behind-the-scenes machinations of the Gang of Five. Et tu Palmer, Malone, Hennessy, and South-ard. Council member Chip Holmes complained that the city had spent an inexcusable amount of time debating if the city should allow its residents to possess chickens but none on a resolution to impeach the city manager without due process. The Roman emperors were clever. “Give them bread and circuses,” they said. Oneonta also threw in chickens.

Such a separate attempt to hold a banana-republic-style coup in a modern U.S.A. city can only suggest that the coun-cil and acting mayor see the citizens as “sheeple” and too busy to notice. It is my opinion that the City of Oneonta is run by a cabal of unscrupulous politicians whose only interest is their own with no tolerance for opposing viewpoints. They fly their tattered Tammany Hall banner that reads “Lie, Deny, Vilify.” They rule by fiat. Whose water are you carrying? Press, do your duty.

As a result, the city has

become divided and easy to run roughshod over its citizens. There is rancor by the city towards the town because of the town’s refusal to merge. David Rissberger’s letter has called the coup’s leaders liars and they in turn predetermined that Mr. Murphy was inclined to lie. So asking him to defend himself against allegations would be pointless. The city is also polarized on other fronts. Locals distrust downstaters. Council members betrayed one another, and on Friday night council threw the city manager under the bus.

About a year ago someone sent a Letter to the Editor sug-gesting that the city ought to change its name from Oneonta to Noneonta. Alternately, Mr. Murphy was trying to eke out a “maybe?” but council needed their Dreyfus. In the meantime, j’accuse.

GEORGE SIATOSOneonta

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HOUSE/From A3But now, Akins warns, the

historic Delancey-Cooper House, built in 1792 by John Peter Delancey on the Revo-lutionary War battle ground, Heathcote Hill, is at risk of being demolished, and she is hoping to raise $2.5 million to save it for the Mamaroneck Historical Society.

“In late 2012, I saw a ‘For Sale’ sign on the building,” she said. “I called, and they said they had developers calling too. It’s not the house - it’s the land. It’s got a great view of the harbor, and they want to put up condos.”

She quickly rallied sup-porters for a campaign to save the house, currently occupied by La Piccola Casa, an Italian restaurant, building owner Eddie Chmielecki’s restaurant supply business and several apartments. “Eddie wants to see it saved,” she said. “He

lives in Mamaroneck, he knows the historical value of the house.”

In 1890, the home was sold out of the Delancey family and moved down Heathcote Hill by oxcart to its current location. “Once they moved it off its footprint, it was no longer eligible for the historic registry,” said Akin. “Other-wise, it would be safe.”

Time is running short. Developers are hungry, she fears. “Any day, Eddie could call me up and say, ‘We’ve accepted a bid’.”

If enough is raised to buy the building, Akin’s group would turn it over to the Ma-maroneck Historical Society, which plans to renovate it and keep it running much like it is. “With the restaurant and the apartments, it earns more than it costs to own,” she said.

The barn, now used for

storage, will be turned into a historical museum and archive of Mamaroneck’s history. “We want a place where people can see what life was like here during the Revolutionary War,” she said. “We have so many documents and artifacts, but there’s no central location where people can access them.”

And, of course, there’ll be plenty of space dedicated to the first great American novelist. “Cooper fell in love with Susan there,” she said. “He was married in that liv-ing room. There’s an iron ring in the barn where he probably tied his horse!”

And though he’s mainly known with Cooperstown, Akin hopes that Mamaroneck will also become known for what he did - and wrote - while he was there. “He’s a wonderful part of our his-tory,” she said.

DIRECTOR/From A3against a standard, brewers can determine which to buy for their individual product lines. And farmers have a precise marketing tool when approaching the microbrew-eries that have been popping up across Upstate New York since the Farm Brewery Act of 2012.

Hartwick’s Center for Craft Food & Beverages has been in the making before December 2013, when the college received a $60,000 coveted CFA grant through the Mohawk Valley Regional Economic Development Council. Last August, the Appalachian Regional Com-mission contributed another $124,000 to the undertaking.

Even before MacLeod’s arrival, a team of faculty members – Carli Ficano, economics; Stan Sessions and Mary Allen, biology; and Zsuzsanna Balough-Brunstad, Andrew Peifer, Susan Young and Sanjeewa Gamagedara, chemistry – had begun providing research and assistance to brewers, and to “value added” farm-ers seeking to fill a $1 billion reported shortfall in the New York City market alone for natural foods.

MacLeod, who comes here from the Canadian Grain Commission’s Grain Re-search lab in Winnipeg, aims to provide support to this team, open up research op-portunities for students (and perhaps, future jobs in the industry), and range Central New York – intensively for the first few months – seeing what needs the center might fill.

Raised in Toronto, young Aaron became interested in chemistry while in high school, and received a B.Sc. in chemistry from the Uni-versity of Western Oneonta in London, Ont. “Analytical chemistry is like an investi-gation,” he said, “where in every sample there’s some-thing unknown. And we use our techniques to fill the gaps and build in the information where there is none.”

Graduating, he joined Car-gill, analyzing the nutritional properties in food and feed, then moved to the Canadian Grain Commission, where he specialized in malting and brewing quality, “a very col-

laborative and fun industry.”He and wife Erin have

moved to Oneonta with son Ian, who will be attending public schools in the fall.

During a photo shoot the other day, MacLeod was observing renovations un-derway on the second floor of the college’s Johnstone Science Center for offices, lab space and equipment on order for gas chromatogra-phy, high-performance liquid chromatography, atomic absorption spectroscopy and the like.

Hartwick’s center, he said, is the only one of its kind in Upstate New York and probably well beyond. Some land-grant universities provide testing services, as do a few private labs in the Midwest.

“To identify that need. To raise funds to meet that need – I think it’s a brilliant vision

Craft Food, Beverage DirectorArrives On Hartwick Campus Society Seeks $2.5M To Save Home

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BREAKFAST OF CHAMPIONS: Start the day off right with breakfast alongside Hall of Famers Ozzie Smith, Andre Dawson and Greg Maddux in the plaque gallery, followed by the an-nual PLAY Ball fundraiser on the Clark Sports Center fields on Susquehanna Ave. 8-11 a.m. Friday, July 24. Info, reservations, (607) 547-0397.

FASTBALL FILM: Kevin Costner narrates the documentary ‘Fastball’, co-produced by the Hall of Fame’s own Thomas Tull and featuring Hall of Fam-ers Hank Aaron, Nolan Ryan, Derek Jeter and others. 6:30 p.m. Friday, July 24, Grandstand Theater, Baseball Hall of Fame, 25 Main St., Cooperstown. Info, www.baseballhall.org

THOSE HONORED: Curt Flood, an-nouncers Tom Gage and Dick “Oh My!” Enberg and players who served in WWII will see their legacies honored at the Awards Presentation. 4:30 p.m. Satur-day, July 25 at Doubleday Field.

BIG PARADE: Line the streets to celebrate Hall of Famers as they march down Main Street in the Parade of Leg-ends. 6 p.m. Saturday, July 25, Main Street, Cooperstown.

INDUCTION: Bring a blanket and watch from the lawn as Craig Biggio, Randy Johnson, Pedro Martinez and John Smoltz are enshrined as the Class of 2015. Free, all welcome. 1:30 p.m. Sunday, July 26 Clark Sports Center, Susquehanna Ave. Info, webcast, www.baseballhall.org.

HEROES CHAT: Legends of the Game roundtable features Craig Big-gio, Randy Johnson, Pedro Martinez and John Smoltz telling stories of baseball. 10:30 a.m. Monday, July 27, Doubleday Field.

Cal Ripkin, Class of 2007, waves to fans during the 2014 Parade of Legends, planned again at 6 p.m. Saturday, July 25, on Cooperstown’s Main Street.

Hy Peskin photos courtesy William Austin, OneontaTed del Guercio looks dreamily toward Oneonta – and his future – from Franklin Mountain.

By JIM KEVLIN

ONEONTA

Once, Hy Peskin was shooting an event at the old Madison Square Garden on Eighth Avenue – East

Springfield’s Bob Boyle, the retired Sports Illustrated writer, doesn’t remem-ber if it was a boxing match or a basket-ball game – and the action was suddenly called to a halt.

Way, way up on a beam, far above the scene of the action, was Peskin, perched, camera at the ready, seeking a unique shot decades before Skycams or drones.

“He was absolutely fearless,” said Boyle of the man who, as a photogra-pher for Life and Look as well as SI, would capture Khrushchev’s 1959 visit to California (and Disneyland), Carmen

Basilio exulting after knocking out Tony Demarco in 1955, and John F. Kennedy’s 1954 romance with the ethereal Jacque-line Bouvier. “Nothing held him back.”

Oneonta’s Bill Austin knew nothing of this in 1992, when he was scout-

ing the weekly flea market in Modell’s Department Store, (on the site of today’s FoxCare Center.) He found a packet of photos, wrapped in plastic, just thrown on a table with other emphemera. The name, “PESKIN,” was rubber-stamped on the back.

The images were arresting. Ballplay-ers at leisure in the old Windsor Hotel at Chestnut and Main. A cherubic ballboy. A fan crossing behind the Damaschke grandstand on horseback. A handsome ballplayer – yes, looking a bit like Victor Mature, a Hollywood heartthrob of the day – standing at home plate with an at-titude of command.

Then the signature image: under a spreading Chestnut tree, somewhere near the beginning of Franklin Mountain, there was that same handsome ballplayer, looking through a summer’s haze toward

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Above, del Guercio at bat in Damaschke; at right, chatting with batboy.

Oneonta Red Sox socialize at the Windsor Hotel after a game.

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DREAMS/From B1distant Oneonta, dreaming dreams that might never come true.

Austin has since learned – and in some depth, thanks to the research of SUNY Oneonta history professor (and baseball enthusiast) Bill Simons – that dreamer was Ted del Guercio, who in 1945 was offered an unheard-of $19,000 signing bonus by the Red Sox. “In 1945, that was big money,” said Simons.

So as the 1946 season began, one of the most promising players in the Major Leagues arrived in the City of the Hills to play for the Oneonta Red Sox.

“It’s a great time for the American League,” said Simons, who worked with Bob Brzozowski, Greater Oneonta Historical Society executive director, on “Oneonta Baseball 1946,” which opened June 6 at the History Center and continues into early August. It’s a great time for the Red Sox.”

World War II had ended in 1945, and the Red Sox’ biggest stars, who had been

fighting in Europe or the Pacific – Joe DiMaggio, Bob Feller, Ted Williams, Hank Greenberg, all Hall of Famers today – were again playing in Fenway Park.

It was a good year in Oneonta, too – the O-Sox would win the American Legion pennant that year. Many of the local hopes were pinned on del Guercio, and fans filled Damaschke Field for game after game. “This guy’s a comer,” Simons recounted. “He’s going to be a future star.”

It must have been that sizzle that brought Peskin, still early in his career, to Oneonta, although that was long forgotten by the time Bill Austin ran across those photos. “What is Peskin? Is that a local photographer?” Austin asked himself as he examined the sharply defined images in Karen and Larry Kanter’s stand in the weekly flea market at Modell’s.

Austin is a collector of what interests him. Among the artifacts in his West End home is the rifle his great-grandfather car-ried during the Civil War, and the accom-panying ammunition bag with the initials

“NYS” – except for New York’s troops, ammunitions bags bore “CSA” or “USA.”

Once, at Woodbull Antiques in Milford, he happened on a glass negative of “Old Main,” home to much of SUNY Oneonta’s activities for decades after its founding in 1889 as the Oneonta Normal School at the top of Maple Street.

Examining the image later, he noticed the windows were different – it wasn’t the Old Main demolished in the 1970s after the college moved to its new campus on the hill. It was a rare image of the first Old Main, which burned in 1894.

So the Peskin photos competed for attention in a fascinating archive. “Every so often, I would show this to various people.” In 2002, he showed the packet to Gerry Raymonda, the commercial pho-tographer. He showed it to Jim Mullin, the local historian, and a picture of Peskin began to emerge.

During the 1920s and ‘30s he shot – no-tably, Brooklyn Dodgers games at Ebbets

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‘46 Was Great Time For Boston, And Oneonta Red Sox, Too

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DREAMS/From B2Field – for the New York Daily Mirror, and joined Look as photo editor after fighting with the Marines in World War II. It may have been dur-ing that period that he visited Oneonta.

He was the first photogra-pher to join Sports Illustrated, founded in 1954, and shot 40 covers for the magazine. (Earlier, his 1950 photo of Ben Hogan for Golf Digest, “The Merion Miracle,” is considered one of the greatest golf images of all time. The USGA now owns Peskin’s golf images.)

Bob Boyle, assigned to Time-Life’s San Francis-co Bureau, witnessed Peskin’s doggedness. Confined with the press to a gallery look-ing down on a dining

room where Kruschev was to be feted, he suddenly saw Pe-skin down below, rearranging the silverware on the Soviet leader’s table.

Peskin always thought ahead, Boyle said. Later in that visit, Kruschev was to tour a fancy supermarket in a wealthy suburb where a buffet table had been set up to show off the store’s high-end of-ferings. Peskin arrived early, stationing himself at the far end of the table so he could capture the farm boy from Kalinovka’s reaction.

Some of the world’s top photographers – from the wire services, The Times of London, Der Spiegel – were behind Kruschev, and a stampede resulted as they el-bowed each other for position. Peskin got Kruschev – and the stampede, Boyle remembered.

A technical failure – Pes-kin failed to capture a single image of the first Liston-Ali fight – ended his career. A Jew, he anglicized his name to Brian Blaine Reynolds and moved to Texas. He lived until 2005, dying at age 89 in an Israeli kibbutz.

As far as Austin and Si-mons can tell, the del Guer-cio photo spread was never published. They aren’t sure if the images have any value. Prices are strong for baseball memorabilia, though, so who knows, particularly if these are the only surviving copies from the original negatives.

As it happened, del Guercio’s summer of 1946, as he looked dreamily into his future from Franklin

Mountain, was the beginning of a dozen years of increas-ing disappointment, Simons recounted.

“He hit 310, a good batting average,” said Simons. “He didn’t hit a lot of home runs. It was a bigger ballpark in those days.” He averaged 320 in four seasons in Single A ball, 254 in Double A, and 263 in for seasons in Triple A. “Unfortunately,” said the professor, “he could not hit the big pitching.”

He had a bit of a temper,

and once punched a manager, which didn’t help his career either.

Meanwhile, one of the oth-er “bonus babies” from 1946, Lou Boudreau, had a suc-cessful career in Cleveland, setting the record for doubles hit in one game, and ended up in the Hall of Fame.

In 1958, del Guercio – Simons likens him to Crash Davis, the Kevin Costner character in “Bull Durham” – returned to Newark, N.J. “A pretty good piano player,”

he also played in a band.“He stayed with it a long

time” – until 1958, said Simons. “So the dream didn’t die easily. As the years went by, he would enjoy telling his children and grandchildren about those summers when he was in the game.” He lived into the late 1970s, and died in his chair listening to Big Band music.

“His dreams did not die,” Simons reflected. “They just went from present tense to past tense.”

Bob Boyle

Jim Kevlin/AllOTSEGO.baseball SUNY Oneonta history professor Bill Simons re-views the displays in “Oneonta Baseball 1946,” which includes a selection of Hy Peskin’s photos of Ted del Guercio. The exhibit is ongoing.

Del Guercio’s Dreams ‘Went To Past Tense’

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LegaL noticeSealed bids will be received as set forth in instruc-tions to bidders until 10:30 a.m. on August 20, 2015 at the NYSDOT, Contract Manage-ment Bureau, 50 WOLF RD, 1ST FLOOR, SUITE 1CM, ALBANY, NY 12232 and will be publicly opened and read. Bids may also be submitted via the internet using Bid Express (www.bidx.com).

A certified or cashier’s check payable to the NYS Dept. of Trans-portation for the sum specified in the proposal or a bid bond, FORM CONR 391, repre-senting 25% of the bid total, must ac-company each bid. NYSDOT reserves the right to reject any or all bids.

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Contractor is responsible for ensuring that all Amendments are incorporated into its bid. To receive notification of Amendments via e-mail you must submit a request to be placed on the Planholders List at www.dot.

ny.gov/doing-busi-ness/opportunities/const-planholder. Amendment may have been is-sued prior to your placement on the Planholders list.

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Contracts with 0% Goals are generally single operation contracts, where sub-contracting is not expected, and may present direct bidding opportu-nities for Small Business Firms, including, but not limited to, D/W/MBEs.

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UPON THE PASSAGE OF A BUDGET APPRO-PRIATION BILL BY THE LEGIS-LATURE AND GOVERNOR OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK

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D262297, PIN 9357.60, F.A. Proj. M0E1-9357-603, Otsego Co., 6.4 miles of pavement rehabilitation on I-88 with minor bridge repairs in the Towns of Otsego and Oneonta & City of Oneonta., Bid De-posit $3,000,000.00 Goals: DBE 8%2LegalJuly23

LegaL noticeMILL STREET STABLES, LLC

filed with SSNY 6/2/15. Office location: Otsego County. SSNY is designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to c/o Mill Street Stables, LLC, P.O. Box 107, 28 Mill Street, Gilbertsville, NY 13776. Purpose: Any lawful pur-pose.6LegalAugust21

LegaL noticeSUMMONS

ANDNOTICE

Filed August 27, 2015 Index No.: 2014-0878

STATE OF NEW YORK SUPREME

COURT COUNTY

OF OTSEGO

U.S. BANK, NA-TIONAL ASSOCI-ATION, SUCCES-SOR TRUSTEE TO BANK OF AMERICA, N.A. AS SUCCESSOR TO LASALLE BANK, N.A. AS TRUSTEE FORTHE MERRILL LYNCH FIRSTFRANKLIN MORTGAGE LOAN TRUST, MORTGAGE LOANASSET-BACKED CERTIFICATES,SERIES 2007-3,

Plaintiff:Mortgaged Premises:32 Church

Street Oneonta,(City of Oneonta)

NY 13820

vs.

Defendants:KATIE PA LOWSKI;

TO THE ABOVENAMED DEFEN-DANTS: YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to answer the Com-plaint in the above entitled action and to serve a copy of your Answer on Plaintiff’s attor-ney within twenty (20) days after the service of this Summons, exclu-sive of the day of service, or within thirty (30) days after completion of service where service is made in any other manner than by personal delivery within the

State. The United States of America, if designated as a Defendant in this action, may answeror appear within sixty (60) days of service hereof. In case of your failure to appear or answer, judg-ment will be taken against you bydefault for the relief demanded in the Complaint.

NOTICE OF NATURE OF

ACTION AND RELIEF SOUGHT

THE OBJECT of the above cap-tioned action isfor the foreclosureof: Mortgage bearing the date of April 11, 2007, executed by Katie Pawlowski to Mortgage Elec-tronic Registration Systems, Inc., as nominee for First Franklin FinancialCorp, an OP. Sub. of MLB&T Co., FSB to secure the sum of $120,600.00, and interest, and recorded in theOffice of the Clerk of Otsego County on April 17, 2007 in Document Number 2007 00054203.

That Mortgage Electronic Regis-tration Systems, Inc., as nominee for First Franklin Financial Corp., an OP. Sub. of MLB&T Co., FSB duly assigned said Note and Mortgage to LaSalle Bank National Associa- tion, as Trustee for Merrill Lynch First Franklin Mortgage Loan Trust, Mort-

gage Loan Asset-Backed Certificates Series 2007-3 by Assignment dated December 18, 2008 and recorded onFebruary 20, 2008 in the Office of the Clerk of Otsego County in Document Number 2009-00069457.

That Mortgage Electronic Regis-tration Systems, Inc., as nominee for First Franklin Financial Corp., an OP. Sub. of MLB&T Co., FSB duly assigned said Note and Mortgage to U.S. BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, SUCCESSOR TRUSTEE TO BANK OF AMERICA, N.A. AS SUCCESSOR TO LASALLE BANK, N.A. AS TRUSTEE FOR THE MERRILLLYNCH FIRST FRANKLIN MORTGAGE LOAN TRUST,MORTGAGE LOAN A SET- BACKED CER-TIFICATES, SERIES 2007-3 by Correction Assign-ment dated July 15, 2014 and recordedon September 29, 2014 in the Office of the Clerk of Otsego County in Instrument # 2014-4414.

The relief sought in the within action is a final judgment directing the sale of the MortgagedPremises described above to satisfy the debt secured by the Mortgage described above. Plaintiff designates Otsego County as

the place of trial. The basis of venue is the County in which the Mort gaged Premises issituated. Section: 300.5 Block: 3 Lot: 5

NOTICEYOU ARE INDANGER OF

LOSING YOURHOME

If you do not respond to this summons and com-plaint by serving a copy of the answer on the attorney for the Mortgage company who filed this foreclosure proceeding against you and filing the answer with the court, a default judgment may be entered and you can lose your home.

Speak to an at-torney or go to the court where your case is pending for further information on how to answer the summons and protect your property

Sending a payment to your Mortgage company will not stop this foreclo-sure action.

YOU MUST RE-SPOND BY SERV-ING A COPY OF THE ANSWER ON THE AT-TORNEY FOR THE PLAINTIFF (MORTGAGE COMPANY) AND FILING THE AN-SWER WITH THE COURT.

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ALL that certain plot, piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements thereon erected, situate, lying and being in the City of Oneonta, Otsego County, New York: BEGINNING at the northerly bounds of Reyn-olds Avenue and at the easterly bounds of Church Street and runs THENCE northerly along the easterly bounds of Church Street forty-eight feet more or less to the lands of William G. Shan-non; THENCE easterly along said Shannon’s land one hundred eight feetmore or less to the lands of Fred A.Carpenter; THENCE south-erly along said Carpenter’s land forty-eight feet more or less to the northerly bounds of Reynolds Avenue;THENCE westerly along the northerly bounds of Reyn-olds Avenue one hundred eight feet more or less to the place of BEGIN-NING4LegalJuly23

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Notice of Formation of Nina Marie’s Pizzeria, L.P.,

Cert. of LP filed with Sec’y of State(SSNY) on 5/29/15. Office location: Otsego County. SSNY designated as agent of LP upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of processto 7361 Route 28,Schuyler Lake, NY13457. Name/addr.of each gen. ptr.avail. at SSNY.Purpose: any lawful activities. Latestdate: 12/9/2017.6LegalJuly30

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LIMITED LIABILITY

COMPANY, (LLC)

Name: Lamb and Sheep Productions, LLC

Articles of Or-ganization filed with Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 11/20/2014.Office Location: Otsego County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom pro-cess against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to 66 Church Street Apt 6, Oneonta, N.Y. 13820. Purpose: Any lawful pur-pose.6LegalJuly23

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-- July 24-27. Cooperstown Baseball Hall of Fame Induc-tion weekend schedule at www.baseballhall.org. Also in Oneonta, Lenny Dykstra greets fans and signs autographs 6:30-8 p.m. Sat. July 26 at Southside Mall, 5006 State Hwy. 23.

HD THEATER BROADCAST -- 11:55 a.m. National Theater broadcast of performance of George Bernard Shaw’s comedy “Man and Superman,” starring Ralph Fiennes. $20 adults; $18 seniors; $10 students. Foot-hills Performing Arts Center, 24 Market St., Oneonta. Info, www.foothillspac.org or (607) 431-2080.

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St., Oneonta. LANDMARKS TALK -- 7 p.m. Learn how communities can designate and preserve historic landmarks, from NYS Historic Preservation’s Office’s Julian Adams. Free; public welcome. Oneonta City Council Chambers, 2nd floor, 258 Main St., Oneonta. Info, www.oneontahistory.org CONCERT -- 7 p.m. Free Lake-front Concert, with Mark Berger & Rich DePaolo (tales of the real West). Bandstand, Lakefront Park, 1 Pioneer St., Cooperstown. HYDE HALL HAUNTING - 6 p.m. & 7 p.m. (also Aug. 4 & 11). Meet the ghosts of Hyde Hall and hear eerie true tales of the home’s historic residents. $15, limited tour sizes, reservations required at (607) 547-5098. Hyde Hall historic site, 267 Glimmerglass State Park Rd., Cooperstown. www.hydehall.org

Wednesday, July 29 COOPERSTOWN CHESS -- 6-8 p.m. Wednesdays. Informal, open to all, boards provided. Village Library of Cooperstown, 22 Main St., Cooperstown. Info, www.vil-lagelibraryofcooperstown.org or (607) 547-8344. THEATER -- 7 p.m. Final performance of “The Compleat Works of Wllm Shkspr (abridged revised)” live. Monty Python meets Shakespeare as three men try to perform all The Bard’s works in 90 minutes. $15 adults, $12 seniors & members; $10 ages 7-12; 6 and under free. The Farmers’ Museum, 5775 Rte. 80, Cooperstown. Info, www.farmers-museum.org. MAIN ST. WALK -- 7 p.m.

GOHS’s Bob Brzozowski and Janet Potter lead walking tour of Main St., Oneonta, east of Deitz St. (West side walk Aug 12). $1 donation GOHS members, $2 others. Rain date, next day. Meet at Oneonta History Center, 183 Main St., Oneonta. Info, www.oneontahistory.org CONCERT -- 7 p.m. Richfield Springs Area Chamber of Com-merce Summer Concert Series hosts Seth & Nash (toe-tapping Americana). Free. Bring lawn chair or blanket; dancing encour-aged. Spring Park, Main St. (Rte. 20), Richfield Springs. Info, (315) 858-0964

Thursday, July 30 OPENING RECEPTION — 5-7 p.m. Free public reception for ARC Otsego’s “Voice! 11″–the 11th statewide juried art exhibi-tion of over 70 works by artists with disabilities. Exhibit open till noon Aug. 14. Martin-Mullen Art Gallery, Fine Arts Bldg., Ravine Pkwy., SUNY Oneonta. Info, www.arcotsego.org/aboutus/voice.html CONCERT -- 7:30 p.m. Cooperstown Summer Mu-sic Festival presents Bradley Brookshire, harpsichordist for the Metropolitan Opera, in “JS Bach ‘Goldberg Variations’ Demysti-fied.” $25 adults; $15 ages

6-18. Drawing Room, Hyde Hall historic site, 267 Glimmerglass State Park Rd., Cooperstown. Limited seating; tickets at (800) 838-3006 or www. brownpaper-tickets.com/e/1692495

Saturday, August 1 HD THEATER BROADCAST -- 12:55 p.m. National Theater broadcast of production of “The Audience” $20 adults; $18 seniors; $10 students. Foot-hills Performing Arts Center, 24 Market St., Oneonta. Info, www.foothillspac.org or (607) 431-2080. RAIL FAN DAY -- 9 a.m.-10 p.m. Celebrate trains with pump car rides, wrecking crane demo, track rides and displays, a chicken BBQ, more. Public wel-come. Milford Depot & Museum, Cooperstown & Charlotte Valley Railroad Depot, 136 East Main St., Milford. Info, (607) 432-2429 or www.lrhs.com

Sunday, August 2 MUSEUM TALK -- 1-3 p.m. Explore the exciting history of Oneonta’s “Huntington Fam-ily,” with Huntington Memorial Library genealogy librarian Sarah Livingston.” Free. Swart-Wilcox House Museum, Wilcox Ave. (off River St.), Oneonta. Info, (607) 432-0960.

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Wednesday, August 5 CONCERT -- 7 p.m. Richfield Springs Area Chamber of Com-

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Friday, August 7 ICE CREAM SOCIAL -- 5-8 p.m. Old-fashioned summer treat, part of Fabulous Friday along Main St. Free. Oneonta History Center, 183 Main St., Oneonta. Info, www.oneontahistory.org

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HINMAN HOLLOW – William Powers, 95, former Hartwick town justice, town supervisor and member of the Otsego County Board of Representatives, passed away Saturday evening, July 18, 2015, at his home.

Born Aug. 10, 1919, in the original Thanksgiv-ing Hospital in Cooperstown, he was the son of Michael and Jo-sephine (Moore) Powers.

He started school in a one-room schoolhouse in Hinman Hol-low. In 1936, at the age of 16, he inherited a dairy farm from his aunt and uncle, Susie and John Cross. He graduated from Milford High School in 1938.

In 1943, Bill married Doris Hughes of South Hartwick.

In addition to his interest in politics, he was a life-long dairy farmer, devoted husband and father, and parishioner at St. Mary’s Roman Catholic Church, Cooperstown, serving as an usher for over 20 years.

In addition to seven years on the county board and four as supervisor, for 15 years he worked with the county Board of Elections, setting up voting machines countywide.

He was a member of Dairylea for 50 years, a cer-tified tree farmer, and a past chairman and director of the Forestry Practice Board for a four-county area. He was also a member and past president of the Otsego County Conservation As-sociation. He was a Charter member of the Hinman Hollow Grange which was organized in 1933.

For 40 years, he was a secretary-treasurer for the Hartwick Town Insurance Co. and president for 10 years.

A member of the New York State International Flying Farmers Association, Bill owned and flew his own plane for 20 years. He was also well-known for 70

years as a talented fiddler and square dance caller and was a founding member of the Del-se-nango Olde Tyme Fiddlers. He played at house parties, barn danc-es, Grange meetings, and for 20 years played every month at the former Otsego

County Mead-ows, continuing at The Manor.

He was instrumental in the formation of Hartwick’s Kinney Memo-rial Library, was a member of the Hartwick His-torical Society, and in 1999 was named Hartwick Citizen of the Year.

Sometimes known as the “Flying Fid-dler,” Bill was known to make excellent dandelion wine, enjoyed raccoon hunt-ing, deer hunting, metal de-tecting and riding his ATV.

A kind and generous man, Bill was always there for anyone in need and al-ways set a great example.

In addition to Doris, his loving wife of 72 years, he is survived by two sons, William, Jr. of Milford, and Joseph and wife, Mary, of Pleasant Valley; five daugh-ters, Shirley Dobkins of Costa Mesa, Calif., Nancy Wyant of Hyattsville, Md., Jean Barry of Hartwick, Annette Kalinoski and husband, Tom, of Fletcher, Vt., and Jackie Fricke and husband, John, of North-field, Vt.; 17 grandchildren; eight great-grandchildren; a sister, Susan Gladstone of West Henrietta; and many nieces and nephews.

He was predeceased by two brothers, Michael and James, and two daughters, Barbara and Judy.

Calling hours are 4-7 p.m. Friday, July 24, at the Connell, Dow & Dey-senroth Funeral Home in Cooperstown, which was entrusted with the arrange-ments.

A funeral mass will be at 10 a.m Saturday, July 25, at St. Mary’s “Our Lady of the Lake” Roman Catholic Church in Cooperstown,

with Fr. John P. Rosson, pastor, officiating. A service of committal will follow in St. Mary’s Cem-etery, Index.

Memorial contributions may be made to the Hinman Hollow Grange, where Bill was a member for 82 years. The address is 1049 County Highway 45, Milford, NY 13807.

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HD THEATER BROADCAST -- 12:55 p.m. National Theater broadcast of production of John Steinbeck’s “Of Mice and Men.” $20 adults; $18 seniors; $10 students. Foothills Perform-ing Arts Center, 24 Market St.,

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COOP FARMERS MARKET –8 a.m.-2 p.m. Saturdays. Expanded hours through Aug. 29. 101 Main St., Pioneer Alley, Cooperstown. Rain or shine. Info, www.Cooper-stownFarmersMarket.org

COMMUNITY CONVERSA-TIONS -- 8-9 a.m. Tuesdays. Join Oneonta Common Council members for coffee & chat. Main Street Creamery, So. Main St. at Ford Ave. (across from City Hall), Oneonta.

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HISTORIC PLACES EXHIBIT - through Aug. 8. Educational exhibit celebrating Oneonta properties listed on the national and state Historic Registers. Free. Oneonta History Center, 183 Main St., Oneonta. Hours, info, www.oneontahistory.org or (607)

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