2019-05-12 – Panorama of the Mountains

My son and I took an overnight trip during spring break to Cooperstown to visit the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum. This is my fourth trip to Cooperstown and the Hall of Fame. I have mixed feelings about Cooperstown. On the one hand, Cooperstown is an absolutely gorgeous village and its fun to drive the winding roads through scenic farmland to get to the town and its excellent museums. On the other hands, the story of baseball being invented in Cooperstown is completely fabricated, and places with much better claims on being the place where baseball was invented in New York City, New Jersey, and New England would be a lot easier to get to for most visitors. Cooperstown needs the Hall of Fame more than the Hall of Fame needs Cooperstown.

That being said we had a great time walking through the town that was largely empty of people, visiting the baseball memorabilia stores, and taking in the exhibits at the Hall of Fame. I took a lot of photographs including the plaques of all my favorite Hall of Famers and posted them in this web album.

All-American Girls Professional Baseball League uniforms.

The hats worn by Nolan Ryan for each of his no-hitters.

The Phillie Phanatic trapped in a glass box.

Peter pays due reverences to the 2018 World Series Champion Red Sox exhibit.

April 15 was Patriots Day in Massachusetts and we celebrated in our usual way.

First, we attended the Red Sox game, the only scheduled MLB game each season scheduled to start before noon. The weather was cold and wet and the Red Sox lost, but it’s still better than going to work on a Monday morning.

Next, we went to watch the runners in the Boston Marathon. We somehow missed seeing all four people we knew running the race, but cheered on lots of strangers at the corner of Hereford and Boylston. This is a fun place to watch since it’s the first place the runners can see the finish line and they get very jubilant at the turn.