Cooperstown

Just over a year ago my wife Mary Beth and I, had the day off and it was a beautiful day.  We went to one of our favourite breakfast nooks called the Sleepless Goat and had an incredible breakfast.

While we were sitting there, we discussed the possible things that we could do that day like clean the apartment–naw! Go shopping? That was a possibility and could work.  So as i was reading the paper, Mary Beth just said,” Let’s go to Cooperstown.”  So off we went.

Cooperstown is roughly about 3 and a half hours from Kingston.  This was 10am so I didn’t think we had time but it was worth a shot.

We arrived at The Hall of Fame around 2pm.  Cutting it close but exciting.  I had no idea that the town was all a baseball theme.  Pretty cool!

Seeing Hank Aaron’s locker and the old Yankees ticket wicket was awe inspiring.  Doubleday Field was serene.  We practically had the whole town to ourselves.

The coolest exhibit and probably hands down the most numbing was seeing Babe Ruth’s bat.  I don’t know why, but it was chilling.

We wished we would have spent a little more time there and we’ll get back there soon.  It was a beautiful day spent with a beautiful woman and a beautiful game.  I can’t wait to bring our son Darcy!

I did notice something missing from the Hall.  We looked all over even in the room with the plaques, but somehow we couldn’t find Pete Rose.

Maybe he’ll be there next time, I hope.

–Mark