Cooperstown

James Cooper and Washington Irving: Different but Alike Washington Irving was born on April 3rd, 1783. He spent his childhood growing up in Manhattan, New York alongside of his ten other siblings. His parents were William and Sarah Irving, his mother was the granddaughter of a clergyman, and his father was an affluent merchant who strongly supported the cause of American Independence. All of Williams sons were expected to support themselves so therefore, he sent Washington to study law in 1801,…

of the Mohicans and The Pioneer is used more thoroughly in The Pioneer and less in The Last of the Mohicans. The town village used in The Pioneer is Templeton but some say it is based off of his father’s town in Cooperstown, New York. Scholars have actually sought to connect Cooperstown and Templeton and discover biological connections of Cooper’s personal relationships. The last of the Mohicans describes the importance of land ownership and emerging cultures. The novels both describe the…

Outing July 29th. It is coming soon and we to start wrapping some things up. Frank sent out an email on May 26th with the sign up information as well as the golf flyer. The fundraisers coming up will be important in helping out 12U Katz get to Cooperstown and help reduce the per player cost. I do understand that some parents might not want to participate in all the fundraising and that is fine. We will be dividing up the fundraising based on the families who have participated in the fundraising…

my passion. I have played baseball every summer, but if I had to choose a favorite it would of been the summer of 2010, when I was twelve. The reason why it's my favorite is because I got to experience an event of a lifetime, playing baseball in Cooperstown, New York. There is a tournament there every summer that consists of more than one-hundred teams and the only way to describe it is amazing. In order to play in this tournament, we had to fundraise enough money to be able to compete, and…

and still is today. Ozzie has had many achievements; fifteen time all star, World Series Champion(1982), NLCS MVP(1985), thirteen time Gold Glove winner, Silver Slugger award, #1 retired for the Cardinals in honor of him, and a Hall of Famer in Cooperstown, New York. Ozzie was nicknamed ‘The Wizard of Oz’ because it seemed that Ozzie stopped every baseball coming his way. Ozzie is a true leader, being the captain of the 1982 World Series team, and seasons throughout his legendary career. I…

I’ve had a variety of exposures to healthcare. I’ve worked in locations ranging from medically isolated villages in rural Africa to urban clinics in the United States, and I’ve been guided by physicians representing disciplines such as family medicine, infectious disease, and pediatrics. Just as diversity is essential to medicine, a diverse range of exposures is equally important for a medical student. The reason I am most interested in the Columbia-Bassett program is because it will provide me…

10 Jose Bolivar June 3, 2016 MLB Hall Of Fame Process Major League Baseball, also known as the MLB which was first inducted in 1936. The national baseball hall of fame is located in New York. More specifically in the city of Cooperstown. Over the past eighty years there has been over three hundred and ten players, managers, umpires, executives inducted into the MLB hall of fame. An average amount of 4 people have been inducted into the hall of fame every year. In this…

No major league ballplayer is associated with the term “pine tar” more than Kansas City Royals Hall of Famer George Brett. The pine tar incident is still one of the most bizarre umpiring decisions in recent history. What Happened in the Pine Tar Game With two outs in the top of the 9th inning and The Royals down a run to the Yankees, George Brett stepped up to the plate with a man on first base. Yankees skipper Billy Martin called on his closer, Goose Gossage, to make the final out in the game.…

Our team had just finished the second game of the day in Cooperstown NY. We had already lost a game and we had to win the next game to move on. I was pitching this next game. I was prepared and then went to warm up. “10 minutes to game time!” the umpire yelled. We were the visitors team which meant we hit first. Everybody on my team was ready to play when the game finally started. The top of our line up went up to bat. We scored two runs in the first inning and then it was time for me to start…

Rickey Henderson was one of the most notable Illinois-born baseball players that there will ever be. Rickey was born on Christmas, Dec. 25, 1958, but he spent most of his childhood in Oakland, California playing baseball and football. After battling for 4 long years in the minors, Rickey Henderson would get his shot in the Majors in 1979. (“Rickey Henderson, American Baseball Player”). Henderson was a wonderful running back in his 4 years of high school, ultimately he turned down offers from…