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...truth be told, it is possible that no one from either team will ever get inside the Hall of Fame in Cooperstown unless he buys a ticket...
What U.S. cultural magnet is located in Cooperstown, N.Y.? Easy: GLIMMERGLASS OPERA. Well, yes, the Baseball Hall of Fame is there too, but in contrast to the Hall of Fame, Glimmerglass's hits (and its basses) are onstage. Set along the sylvan shore of Otsego Lake, the festival is noted for its ambitious repertory and stable of budding American singers. This summer's season features a Jonathan Miller production of Beethoven's Fidelio, in which Miller does not change the 18th century prison locale to one of those voguish operatic places he calls "nowhere and nowhen," but instead treats...
...arrived at Vincent's office last Monday, he was presented with the draft of an order suspending him for two years. As expected, Steinbrenner's lawyers protested. At that moment Vincent unveiled his counteroffer, scribbling the terms on a yellow legal pad that should be enshrined under glass in Cooperstown. The agreement called for Steinbrenner to acknowledge wrongdoing, become a minority owner, forgo any possible litigation and agree to a lifetime ban on even discussing the Yankees with the new managing partner...
...Rose's unfathomable squandering of his own ability, his willingness to surrender his history for the rush of the bet that will make his memory endure beyond any portrait hanging in a gallery in Cooperstown. In the end, it wasn't the courts, or a pointy-headed commissioner out to get him, or his bookie friends squealing on him, but just himself that took baseball from...
...place like Cooperstown, N.Y., which redefines the term "hamlet," 25,000 people is a deluge of humanity. And most of them came from New England to see the most human of baseball players, Carl Michael Yastrzemski, officially become a baseball legend...