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Samuel Finley Breese Morse, Allston's friend and pupil, whose fame for inventing the telegraph has obscured his gifts as an artist. One of the finest landscapes on display was Morse's View From Apple Hill, Cooperstown, New York, a long, radiant vista of Lake Otsego...
Abner Doubleday was a general in the Civil War. The world will probably little note nor long remember what he did at Gettysburg* but it can never forget what he did at Cooperstown. In that sleepy little New York village 99 years ago, he invented baseball...
...until 1907, 14 years after General Doubleday's death, that a research committee definitely established Cooperstown as the birthplace of baseball. Civic-proud Cooperstownians, whose pastoral background had already been immortalized as the home town and nameplace† of James Fenimore Cooper, bought the original baseball field, spent $25,000 to transform it into a modern ball park and public playground, named it Doubleday field. Three years ago, in anticipation of the 100th birthday of the game, baseball bigwigs and benefactors joined hands to make Cooperstown a bigger, better shrine. To preserve its treasures, baseball sentimentalists decided to build...
...Littleton 2.00 Waterville Inn, Waterville V'II'y 4.50 VERMONT Bradford Inn, Bradford $3.50 Crestwood Hotel, Rutland 1.50 Middlebury Inn, Middlebury 4.50 White Hart Inn, Salisbury 6.00 Windsor Hotel, Windsor 1.50 MASSACHUSETTS The Northfield, East Northfield $4.00 Weldon Hotel, Greenfield 2.00 Williams Inn, Williamstown 6.00 NEW YORK Cooper Inn, Cooperstown...
...Littleton 2.00 Waterville Inn, Waterville V'll'y 4.50 VERMONT Bradford Inn, Bradford $3.50 Crestwood Hotel, Rutland 1.50 Middlebury Inn, Middlebury 4.50 White Hart Inn, Salisbury 6.00 Windsor Hotel, Windsor 1.50 MASSACHUSETTS The Northfield, East Northfield $4.00 Weldon Hotel, Greenfield 2.00 Williams Inn, Williamstown 6.00 NEW YORK Cooper Inn, Cooperstown...