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The National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum honored its 2020 and 2021 award winners at a ceremony at the Glimmerglass Festival’s Alice Busch Opera Theater on Saturday.
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The next Cliff Kachline – Cooperstown/Upstate/Central NY Society for American Baseball Research (SABR) Chapter meeting will take place on Sunday, July 25 at 6 p.m. at Tillapaugh’s, located at 28 Pioneer Street in Cooperstown.
The National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum has hired a new president.
The National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum said Monday its induction ceremony will no longer be a limited, ticketed event, but the change to a September date will remain.
State Sen. Peter Oberacker, R-Schenevus, announced that the state Legislature passed legislation designating baseball as New York’s official state sport.
The induction of baseball greats into the National Baseball Hall of Fame and museum has been rescheduled to September and will be opened to a limited crowd.
Both of the Laurens/Milford track and field teams took first place Tuesday, June 1, at the Tri-Valley League Championships. The boys finished with 137 points while the girls tallied 159 points. The other schools that competed included Downsville, Cherry Valley-Springfield, South Kortright, F…
The Cooperstown girls track and field team won the team title at the Center State Conference Championships on Saturday, June 5.
A pair of no-hitters were highlights of the final week of high school baseball’s regular season.
 Roxbury’s softball team outlasted Richfield Springs in a 27-22 shootout in Monday’s Section IV Class D Quarterfinal contest.
Milford scored seven runs in the fifth inning to defeat Franklin in a Tri-Valley League softball contest Friday, May 7. It was more than enough to support a strong pitching performance by Leanna West.
Cherry Valley-Springfield took an early lead and held off a Franklin comeback attempt for a 3-1 win on the road Friday, April 23, in the final girls soccer game of the season for both teams.
The Milford/Laurens boys soccer team outshot visiting Franklin/Unatego 11-7 in a 2-0 loss on Thursday, April 8.
The Milford/Laurens boys soccer team defeated visiting Morris, 3-0, in the team’s Tri-Valley League season opener. Tuesday, March 30.
The Cherry Valley-Springfield girls soccer team defeated visiting Richfield Springs, 3-0 on Thursday, March 25.
The Cooperstown girls volleyball team defeated Delhi three sets to zero at home on Tuesday, March 16.
John Kennedy scored a game-high 19 points and grabbed 15 rebounds to lead the Cooperstown boys basketball team to a road victory over Richfield Springs, 69-31 on Thursday, March 11, to end the team’s season.
Cooperstown’s John Kennedy scored 31 points-including his first 3-point field goal-and grabbed 18 rebounds to lead the Hawkeyes boys basketball team to a victory over visiting Sherburne-Earlville, 69-44 on Tuesday, March 9, which was Senior Night.
 Hayleigh Gates scored a game-high 23 points to lead the visiting Mount Markham girls basketball team to a win over Richfield Springs, 68-22., on Wednesday, March 10,
The visiting Sauquoit Valley boys basketball team held Richfield Springs scoreless in overtime to secure a 68-60 victory on Saturday, March 13.
John Kennedy had 32 points, 20 rebounds and six blocks to lead the Cooperstown boys basketball team to a victory over Richfield Springs, 62-45.
 Aidan Mackey scored nine points and grabbed nine rebounds to lead the Oneonta boys basketball team to a home victory over Cooperstown on Wednesday, March 3, 64-40.
Libby Lamport scored a game-high 23 points to lead the Delhi girls basketball team to a 54-33 victory over visiting Cooperstown on Friday, March 5.
 John Kennedy had 27 points on 13-14 from the field to lead the Cooperstown boys basketball team to a 55-39 victory over visiting Unatego Thursday, Feb. 25.
Meg Perry scored a personal-best 33 points to pass the 1,000-point mark and lead the Unatego girls basketball team to a 60-21 win over Cooperstown Thursday, Feb. 25.
NEW YORK (AP) — The baseball Hall of Fame won’t have any new players in the class of 2021 after voters decided no one had the merits — on the field or off — for enshrinement in Cooperstown.
The National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum announced Jan. 29 that it will celebrate the Los Angeles Dodgers’ 2020 World Series title with a special exhibit.
Cooperstown native Tyler Bertram is settling into a role with Binghamton University’s men’s basketball team.
 In a year when COVID-19 canceled high school athletic competition, two local equestrians switched playing fields and qualified for a national dressage competition.
The Community Foundation of Otsego County is seeking input on how to best target $200,000 in grants for the spring of 2021.
Cooperstown’s Tyler Bertram provided some drama in his first weekend on the basketball court for the Binghamton University Bearcats, but it wasn’t enough.
Tyler Bertram, sharpshooting Cooperstown basketball standout, has begun his first season with Binghamton University.
The New York State Public High School Athletic Association announced Tuesday, Dec. 1, that the start date for “high risk” winter sports will be moved to Jan. 4, 2021, as COVID-19 continues to spread.
Curt Schilling, Roger Clemens and Barry Bonds are the leading candidates returning to baseball’s Hall of Fame ballot in a year without any favorites among the new names.
The National Baseball Hall of Fame is offering special programing honoring veterans of the armed services for the month of November.
 Bo and Tom DeMarco combined to win the Art-Nate VanSteenburg Memorial Classic Bass Tournament on Oct. 17, held at Otsego Lake.
Cooperstown Central School has canceled its fall sports season.
After Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s Monday announcement cleared the way for most fall sports to begin practicing and playing Sept. 21, the New York State Public High School Athletic Association began the process of navigating the governor’s guidance Tuesday, Aug. 25, with the goal of facilitating some…
The National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum announced Monday, Aug. 24, that its Board of Directors voted unanimously to reschedule the two Era Committee elections slated for this winter “as a result of uncertainties associated with the COVID-19 pandemic.”
 The New York State Public High School Athletic Association held its annual summer meeting of the Central Committee on Wednesday, July 29, voting on several proposals and formally changing the group’s officer positions.
The village of Richfield Springs will receive a $1 million grant to improve its water drainage system.
The National Baseball Hall of Fame Class of 2020 will partake in virtual events on what was originally scheduled to be Hall of Fame Weekend, July 23-26.
The start of the fall sports season will be delayed until Monday, Sept. 21, and there will be no regional or state championships this fall, the state organization in charge of public high school sports announced Thursday, July 16.
Four area wrestlers were in action Sunday, June 21, with Milford’s Avery Leonard leading the way with a first-place finish at the Cheesehead Apocalypse tournament held in Wisconsin Dells, Wisconsin.
While sports teams not affiliated with schools will likely enjoy the state’s latest round of rules regarding youth athletics, the same cannot be said for school teams.
The National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in Cooperstown announced Wednesday it is preparing to reopen its doors on Friday, June 26, “in accordance with New York state’s regionally-focused phased reopening plan and with many enhanced health and safety procedures.”
Longtime Cooperstown Central School coach and athletic director Dave Bertram announced Monday, June 22, that he will leave his job with the district to become the athletic director at Mohonasen Central School.
After winning just about everything there was to win in 2018-19, Cooperstown boys basketball coach John Lambert faced a different challenge in his second season leading the Hawkeyes.
The COVID-19 pandemic has already eliminated countless opportunities in the realm of sports, and it looks as though it will eliminate countless more.
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