Tuesday, August 11, 2009

August 11: Cooperstown Dreams Park

On Tuesday, we spent the entire day at Cooperstown Dreams Park. It is a huge baseball facility of 22 little league diamonds, barracks, batting cages, you name it, for baseball camp. You can sign up your little league team to go here for $750 a coach/player, so I reckon it would cost about $10,000 a team. Ian really wants to go. Right now they're taking team registrations for the year 2011, and require a $1000 deposit.

We watched games all day long, but especially enjoyed seeing the Toms River, New Jersey Black Sox team play. The parents were great - cheering for their team non-stop, and never forgetting that it's a Game. (Some of the other parents we sat with during the day were really hard on their kids when errors were made, and I felt really bad for them.)


It's a beautiful complex, and very well organized. Everyone who worked there was very friendly, and everyone was talking baseball. We stayed until well after 7 in the evening. It was just a beautiful day.