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Beyond the obelisks and mausoleums in Frankfort’s Oak View Cemetery the

land dips into an open space: Potter’s Field, where Bud Fowler was buried

in an unmarked grave.

Bud Fowler, second row, right, while playing baseball in Findlay, Ohio.

Village Historian Hugh MacDougall, left, es-tablished Fowler’s Cooperstown roots; Mayor Jeff Katz, right, determined to recognize them.

Hesse Galleries Packed For Stevens Hardware Auction

Jim Kevlin/AllOTSEGO.lifeTom Heitz examines the memorial to John “Bud Fowler” Jackson in Oak View Cemetery, Frankfort, erected by the Society for American Baseball Research on July 25, 1987. While Hall of Fame librarian, Heitz helped revive interest in Fowler’s career.

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Ian Austin/AllOTSEGOMary Lossi and Sandy Swift ladle up Italian dressing onto salad at the 2012 Joe & Mary’s Banquet.

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On the first warm day of spring, nearly 200 bid-ders and gawkers packed

hesse Galleries to bid – or even just sneak a peek – at the legacy of Stevens’ Hardware memorabilia on the auction block.

“We usually have a crowd, but

not like this!” said Lisa Killmeier, auctioneer Buzz hesse’s assistant. “This is a very special occasion. Quite a few showed up just to watch.”

Over the chatter of the stand-ing-room-only hall, hesse called out the increasing bids on items from Oneonta’s oldest downtown store, which closed Nov. 1: “Do I have 15, can I get 20, 20 over here, anyone for 30 . . . .”

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6th Ward ClubTo Relive Joe,Mary Dinners

TALENT SHOW: 6:30-9 p.m. Cooperstown residents get a chance to sing, dance and show off at the annual Coop’s Got Talent show. 6:30-9 p.m. Friday, April 12. Sterling Auditorium, Cooperstown High School.

GAMBLERS, DAMES: OhS presents “Guys and Dolls” featuring hit songs “Luck Be a Lady” and “A Bushel and a Peck.” $5 students, $10 adults. 8 p.m. Friday-Saturday April 12-13, 2 p.m. Sunday, April 14. Belden Auditorium, Oneonta high School.

EARTH DAY: Celebrate Mother Earth with gardening workshops, vendors, recy-cling and paper shredding. 8:30 a.m.-3 p.m. Milford Central School, organized by the Otsego County Conser-vation Association.

DOLLAR DINNER: $1 doesn’t buy much, but it can get you a plate of spaghetti with meat sauce, beverage, bread and a cookie. 5-7 p.m. Friday, April 12, Laurens Presbyterian Church.

Relive Joe & mary’s famous “family-style” dinners at the

second annual Joe & mary memorial Banquet. $35, cash bar, reservation re-quired. Saturday, April 13, 6th Ward Athletic Club.

By JIm KEVLIN

COOPErSTOWN

he soaring cast-iron monument, two sto-ries tall, topped with

the evocative statue of a kindly young woman, book in hand, pointing heavenward, commemo-rates tiny twins, Cora and Flora, who died a month apart in the sum-mer of 1876 before their first birthdays, the children of bereaved Thomas and Angeline Leech.

A few steps beyond in Frankfort’s hilltop Oak View Cemetery is a barren and empty depression in the earth, a potter’s field, Frankfort’s final resting place for the forgotten.

The stones on the few marked graves – many are unmarked – are stunt-ed. Within a foot of the driveway, peppered by pebbles kicked up by passing tires, is a modest but sturdy gran-ite marker.

Before SABr, the Society for American Baseball re-

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Cooperstown Researchersrediscover Local Legend

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Cooperstown celebratesBud Fowler weekendFirst Black Professional Baseball Player Raised in the Village of Cooperstown

SCHEDULE OF EVENTSSaturday, April 20

4 pm • Cooperstown Chamber of Commerce • 31 Chestnut StreetThe Dedication of Fowler Way…Mayor Katz and the Cooperstown Village Trustees

Featuring Members of the Society for American Baseball Research 19th Century Committee (SABR)4:30 pm • Historic Doubleday Field • Cooperstown

Keynote Speech by Major League Baseball Historian John ThornUnveiling of Bud Fowler Informational Kiosk by Cooperstown Graduate Program

in Museum Studies Students (CPG)Sunday, April 21

10 am • Grandstand Theatre • National Baseball Hall of Fame & Museum • 25 Main StreetSABR meeting, with CPG students to discuss findings from a just-concluded

research program into the Fowler story.

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FOWLER/From B1search, dedicated that stone on July 25, 1987, there was no memorial to the man who has the best claim of any Cooperstownian to baseball greatness.

Beneath the stone are the remains of John Jackson, aka Bud Fowler, who SABR declared was the first black to play in “organized minor baseball leagues” in the last quarter of the 19th century,

before “the colored curtain” exiled them from profes-sional teams.

Of 70 professional ball-players, Bud Fowler, born in Fort Plain and raised in Cooperstown, “was the first (in pro ball) by several years and the one who played the longest, 10 seasons,” SABR researchers found. “He was also one of the best black players of that genera-tion and thereby helped to

provide a limited opportu-nity for other players of his race.”

The current movie “1942” has put Jackie Robinson in the public conscious-ness again, but Bud Fowler played his first professional game – in Chelsea, Mass. – in 1878, 68 years before Branch Rickey recruited Robinson for the Montreal Royals and, then, the Brook-lyn Dodgers.

While, since the SABR rediscovery, in particular, knowledge of John Jackson has risen among baseball fans – a biography, “Bud Fowler: Baseball’s First Black Professional,” is due out in June – he is little known to the public at large.

Still, what a comeback since that morning in 1983, when newly arrived Nation-al Baseball Hall of Fame Li-brarian Tom Heitz was sort-ing files at 25 Main. “I was looking for someone else in the ‘F’ series,” he remem-bers, “and I happened upon a folder that said ‘Fowler, Bud.’ There was a note there, ‘Jackson=Fowler’.”

The file had been started by Lee Allen, a Hall of Fame historian who had died suddenly on May 19, 1969, at age 54, leaving “a stack of pending projects,” Heitz later recounted in a published account. The folder indicated Allen had established the Cooperstown link, and also concluded

Fowler was the first black professional ballplayer.

The name George Til-lapaugh surfaced in the file, and Heitz sought out the Cooperstown funeral director (his son, Martin, runs Tillapaugh Funeral Service today). Tillapaugh, it turns out, had buried one of Jackson’s relatives (in the Christ Church yard), and had learned about the Fowler story.

Another piece of the puz-zle was in James Fenimore Cooper’s “Tales of a North-ern County.” Jimmy Cooper, some surmised, went to school with Jackson, played ball with him and in “Tales” related that the “little black boy ... felt his color so much that he used to say that, if it would make him white, he would willingly be skinned alive.”

“As a librarian, I had more than enough to deal with,” said Heitz. “It’s tempting for librarians to get involved in the research problems of their clients.” Still, as HoF librarian, he had standing to encourage others to pursue research he could not.

In 1985, Heitz visited Bob Davids, a founding father of SABR, at his home in the suburbs of Washing-ton, D.C. During the course of a long conversation and dinner at Davids’ home, he suggested that SABR take on the Bud Fowler story.

A monograph Davids then prepared further strength-ened the Cooperstown tie: He found Jackson’s father listed as a barber in Cooperstown in the 1860 Census. The 1970 Census listed the son as 13 and reported he “attended school within the year.”

Davids’ article – it traces Bud Fowler’s professional career in some detail – was reprinted in the program for the 1987 “memorial ob-servance” at the Frankfort potter’s field. And he credits two dozen benefactors for helping with the research, and helping raise money for the stone.

Still, the genealogy had not been definitively estab-

lished and, as Internet offer-ings multiplied in the 1990s, Village Historian Hugh MacDougall took up the challenge. “He’s a fantastic researcher,” said Heitz.

A long article in the black press – MacDougall found it in the Feb. 20, 1909, edition of the Indianapolis Free-man – further detailed the Cooperstown connection. And he obtained a copy of Fowler’s death certificate from the Frankfort town clerk, listing the former ballplayer’s death, Feb. 26, 1913, age 54, as be-ing caused by “pernicious anaemia.”

So as the 100th anni-versary of his death ap-proached, the outlines of the Bud Fowler/John Jackson story had fairly well de-termined, and Mayor Jeff Katz decided it was time to correct a historic omission, time for Baseball Town, repository of so many other communities’ baseball he-roes, to recognize its own hero.

“I picture myself as a knowledgeable baseball fan,” said Katz, “but I had never heard of Bud Fowler until I moved to Cooperstown.”

Katz credits Tom Shieber, senior curator at the Hall of Fame, with suggest-ing the idea when they ran into each other at the 2012 Cooperstown Winter Carni-val. The mayor first con-sidered attaching a second street sign, “Fowler Way,” to “Hoffman Lane,” across from the Hall.

Trustee Cindy Falk did some initial research, and she discovered an un-named street in the village: The lane that leads from Chestnut Street, past the Cooperstown Chamber of Commerce, to Doubleday Field, the baseball shrine. Unnamed! “Once that hap-pened, it became clear,” said Katz. “It was so perfect.”

Bud Fowler, out-growth of John Jackson’s Cooperstown boyhood, is the subject of commemora-tions the weekend of April 20-21. A street sign, “Fowl-er Way,” will be unveiled at 4 p.m. that Saturday. MLB official historian John Thorn will deliver an assessment after a plaque is then dedi-cated at Doubleday Field. At 10 a.m. that Sunday, his career will be discussed at a forum in the Hall’s Grand-stand Theater.

The question remains: Should John Jackson be ensconced in the Hall of Plaques in the community where he learned to play. Definitely, MacDougall declares.

The Hall, of course, doesn’t pick its own induct-ees. The vehicle to ac-complish that would be the Historical Overview Com-mittee of the Baseball Writ-ers’ Association of Ameri-can, said Hall spokesman Craig Muder. Every three years, it prepares a Pre-In-tegration Era ballot, but it reported back its last ballot in December, so no further review will be forthcoming until December 2015.

Still, MacDougall reports 10 Pre-Integration ballplay-ers were nominated. Bud Fowler, he said, was number 11. Who knows?

Dedicated Researchers Recognized Significance Of Cooperstown’s Fowler

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SCIENCE OLYMPICS -- Rox-bury Rockets Junior High Sci-ence Olympiad Team compete in NY State Science Olympia; Also Sat.. Syracuse University, 900 South Crouse Ave, Syracuse. Info, (607) 431-4733.

OPEN STUDIO -- 1-4 p.m. Smithy Center for the Arts pot-tery open studio. Supervisors on hand doing wheel demos. 55 Pioneer St., Cooperstown. Info, (607) 547-86714.

LECTURE -- 4 p.m. “The Soviet Occupation of Russian Ortho-dox Iconography,” Doug Zullo, Ass. Prof. of Art & Art History. Hartwick College, Bresee Hall’s Eaton Lounge, 1 Hartwick Rd., Oneonta. Info, Matthew Voor-hees, (607) 431-4387, voor-heesm@hartwick.edu.

PORK DINNER -- 4:30-7 p.m. Adults $9, Children $5. Eat in or take out. Cooperstown United Methodist Church, 66 Chestnut St., Cooperstown. Info, (607) 547-9540.

DOLLAR DINNER -- 5 -7 p.m. Spaghetti dinner with meat sauce, bread, beverage and cookie. $1, proceeds go to Pas-tor’s emergency fund. Lauren’s Presbyterian Church, 3 Main St., Laurens. Info, (607) 432-3738.

TALENT SHOW -- 6:30-9 p.m. “Coop’s Got Talent.” Performers must fill out forms in the office of either the elementary or high school. Cooperstown High School, Sterling Auditorium, 39 Linden Ave., Cooperstown. Info, Jane, (607) 547-9365.

SQUARE DANCE-- 7:30 p.m. The Doubleday Dancers evening of square dancing at Cooperstown Elementary School. 21 Walnut St., Cooperstown. Info, (607) 264-8128.

Saturday,April 13

EARTH FESTIVAL -- Otsego County Conservation Associa-tion 8th Annual Earth Festival. Information and Vendor Fair 11-3 in the gym. Empire Recycling with ConfiData Shredder from 11-2. Milford Central School, 42 W. Main St., Milford. Info, (607) 286-3349.

GARDEN DAY -- 8:30 a.m.-3 p.m. The Master Gardeners of Cornell Cooperative Extension Schoharie and Otsego Coun-ties host Spring Garden Day: workshops and presentations at the Milford Central School. Registration required $15. 42 W. Main St., Milford. Info, (607) 547-2536.

OPEN STUDIO -- 1-4 p.m. Smithy Center for the Arts pot-tery open studio. 55 Pioneer St., Cooperstown. Info, (607) 547-86714.

HYDE HALL -- 2-4 p.m. Hyde Hall volunteer informational meeting for anyone interested in becoming a volunteer at Hyde Hall Visitors Center in Glimmerglass State Park, 267 Glimmerglass State Park Rd., Cooperstown. Info, Larry Smith, (607) 547-5098.

BANQUET -- 5:30 p.m. 6th Ward Athletic Club of Oneonta 2nd annual Joe and Mary’s Memorial Banquet. Tickets $35, includes dinner. Cash bar. Reser-vation required. 22 W. Broadway, Oneonta. Info, (607) 436-9136.

LECTURE – 7-9 p.m. The Franklin Garden Club’s lecture series hosts Sondra Freckelton’s talk on Freckelton Flowers and Garden Still-Lifes: Creating a Garden Using Basic Principles of Art. 307 Main St., Franklin. Info, (607) 829-6404.

Sunday,April 14

BLUEBIRDS -- 2 p.m. Friends of the Village Library of Cooperstown present “All about Bluebirds, and More” giving Eastern Bluebird history, nest box management, more. Village Library meeting room, 22 Main St., Cooperstown. Info, (607) 547-8199.

MUSIC FEST -- 3 p.m. Afternoon of song, performers welcome. Refreshments after-wards. Hartwick United Method-ist Church, 3080 Cty.. Hwy. 11, Hartwick. Info, (607) 432-0397.

Monday,April 15

THERAPY DOGS -- 6:45 p.m. Friends of the Huntington Memorial Library bring Marjo-rie & Boyce Rogers to discuss training & preparation for dogs to become therapy dogs. 62 Chestnut St., Oneonta. Info, (607) 432-8096.

Tuesday,April 16

BUDDHISM -- 5:15 p.m., “The Buddhist View.” The Green Earth, 4 Market St., Oneonta. Info, (607) 829-3702.

RABIES -- 6-8 p.m. Compul-sory vaccination is required for all dogs and cats in Otsego County. Every dog and cat 3 months or older is required to be vaccinated. Worcester Town Barn, Worcester.

Wednesday,April 17

GOHS DINNER -- 6 p.m. The Greater Oneonta Historical So-ciety Annual Dinner and Special Meeting. Reservations required for the fundraiser dinner by 4/10. Red Caboose Restaurant, 214 Main St., Oneonta. Info, oneontahistory.org.

CHILD RESOURCES -- 6-8 p.m. Parenting Resource Center workshop “Living with 10-15 Year Olds.” Child care and refreshments provided. Registra-tion required. 277 Chestnut St.,

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FILM SERIES -- 7 p.m. “Sun-set Boulevard” sponsored by the The Friends of the Oneonta

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LECTURE -- 7 p.m. Logan Adsit presents “The Impact of Gas Hydrofracking: Voices from the Southern Tier” as Hartwick College’s 2013 H. Claude Hardy Chair in Sociology Lecture.

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Thursday,April 18

HEALTH BENEFITS -- 8 a.m. Health Benefit Exchange Countdown presentation. Learn

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Cars2006 Cobalt 2-door, Power Equip, 5-speed, 55k miles, Stk #622541 ............... Price $7,995...........Pmt $1092007 laCrosse CX Full Power 88k miles, Stk #922440................................. Price $9,495...........Pmt $1172010 forte sX Power Equip, Sunroof, 5-speed, Stk #930030 ......................... Price $13,795.........Pmt $1322007 altIMa 2.55 Full Power, 77k miles, Stk #622381.................................. Price $11,990.........Pmt $1582009 fusIon se Power Equip, 51k miles, Stk #582051 ................................. Price $12,895.........Pmt $1622010 soul Plus, Power Equip, 66k miles, Stk #622921................................ Price $13,195.........Pmt $1662008 avenger Power Equip, Sunroof, 62k miles, Stk #630271 ....................... Price $12,495.........Pmt $1662009 sentra 2.0s, Power Equip, 38k miles, Stk #C930270............................ Price $13,295.........Pmt $1682011 lanCer es Power Equip, 35K miles, Stk# R630551................................ Price $13,995.........Pmt $1762010 golf 2.5 l 2-dr Hatch, Power Equip, 14k miles, Stk #922650 .................. Price $13,995.........Pmt $1772010 oPtIMa lX Power Equip, 37k miles, Stk #C530371 ............................... Price $13,995.........Pmt $1792006 honda CIvIC eX, Power Equip, 72k miles, Stk #622911 ........................ Price $11,495.........Pmt $1782009 IMPala lt Full power, sunroof, 58k miles, Stk #620781 ......................... Price $14,495.........Pmt $1862010 soul Plus, Power Equip, 44k miles, Stk #C930190 .............................. Price $14,495.........Pmt $1862011 soul Plus, Power Equip, 5 speed, 30k miles, Stk #C921511 .................. Price $14,695.........Pmt $1872010 sentra sl, Power Equip, 44k miles, Stk #C930250 .............................. Price $14,995.........Pmt $1942010 sonata gls Power Equip, 54k miles, Stk #930120............................... Price $14,995.........Pmt $1942012 ChrYsler 200 Power Equip, 36k miles, Stk #R930330.......................... Price $15,495.........Pmt $1992009 altIMa 2.5s Power Equip, 28k miles, Stk #930180 .............................. Price $15,995.........Pmt $2092008 fusIon sel aWd Power Equip, 54k miles, Stk #630531......................... Price $15,995.........Pmt $2242011 oPtIMa lX, Full Power, 38k miles, Stk #C930231 ................................. Price $17,995.........Pmt $2372010 altIMa s, Power Equip, 21k miles, Stk #C521192................................. Price $17,995.........Pmt $2392010 lanCer gts full power, sunroof, 13k miles, Stk #830181 ...................... Price $17,995.........Pmt $2392010 altIMa 2.55 full power, 58k miles, Stk #830181 .................................. Price $14,995.........Pmt $2392009 MaXIMa sv Full Power, Lthr, 46k miles, Stk #C921670 .......................... Price $19,995.........Pmt $2722010 MaXIMa 3.5 sv Full Power, Lthr, 30k miles, Stk #C922140..................... Price $23,595.........Pmt $3272012 oPtIMa sX Full Power, Lthr, Nav, Sunroof, 6k miles, Stk #C921910........... Price $25,495.........Pmt $352

truCks • vans • suvs2003 durango sPort 4X4 Power Equip, 96k miles, Stk #922520 ................. Price $7,995...........Pmt $1322008 sedona lX Power Equip, 84k miles, Stk #922430 ................................ Price $10,995.........Pmt $1412006 dakota eXt st Auto, A/C, 4x4, 102k miles, Stk #621541 ...................... Price $10,495.........Pmt $1582007 traIlblazer ls Power Equip, 82k miles, Stk #922460 ........................ Price $11,995.........Pmt $1582006 equInoX lt aWd Power Equip, 84k miles, Stk #922490 ....................... Price $10,995.........Pmt $1682006 traIlblazer ls 4X4 Power Equip, 71k miles, Stk #922161 .................. Price $11,495.........Pmt $1782009 sorento lX Power Equip, 59k miles, Stk #C621101 ............................. Price $14,995.........Pmt $1942010 equInoX ls AWD, Power Equip, 58k miles, Stk #820581 ....................... Price $17,495.........Pmt $2332003 ranger suPer Cab 4X4 Power Equip, 88k miles, Stk #620412 ............. Price $10,995.........Pmt $2282010 rogue s aWd, Power Equip, 39k miles, Stk #C930100.......................... Price $17,395.........Pmt $2312011 lIbertY Power Equip, 48k miles, Stk #530331 .................................... Price $17,995.........Pmt $2372008 MarIner AWD, V6, Full Power, Lthr, 54k miles, Stk #922300 .................. Price $16,995.........Pmt $2412009 hYundaI santa fe aWd Limited, Full Pwr, 26k miles, Stk #522451 ...... Price $17,995.........Pmt $2412006 Murano sl AWD, Full Power, 78k miles, Stk #922260 .......................... Price $14,995.........Pmt $2472011 sorento eX AWD, Power Equip, remote start, 58k miles, Stk #C522371 ... Price $18,995.........Pmt $2522010 Murano sl AWD, Full Power, 67k miles, Stk #621920 .......................... Price $18,995.........Pmt $2562008 trIbeCa ltd aWd, Full Power, Lther, Sunroof, 36k miles, Stk #620961 .... Price $17,895.........Pmt $2562011 rogue sv aWd Full Power, 45k miles, Stk #C930390 ........................... Price $19,495.........Pmt $2602011 rogue s aWd Power Equip, 17k miles, Stk #C930380........................... Price $19,495.........Pmt $2602010 toWn & CountrY tourIng Full Power, 43k miles, Stk #930240 .......... Price $19,495.........Pmt $2642011 sorento lX AWD, Power Equip, 36k miles, Stk #922390 ....................... Price $19,795.........Pmt $2652012 grand Caravan sXt Power Equip, 20k miles, Stk #R930310 ............... Price $20,995.........Pmt $2832011 sorento eX aWd Power Equip, 40k miles, Stk #C922120 ..................... Price $20,995.........Pmt $2832010 ranger suPerCab sPort 4X4, Power Equip, 39k miles, Stk #621181 .. Price $20,995.........Pmt $2872011 sPortage lX aWd Power Equip, 16k miles, Stk #C530311.................... Price $21,495.........Pmt $2912008 lIbertY lIMIted Full Power, 15k miles, Stk #930351.......................... Price $19,995.........Pmt $2912010 frontIer CreW sv Power Equip, 39k miles, Stk #C621501 .................. Price $21,995.........Pmt $3032010 edge lIMIted AWD, Full Power, Lthr, Snrf, 50k miles, Stk #922370 ......... Price $23,495.........Pmt $3262010 trIbeCa tourIng Full Power, Lthr, 43k miles, Stk #922380.................. Price $23,495.........Pmt $3262011 tItan CreW sv Power Equip, 10k miles, Stk #C622361......................... Price $26,995.........Pmt $3742010 dodge raM 2500 slt Pwr Options, Snow Plow, 17k miles, Stk #922360 .... Price $27,995.........Pmt $396

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