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SPECIAL
AIRLINE
OFFERS
If
your team is planning on flying to
Cooperstown Dreams Park
for one of the tournament weeks you will
be able to save by working
with the
Dreams
Park Travel
Desk!
For more details click
DREAMS
PARK TRAVEL DESK
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2006
TOURNAMENT
SERVICES
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- 24-Hour medical and
first aid staff.
- 24-Hour
security.
- Free admission to all
games.
- Free family and guest
parking.
- On-site arcade for
teams, located in Baseball
Village.
- Cooperstown Dreams Park
Clothing and Souvenir
Shop.
- Cooperstown Dreams Park
Official Bat Shop
- Group and family photos
are available.
- Food is available at
all Cooperstown Dreams Park
concession stands.
- Chicken barbecues on
Thursdays and
Saturdays.
- Train ride on the
Scenic & Historic
Cooperstown & Charlotte
Valley Railroad provided by
the Leatherstocking Railway
Historical Society (guest
tickets are available, for a
nominal cost, in the Clothing
and Souvenir Shop).
- Free shuttle bus from
Dreams Park to downtown
Cooperstown.
- An independent laundry
service for teams and umpires
is available.
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Find out more about the Scenic &
Historic Cooperstown & Charlotte
Valley Railroad
For more information & a free
brochure you can write the Leatherstocking
Railway Historical Society, PO Box 681,
Oneonta, NY 13820-0681 or call
607-432-2429
Parents and
Guests can ride the train from Cooperstown
Dreams Park to Cooperstown and return.
Weekly Passes are available at the Dreams
Park Clothing & Souvenir Shop for only
$8.00 per week!
Click
here and visit the LRHS Web
Site
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PARENTS
If you or
someone in your family would like to sing
or play "The Star Spangled Banner"
or "Take Me Out To The Ball Game"
at the Opening or Closing Ceremonies
please have your Head Coach or Manager
sign the person up upon arrival for your
Team's Registration. Cooperstown Dreams
Park reserves the right to audition
individuals and groups and will
make every effort to accomodate the
requests.
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IMPORTANT
PIN TRADING
INFORMATION
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Pin Trading has become a
tradition for teams, umpires and
parents at Cooperstown Dreams
Park. Many teams have custom-made
lapel pins, while others utilize
pins from their communities that
are provided by sponsors. The
trading of pins provides all
campers an extra opportunity to
interact. Enjoy the fun of pin
trading!
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The
Cooperstown
Pins Company can
assist you in designing and
producing pins for trading. As
the official pin maker of
Cooperstown Dreams Park,
Cooperstown Pins offers top
quality pins at a reasonable
price.
Click
COOPERSTOWN
PINS
for
the
best deal on 2006 Team Pins!
You can also call Cooperstown
Pins at
1-866-LEADOFF
(1-866-532-3633)
Prior to
attending the Park, please ensure
all pins are removed from their
individual plastic bags.
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If you have any
questions please call us at
704-630-0050.
We will be glad to assist
you.
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2006
LAUNDRY
SERVICE
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Cooperstown Dreams Park has
contracted with Glimmerglass
Laundry, an independent service,
to provide laundry service for
campers, coaches and umpires
during the season. The laundry
service is optional. However,
based on the extremely positive
response from parents, and the
professional service provided by
Glimmerglass Laundry,
we
strongly recommend this
service.
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DO
NOT SEND YOUR LAUNDRY PAYMENTS TO
COOPERSTOWN DREAMS PARK!
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Pricing
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- Players: $20.00 per
week.
- Coaches: $15.00 per
week.
- Umpires: $10.00 per
week.
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Laundry
Service for Players and Coaches
includes
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- Wash, dry and fold
service.
- Uniforms, personal
clothing and towels.
- Sunday, Monday,
Tuesday, and Wednesday
nights.
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Laundry
Service for Umpires
includes
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- Wash, dry and fold
service.
- Uniforms, personal
clothing and towels.
- Sunday, Monday,
Tuesday, and Wednesday
nights.
- PRESSING SERVICE FOR
UMPIRE UNIFORMS IS
INCLUDED.
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Benefits
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- Clean uniforms each
day.
- Clean personal clothing
and towels each day.
- Convenient - eliminates
need for parents every evening
or early morning in the
Laundromat.
- Reasonably priced -
costs little more than doing
it yourself in a
Laundromat.
- Overnight service -
late night pickup; delivery of
clean uniforms in time for the
first game of the
day.
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HOW
TO SIGN-UP
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The Team Contact is
responsible for signing up
individuals or teams during
Saturday registration with a
Glimmerglass Laundry
representative. This
representative will be available
to answer questions and for
sign-up.
Payment
is due at time of sign-up. Do not
send your laundry payments to
Cooperstown Dreams Park.
Acceptable forms
of payment are cash, certified
checks, bank checks and
travelers' checks. Personal
checks and team checks are NOT
acceptable forms of
payment.
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FREE
or INEXPENSIVE THINGS TO DO IN
COOPERSTOWN
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- Relax by Lake Otsego, the source
of the Susquehanna River. (Free) Enjoy
a picnic lunch in Lake Front Park at
the foot of Pioneer St. Takeout
lunches/snacks/dinners are available at
most local restaurants.
- Watch a baseball game at
historic Doubleday Field. (Free) Games
are scheduled all day long.
- Play on Kid City playground
after 12:00 p.m. (Free) Located behind
elementary school on Walnut St.
(Trolley stops there!) (Free)
- Ride the trolley. ($2.00 adults,
$1.00 kids - fare is honored all
day)
- Visit local Art Galleries:
Smithy-Pioneer Gallery (Pioneer St.),
Leatherstocking Brush & Palette
Club (Pioneer St.), and Cooperstown Art
Association (Main Street). (Free)
- Visit the Farmers' Market in
Pioneer Alley behind Key Bank,
Saturdays during the summer & early
fall. (Free)
- Attend the Wednesday Night
Cooperstown Community Band Concert at
the Otesaga Hotel, Lake Street, 8:30
p.m.-9:30 p.m. (July/August) (Free)
- Tour Goodyear Swamp Sanctuary
(Behind the Opera House on Rte 80).
(Free)
- Visit the breweries: Brewery
Ommegang on River Road. ($4.00
admission credited toward purchases)
and Cooperstown Brewing Company
($2.00), East Main Street,
Milford.
- Tour Cooperstown Bat Company on
Route 28N in Fly Creek at 10:30 a.m.
and 3:00 p.m. Monday-Friday in June,
July and August. Retail store open from
9:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. (Free)
- Take self-guided walking tour of
Cooperstown and see area landmarks and
historic homes. Maps available at
Information kiosk & Chamber Office.
(Maps - $0.50 each)
- Swim at Three Mile Point (Rte 80
- West Lake Road)-$5.00 per person;
Fairy Springs (Rte 31, East Lake
Rd.)-$5.00 per person; Glimmerglass
State Park (Rte 31, East Lake
Road)-$7.00 per car.
- Rent a fishing pole for $10.00
or a kayak or canoe for $20.00 at Sam
Smiths Boatyard 607-547-2543.
- Visit Fly Creek Cider Mill
(Route 28N to flashing light in Fly
Creek, turn right, follow signs). Open
June-December. 9:00 a.m.-6:00 p.m.
daily. (Free)
- Attend an Oneonta Tigers minor
league game. Adults $4.00, Children
$3.00.
- Buy a day pass for the Clark
Sports Center. Olympic swimming pool,
running track, racquet ball and
basketball courts, climbing walls,
bowling alleys. Children under 18 must
have waiver slip signed by a parent.
Adults $8.00, Children under 18,
$4.00.
- Visit the fallow deer on
Susquehanna Avenue off Rte 28S, just
before the Clark Sports
Center.
- Free concerts in the Park in
Sharon Springs.
- Ride the Scenic & Historic
Cooperstown & Charlotte Valley
Railroad. Full week passes are
available (at the Cooperstown Dreams
Park Clothing and Souvenir Shop) for
parents and family members of the
Dreams Park for only $5.00 -
Cooperstown Dreams Park to Cooperstown
and return. You can also enjoy the
relaxing, full 10-mile round trip, one
and a half hour ride up the beautiful
Upper Susquehanna River Valley from
Milford to Cooperstown Dreams Park to
Cooperstown and return. Leatherstocking
Railway Historical Society 607-432-2429
or check out their website at
www.lrhs.com.
This
list is provided by the Cooperstown
Chamber of Commerce and is subject to
change without notice.
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THE
DREAMS PARK
EXPERIENCE
While promoting a high
caliber of play, our goal is to have young
players experience the purity of baseball
as it was meant to be.
- By stepping up to the
plate, regardless of outcome, all
players leave with a sense of pride,
dignity and accomplishment.
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THE
MISSION OF COOPERSTOWN DREAMS
PARK
...
The mission is to
provide a cultural and life enriching
experience for young boys and girls who
love the game.
- By visiting the Village of
Cooperstown and playing in the
legendary home of baseball.
- By meeting and playing against
their peers from around the country and
the world.
- By reaching within themselves to
fulfill their ultimate dream.
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Just
Imagine ...
Being a part of History!
Each player and coach will be
immortalized by being inducted
into the prestigious American
Youth Baseball Hall of Fame where
they will be enshrined. As a part
of the Cooperstown Dreams Park
experience, your team members
will be awarded the coveted
American Youth Baseball Hall of
Fame ring - like the champions
before them - and granted
membership into this
distinguished baseball club. All
Cooperstown Dreams Park
participants share this great
honor.
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Just
Imagine
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In the town where baseball
began ... your place in history
with baseball's greats. At no
other time in the history of
youth baseball has there ever
been an invitational tournament
quite like Cooperstown Dreams
Park, with its unique baseball
atmosphere ... where baseball
present meets the traditional
values of baseball past. Take a
step back in time ... with
barnstormers of baseball past.
Fields cut from the same pastures
that have given life to the
magical myth of Abner Doubleday.
Teams travel far and wide to play
on these sacred fields.
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Dreams
Really Do Come True
Cooperstown Dreams Park offers
today's youth a chance to fulfill
childhood dreams. We trust you
will agree this is an opportunity
of a lifetime. If you love
baseball and kids, Cooperstown
Dreams Park is the place to be.
It is a must for America's
Youth.
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Parents: If you need
additional information please contact your
Team Contact.
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