The Cooperstown Diner is a super quaint tiny little place that serves breakfast all day.
After breakfast we braved snow and hail (!?) to get to the Baseball Hall of Fame. The hall of fame is kind of uneven as a museum, but it does have some excellent parts, such as this cow.
My favorite sections were on the history of African-Americans in baseball (apparently some resort towns had Black baseball teams who at night all worked as waiters in the resort) and on women's professional baseball leagues.
Below: Patent application for the Enunciating Base, which for some reason never caught on.
Diagram explaining how to obtain catgut:
I like how the "how to obtain catgut diagram" is just a picture of a cat with the word "CUT" on it...lol! (But poor kitties!)
ReplyDeleteAnd I must ask, if you remember at all, what in the world was an enunciating base? Google has failed me!
Yeah, after I looked at that ad I had to doublecheck to make sure catgut doesn't really come from cats...but no kitties were harmed in the making of the baseball.
ReplyDeleteAn enunciating base was a base with a little bell in it that would ring when you touched the base to make it easier to tell whether a player was safe or not. I'm guessing it didn't work. You can see the patent application here:
http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&ved=0CE4QFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2Fpatents%2FUS171038.pdf&ei=2EipT8XuB43-8ATEk6TTAw&usg=AFQjCNHTGWV8OvggC-1inUrfTteE_gGOvA&sig2=rYfuxe0vyjf0EGubYZBd4g