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Fall classic: Cooperstown, New York--now the nation's baseball shrine--was once home base for James Fenimore Cooper. (Locations).(Brief Article)

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Date: 20020901
Author:Kloberdanz, Kristin

SINCE THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE NATIONAL BASEBALL HALL OF Fame in 1939, Cooperstown, New York, has been known as a symbol of America's favorite pastime. But before it became Baseball Central, James Fenimore Cooper immortalized this tiny village at the headwaters of the Susquehanna River as the ideal pioneer town in some of this country's earliest fiction. Coonskins and hides may have given way to caps and jerseys, but Cooperstown is still a well-preserved slice of America that would be recognizable to the town's most famous citizen.

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