Cooperstown, New York is a wonderful little town. Look at this place! Give me this lake, a small sailboat, some beer and I’d gladly spend the whole summer there.
But Cooperstown, New York has absolutely nothing — NOTHING — to do with the history of baseball.
You know what does have something to do with the history of baseball? The campus of Northeastern University, which hosted the first World Series game ever played at the late Huntington Avenue Baseball Grounds.
It has never ceased to amaze me that, in a city packed with tourists leading bored kids from one historic site to another, this cool-as-shit statue hides in plain sight, almost completely ignored. Though, in truth, I kind of like it that way. It is legitimately haunting to stand at that plate in an isolated grove with no one else around, staring into Cy Young’s eyes, knowing that the very dirt you’ve dug your feet into was once the epicenter of the American sporting world.
If you’re around Huntington Ave today, the day of Game 1 of the 2025 World Series, take a minute to go check it out and hang out with some ghosts.
Talk about what you want and be good to one another.
