Cooperstown Dreams Park

Cooperstown Dreams Park is a youth baseball tournament, that is held in Cooperstown, NY. Children aged 12 or younger stay in clubhouses at the field complex for 7 days, the last couple of days being days for playoffs. Each week during the summer 96 teams come and play in the tournament, the winners receiving a trophy. All players, coaches and umpires are inducted into the American Youth Baseball Hall of Fame and receive the coveted youth hall of fame ring.

Cooperstown Dreams Park is the chance of a lifetime for young boys who love the game of baseball. It is a time to play the game in the historic village of Cooperstown, BOND with your family, and hangout with your friends. The cool thing for kids is parents are not allowed in their sleeping and actvity center (the baseball village), only outside of this area where the fields are located. The kids are given freedom that most of them are not used to and they take it in stride. Each team plays seven random play-in games and then seeded into a 96-team bracket. The 06-team single elimination tournament starts Wednesday afternoon and continues to Thursday morning with the Sweet 16, Elite 8, Final 4 and a culmination of fireworks with the weekly championship game.

The experience at Cooperstown Dreams Park is mainly not baseball: it is the hall of fame, the pin trading, and the freedom. the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum (no affiliation with MLB) is what kids who love baseball can spend hours looking through and have to be ushered out just to leave. It is basically a baseball museum that has too much history to actually look through completely.

I have to go now but I will finish this excerpt on the greatest place on earth.