One of my favorite events is happening this week. Our 4 day tournament in Historic Cooperstown, N.Y. If you are a hardcore fan and have never been there, you owe it to yourself to make the trek to get a major dose of baseball. I stopped going in the summer a few years ago, and have been going up only in September. The weather is still good, and the town is really quiet. No problem getting a table at a restaurant, parking at Doubleday Field, and a better rate for the hotels…..This trip will be very special for me, as I welcome most of my team mates from Southampton. But especially, my dear friends, Bobby Hillier, Gerry Schweitzer and Kevin Connors. We sat around a kitchen table one night about 7 years ago and wrote down on the backs of paper plates the revenue that could be produced at events like these. Gerry and Bobby were my partners for a little while in the begining stages of PATP. They already had huge business interests, and we didn’t last long together. I haven’t seen nearly as much of them as I would have liked these past 4 or 5 years, but this long weekend will bring us back together in a atmosphere filled with baseball, humor, and I am not ashamed to say love. Throw Ed Berkich in the mix and no matter how bad we stink on the field, we will have more fun than most…………And isn’t this, what it is really all about?
Have fun Scott. You have it right. It is all about the fun and playing the game you love with people you love.
Hi Scott, please give my best to all, especialy “Head a Hillier”. Wish I were there with all of you guys. Have fun. If you don’t hit a Homer by Saturday call me and all you will need is one pitch from me.lol
God Bless,
Mike
PS. Say to Bobby, ” Boots said to hit the pill” He will know.