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FOWLER/From A1SABR (the Society for American Baseball Re-search) of “a couple of hun-dred dollars” to pursue his interest. “I just thought it would be an article,” he said by telephone from Santa Fe. “I didn’t think it would be a book.”

But by the time he dove into his subject in 2010, more and more historical newspapers were appearing online, and Bud Fowler’s name cropped up in commu-nities across the land.

In the books of Larry Lester, historian of African-American baseball, in Tom Melville’s “Early Baseball and the Rise of the Na-tional League,” and in other accounts of the era, there

was Bud Fowler’s name.

“He seemed to be some-thing of a man of mystery,” said Laing. But one thing was certain:

He was a player – literally and figuratively – in early baseball, in Massachusetts, in Iowa, in Ohio and, yes, in Cooperstown, where Fowler, then John Jackson, son of a Main Street barber, spent his teen years.

By the time Laing was done, it was indeed a book. “Bud Fowler: Baseball’s

First Black Professional,” will be published by Mc-Farland & Co. at the end of June. “There was a rich history in which Bud Fowler was a key character,” the researcher had discovered.

In the run-up to pub-lication, the Village of Cooperstown, coinci-dentally, has decided to claim Fowler as one of its own. At 4 p.m. Saturday, April 20, the trustees will name the lane that runs from Chestnut Street to Doubleday Field “Fowler Way.” The gathering will move to Doubleday Field, where a plaque will be unveiled and John Thorn, the MLB’s official historian, will speak.

The next day at 10 a.m. in

the Hall of Fame’s Grand-stand Theater, Cooperstown Graduate Program students will discuss the results of a research project into Fowl-er/Jackson’s life. Mayor Jeff Katz said he is lining up some headliners – still to be announced – to round out the celebration.

Back to Santa Fe. In his research, Laing sketched out the beginnings of organized baseball in the South-west. Baseball was part of military life, and after the Civil War it was played by soldiers, white and black, throughout the region.

The completion of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe (the line to Santa Fe was a 17-mile spur, about the length of the spur north

from Cooperstown Junction) led to creation of a baseball league with teams in El Paso, Albuquerque and Las Vegas, and gave Fowler his Santa Fe opportunity.

Although the ball team failed, “he winds up in three months being ac-cepted enough in Santa Fe that he and a white partner bought out a barber shop” – the Capitol – “on Santa Fe Plaza,” said Laing.

As he traced Bud Fowl-er’s life (1858-1913), he discovered a man battling in the face of historical forces. Just as his career was tak-ing off, Reconstruction and the opportunity it offered blacks was ending. And, during the 1880s, leading up to the 1888 “Gentleman’s

Agreement” that blocked African-Americans from professional ball, Jim Crow tightened its grip.

But Fowler persevered where other equally good players, like Moses Fleet-wood Walker, gave up, and therein is the lesson of Laing’s research.

“I became more and more amazed at the irony of it,” said Laing. “Here’s a man who epitomizes every great American value, the stated value of the American movement – perseverance, the unwillingness to let ob-stacles stand in his way, his self-help approach.”

And, yet, he was barred by racism alone from pursu-ing his chosen profession at the highest level.

CUTS/From A1velopment. Her programs, aimed at helping young people with autism, are fac-ing a $900,000 cut, although expansion plans to open two houses in Sidney and one in Oxford by fall will cushion the impact, she said.

“Organizations that have already become very lean shouldn’t have to take as big of a cut,” said Lynne Sessions, communications director for Arc Otsego, which cares for the develop-

mentally disabled. Arc has kept administrative costs un-der 10 percent, and Spring-brook and Pathfinder, which cares for young people with Down Syndrome, reported similar records. Elsewhere, such costs have reached 15 percent.

While cutting funding, the state has increased man-dates, said Paul Landers, Pathfinder president/CEO, and that’s where the state might provide relief. “I don’t disagree with the man-

dates,” he said; for instance, to help limit fire hazards in group homes. “But they need to fund them.”

What followed began with a 2010 investigation in The Poughkeepsie Journal, which reported the fed-eral government had been overpaying for care of the developmentally disabled by a factor of four in nine institutions. In recent days, the feds reduced the daily payments from $5,000 to $1,200 per person.

GHOSTS/From A1personally experienced any ghostly encounters, he’s heard the stories. “Staff has told me that when they come in to open the house, they hear footsteps in the rear corridor,” he said. “They think there’s an intruder, but of course, no one’s there.”

When the cast of SyFy’s “Ghost Hunters” toured The Otesaga in 2010, they heard the stories of the haunted hall halfway up Otsego Lake, and when an open-ing came up in their New England filming schedule, they jumped at the chance to return to Glimmerglass’ ghostly environs.

And so they did, Sunday-

Thursday, March 24-28. “We’d given them the nature of stories so they could get a sense of what might be pos-sible,” Maney said. “They had a very productive visit.”

Ghost tours have been part of Hyde Hall’s pro-gramming since 2009. “They’re dramatic presenta-tions based on the lives of people who lived there,” said Maney. “So many of these stories go back to the 19th century.”

“Ghost Hunters” host Jason Hawes is the leader of the Atlantic Paranormal Society and makes it his mission to understand and explain seemingly unex-plainable disturbances. At The Otesaga, the ghost

hunters saw glowing orbs, vanishing shadows and sev-eral eerie noises and voices, including one that sounded like it was saying “Amy,” much to the fear of team member Amy Bruni.

“There’s nothing disturb-ing in an old house like this, but you never feel alone,” said Maney. “To me, that’s a comfort. There’s so much text, so much history to interpret.”

During the five-day Hyde Hall visit, the cast conduct-ed a “full investigation.” Though Maney, through an agreement with the TV show, couldn’t comment on what tools they used specifi-cally, the “Ghost Hunters” have a full range of equip-

ment, including thermal imaging cameras, voice recorders and a laser grid to detect movement. “I stayed up until 3:30 a.m. with them on Tuesday,” he said. “Most other nights, I was up until midnight. We lit the chandeliers” – Hyde Hall’s once-innovative 19th-centu-ry vapor chandeliers – “for them, and we really enjoyed having them here.”

And for Maney, one of the best parts of the show’s visit was getting to experi-ence parts of Hyde Hall even he’d never visited. “We went into the family crypt,” he said. “It was my first time, and it was a real honor.”

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