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| | Cooperstown -- Encyclopædia Britannica |
 | | village in Otsego and Middlefield towns (townships), seat (1791) of Otsego county, central New York, U.S. Cooperstown is situated at the southern tip of Otsego Lake, where the Susquehanna River emerges, 38 miles (61 km) southeast of Utica. |
 | | There were three inductees into the Hall of Fame at Cooperstown, N.Y.--Steve Carlton, a pitcher for the Philadelphia Phillies; Phil Rizzuto, shortstop for the Yankees; and Leo Durocher, who had managed... |
 | | He was born on June 26, 1819, in Ballston Spa, N.Y. He graduated from the military academy at West Point in 1842 and was an artillery officer in the Mexican War from 1846 to 1848 and in the Seminole War in Florida from 1856 to 1858. |
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