Remember Dan, wait til induction week. Cooperstown is like an hour away from Canastota. Some years we go there a day before HOF.
Here's some stuff I got while at induction week this year.
http://i188.photobucket.com/albums/z104/Erikk99/100_6370.jpg
DAMN, that is AWESOME!
John your correct any other week its a dissapointing trip.
But once you go to induction week you are probably hooked. This will be my 5th straight year.
I hope to go this year, too...
John your correct any other week its a dissapointing trip.
But once you go to induction week you are probably hooked. This will be my 5th straight year.
by the way, I mean during indiction week...I would imagine it might be somewhat boring at any other time of the year but they ALL say that induction week is LITERALLY a boxing fans DREAM...
I've never been there before and I'm contemplating the four and a half hour drive. Has anyone been or knows if it's any good?
Dan S, I haven't been there yet but...EVERY SINGLE PERSON I know who has ever been there tells me it is AWESOME...Marlon Starling went one year around 2002...and he tells me all the time that he will never miss one...my friends said he was walking one day and he ended up walking with B-Hops to McDonalds, just out of the blue, like they were good friends...then he ran the road race and was running right along side Hopkins...
Cool thanks for the pictures. I think I'll plan to make a trip there and a few other places, to make it worth it.
Thanks for the responses.
Remember Dan, wait til induction week. Cooperstown is like an hour away from Canastota. Some years we go there a day before HOF.
Here's some stuff I got while at induction week this year.
http://i188.photobucket.com/albums/z104/Erikk99/100_6370.jpg
http://i188.photobucket.com/albums/z104/Erikk99/100_6367.jpg
2009 Inductee Brian Mitchell lecture
http://i188.photobucket.com/albums/z104/Erikk99/H09Mitchelllecture.jpg
http://i188.photobucket.com/albums/z104/Erikk99/H09Mitchelllecture6.jpg
Billy Backus & John H. Stracey lecture
http://i188.photobucket.com/albums/z104/Erikk99/H09-BackusandStraceylecture.jpg
Mark Breland lecture
http://i188.photobucket.com/albums/z104/Erikk99/h09brelandlecture2.jpg
Its worth the drive if you go for induction week wich is the second week of June. The also have 1 or 2 other events the rest of year. But the Hall itsefl is small and can be seen in a half hour. I would say plan ahead and go next June & it will be worth the 4 or 5 hour drive. I fly from Cali every year for it.
Here are a few pics from 2 weeks ago. These are from rising star event on Friday night.
Lennox
http://i188.photobucket.com/albums/z104/Erikk99/h09LLNORS3.jpg
The Punisher
http://i188.photobucket.com/albums/z104/Erikk99/h09PWNORS.jpg
Manny
http://i188.photobucket.com/albums/z104/Erikk99/h09EmStewardNORS.jpg
Bute
http://i188.photobucket.com/albums/z104/Erikk99/h09-Buteris.jpg
I've never been there before and I'm contemplating the four and a half hour drive. Has anyone been or knows if it's any good?
Its pretty cool. I dunno if its worth the drive. I went with my old man, when we are up at Syracuse for a basketball tourney.