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    Cooperstown Dreams Park

    3.4 (64 reviews)

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    Around the Horn Competition - Field 4

    Son's Review = 4 (The Ugly - the bathrooms by the end; the Bad - the food; the Good - everything else. My Review = 4 - The Ugly: Exiting Dreams Park after the Opening Ceremony and skills competition. This is the one time where everybody is there at the same time, and all leaving basically at the same time. Dreams Park should either bring in off-duty officers for traffic control and/or open up service entrances to exit. - The Bad: Concession pricing. It is all overpriced ($3 for a banana), to expansive for how much you get, or just tastes bad. No Drinking Fountains. The dugouts have them but the water flow is so low you basically have to kiss the dispenser to drink the water. Also, there are no drinking fountains anywhere that I saw for spectators. - The Good: Everything else. The staff is very friendly and helpful. The fields are in great condition. Also, since you are basically enclosed in the field there are great echos--and when a kid hits a home run it sounds awesome. Most fields are surrounded by hill so you can watch them from the outfield if you don't want to stay in the parent "dugout". The cost of the team photo package (approx. $104/player on our team) was well worth it. The cost to engrave balls & bats was also fair. Overall the facility has a great nostalgia vibe. Sponsor signage is limited to one small outside sign per field. Coaching Tips - Home Runs: probably a combination of 200' fields, minimal pitchers mounds, and Dreams Park supplies their own balls, Home Runs are the norm. You need at least a 5 run lead to feel a little comfortable - Defense: You do not want runners on base. When a home run comes you want the damage to be limited to just one run and not 3. Encourage you players to chase foul balls; practice double plays and baseball IQ scenarios, have your outfield 5-10' off the back wall--if it goes over their heads it's either a home run or bouncing off the wall and coming back to them - Offense: If it is not a home run it's a single unless the hit hugs the foul line. For the most part passed balls and wild pitches bounce back to the catcher so it is very difficult to steal home w/ a runner on 3rd. Remind your big hitters not to be a hero, and swing like normal--the home run(s) will come. Your players that are almost there in getting a home run in regular little league or tournament play will most likely get home runs here. - Know the Cooperstown specific rules. Something weird happened w/ a catcher interference call and balk call at the same time which after a rules review overturned a run scored by the opposing team. On the flip side at a later game the opposing coach forgot a team is allowed one "mulligan" balk call per game and our runners advanced on a first balk call. Parent Tips - Have the parents doing the play book, GameChanger, and highlights sheet sit next to each other because they will need each other's help - We made a swag bag of a lot of the checklist item that a few of the parents who drove up brought with them (i.e. towels, bed sheets, pillow covers, deodorant, games, etc.) - One of the dads volunteered to be a dugout dad and he took care of getting the ice, laundry service, and misc. small things for the coaches so the coaches could focus on the kids. The dugout dad did not spend the night. - The larger restaurants in the area can handle a party of 50 or 70. We met together for lunch before registration in order to all come into together. - We setup a sign-up genie to volunteer supply water, sport drinks, etc. for the boys and coaches. There are two Wal-Marts nearby and I picked up my items on the way into town. - Bring water and food for yourself and family. Though you see many signs saying you cannot bring outside food & drink I never saw it enforced, and if they do you can leave it in the car and go there when you need it. - If you have no one that is experienced with the playbook, I would recommend some people practice it with a recorded game on GameChanger, or follow allow with a live game. - The Closing Ceremony is not from 6-9, but 6 to 6:40. You have time to go some place for dinner. - Remind your player to flush and lift the toilet seat up if all they're doing is peeing. My son's take-away for others is go to the bathrooms before 7am because you never know what you're going to get after. As for me, I used a single person bathroom after a player came out and the toilet wasn't flushed, there was pee all over the seat, and I had to clean it up.

    Arley L.

    It's a nice park. Very well taken care off, the fields are in good condition. The grounds crew does a good job up keeping the fields even I wet and rainy conditions. The parking lot is kind of a mess, fills up quick, tight spots and easy for someone to hit your rental car. The concessions stands are nothing spectacular, prices are definitely steep. The fields all have boards around the entire field and you can only watch from the selected spectator area, making it hard to watch any other game or any of the skills competitions. Overall it was a neat experience though.

    Bridget H.

    Spent a weekend here and had a mixed experience. First the fields are incredibly scaled down, 200 feet to the back fence. The conditions were hit and miss. The opening ceremony ran almost 2.5 hours....could easily be cut to one hour. The sound system was a mess, in and out of working on ceremony day. Typical overpriced concessions. The place for spectators to sit and watch the games are pathetic. For what the teams and families pay to be there, you'd think they had something better than cheap plastic chairs. Parking at opening ceremony is a nightmare. Plan on getting there well over an hour before the opening ceremony if you want a halfway decent parking spot and seat in the stadium. The parking lot is a mess in general though. Came out after a game and someone had hit and run our rental car, damaging the back. The umpires here are hit and miss, very inconsistent. I think it can be a good experience, but there is several areas for room for improvement.

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    Great place! Super fun for kids. Food could be better though. Totally recommend Cooperstown Dreams Park.

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    An amazing place for kids to compete and become a part of something huge!!!..be sure to go.

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    Theft is prevalent here. Watch out! Your things will all be stolen from your room. Bunks do not have locks and staff doesn't care.

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    NorthStar Sports

    NorthStar Sports

    5.0(2 reviews)
    86.6 mi

    I signed up for a class by using there App called "NorthStar Sports". My session (which was 30…read moreminutes long) usually they are an hour and fifteen minutes long but in the early mornings they have classes that are shorter. It was for REAL. Jerry, and the rest of his team took notice of what I could and could not do and pushed me to my limits. The Northstar team is very professional, while also being friendly. It is a fun environment with music playing as they train you. They have every ball imaginable and two basketball hoops in the facility. The best way to describe a workout is that they work many different muscles. At one point I was on the treadmills, then on an erg machine, then lifted light weights for reps that worked my back and finished it off with some plate pushes. They also offer a shake for once you are done with the class. Shakes cost $4, strawberry was awesome.

    NorthStarSports is run by and staffed with certified (college degree) sports trainers. The people…read morework with the entire person; Physical, mental, and nutrition. Kids from all sports and ages (I have seen 10 yr olds looking to advance in their sport to those about to try out at pro ball camps) come here and the training sessions are tweaked to the athlete's particular needs. They worry about every participant equally, regardless of their age or skill level and go to athletes' competitions to support them. Jordan has come to the kids' swim practice to observe and talk/learn from their coaches so as to understand their needs. These are an outstanding group of people committed to helping people become their best version of themselves mentally and physically!

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    5.0(1 review)
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    Kickball, or what I tend to call adult kickball, is a lot of fun. I've now played in the WAKA…read morekickball leagues in Albany since 2010. It was initially for something to occupy my time one night a week to do something locally. For those who follow my Yelp reviews, you can tell that I spend a chunk of my time out of town (by choice), but I wanted an outlet within my home area to have fun, meet new people, etc. Kickball, with its 8 week regular season plus playoffs, seemed to be a good fit for me, and some friends of mine that live in North Carolina play in an adult kickball league down there and subliminally encouraged me to get into the sport. Some people sign up for the kickball league individually as a free agent to be placed on a team or as part of a small group and get placed on a team that needs the players. Other people will sign up as part of a full team. In any respect, if you want to play kickball, there will be a place for you. Some people who play kickball are natural athletes, but others (such as myself) are able to play even with not much natural athletic ability and still enjoy themselves. By design, adult kickball is a social sport, and after the games (which usually take about an hour from start to finish), teams are able to go to the specially designated kickball bar to socialize with players from their team as well as players from other teams. Kickball players have been known to play a relaxing game of flip cup while at the bar as well. The long or short of the matter is, if you're looking for a fun way to occupy some of your time, besides reading some awesome Yelp reviews, I think that WAKA Kickball is where its at.

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