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- Updated: July 23, 2016
COOPERSTOWN, N.Y. — Set off from Cooperstown’s main drag by a cluster of picturesque streets on one side, from Otsego Lake by a rich green lawn on the other, Otesaga Hotel is this weekend’s social center for Baseball Hall of Famers. That includes Hall of Fame-elect Mike Piazza, who has just hours to go before his induction into Cooperstown at 1:30 p.m. ET on Sunday, with coverage beginning on MLB Network and MLB.com at 11 a.m.
Piazza was whiling away some hours at the hotel lounge on Thursday night when a group of Hall of Famers in attendance told him he had to perform. Piazza picked up a pair of drumsticks and started playing with the band. No, the Hall of Famers told him. Sing. So Piazza attempted to channel his inner Jon Bon Jovi.
Jokingly, the bartender approached Piazza’s wife, telling her to get him back behind the drum set as quickly as possible.
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“Even my drumming is underwhelming,” Piazza said, laughing. “But I think it’s a lot better than my singing.”
It was the type of scene that can only unfold in Cooperstown, and only on Hall of Fame weekend, when …
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