As fans all across baseball were focused on Derek Jeter’s last home game, the folks in Cooperstown are thinking about the day the retiring New York Yankees captain gets elected into baseball’s Hall of Fame.
“Every induction weekend has its own set of characteristics, and when you’re looking ahead to a guy like Derek Jeter, we’ll have to plan for large crowds,” Hall president Jeff Idelson said. “The guy affected and touched so many people that everyone is going to want to share in that special day of July 2020.”
And with Yankee Stadium being a mere 186 mile drive down I-87, you better believe the village of Cooperstown is already preparing.
“In 2007, when Cal Ripken Jr. was inducted, we had 80,000 people,” Cooperstown Mayor Jeff Katz says looking ahead to 2020. “You can say maybe it will be 100,000. Maybe a 120,000? What if it’s 200,000? Every ten or twenty thousand is a huge amount.”
200,000 people? Yikes.
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