After a quick stop to check into our Bed & Breakfast, we walked about ten minutes until we were right in the middle of the town. Everything around us was baseball this or that. The Triple Play Cafe, Doubleday Cafe, The Home Plate (where we had lunch), and a different gift shop in every direction, all boasting baseball paraphernalia at its best (or sometimes at its tackiest).
Seriously, these pumpkins were HUGE! Most of them were very deformed, and certainly nothing that you would carve a Jack-o-Lantern from, but WOW, talk about massive. We were there right when the judges were going around putting harnesses on each pumpkin, so that the crane could lift it up and weigh it. Really.
So how much do you think these pumpkins weighed? The largest one we saw on the scale was 420.5 pounds. However, I found some other pictures from the festival online and it looks like the ones we saw weren't even close to the heaviest ... 
Oh, but that's not it! The winner, weighing in at 1,248 pounds ... 
I guess that's what you have to do in a small town like Cooperstown. It certainly was a sight to behold though! Not one that I need to go back to, but definitely a once-in-a-lifetime experience. The one thing that we did miss happened on Sunday morning after we left ... apparently they hollow out the giant pumpkins and have canoe races inside of them around the lake!! One guy at our B&B told us that last year someone got stuck - upside down in the water - inside of his. So this year, they had paramedics on hand. Wow!
We did take a look around Doubleday Field, where they have games most of the time, however, since it was a rainy day, no games were scheduled while we were there (sad)! The seats inside are all wooden, and its definitely got a lot of character.
Up next ... The Hall of Fame! This little statue of "The Sandlot Kid" helped put us in the mood:
Before we made it to the Hall of Fame, and because we knew we would be there for the better part of the day, we stopped at the Cooperstown PumpkinFest. The Fifth Annual, in fact. We'd read about it online prior to our trip, and were very excited for it. Now I don't want to say that we were completely disappointed, but it certainly didn't live up to the expectations we had imagined in our minds. The festival was in the Doubleday Field parking lot, and consisted of a few tables set up under tents. There was maybe one or two tables with food - which was basically little loaves of pumpkin bread (not really sure, nothing looked enticing enough to taste). The "craft fair" was another little table with a few little items displayed (again, nothing that drew us in). I didn't see any roasted pumpkin seeds (sad). But, what we DID see was the giant pumpkins. They were, after all, very hard to miss ...
Seriously, these pumpkins were HUGE! Most of them were very deformed, and certainly nothing that you would carve a Jack-o-Lantern from, but WOW, talk about massive. We were there right when the judges were going around putting harnesses on each pumpkin, so that the crane could lift it up and weigh it. Really.So how much do you think these pumpkins weighed? The largest one we saw on the scale was 420.5 pounds. However, I found some other pictures from the festival online and it looks like the ones we saw weren't even close to the heaviest ... Oh, but that's not it! The winner, weighing in at 1,248 pounds ... I guess that's what you have to do in a small town like Cooperstown. It certainly was a sight to behold though! Not one that I need to go back to, but definitely a once-in-a-lifetime experience. The one thing that we did miss happened on Sunday morning after we left ... apparently they hollow out the giant pumpkins and have canoe races inside of them around the lake!! One guy at our B&B told us that last year someone got stuck - upside down in the water - inside of his. So this year, they had paramedics on hand. Wow!We did take a look around Doubleday Field, where they have games most of the time, however, since it was a rainy day, no games were scheduled while we were there (sad)! The seats inside are all wooden, and its definitely got a lot of character.Up next ... The Hall of Fame! This little statue of "The Sandlot Kid" helped put us in the mood:
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