Hi Sean.....so, you're asking why the Cooperstown Show was not as good the Summer Ripken was inducted ?
Cooperstown is really a village (pop. only 1800+), and the usual HOF weekend crowd ranges from 15,000 to 30,000 people. Cooperstown (and the surrounding area
can handle that amount of people) and they certainly have since I've first started going up there in 1985.
However, the Summer that Ripken was inducted, 60,000 people were in Cooperstown. It was unreal, Main St. was shut down, the parking situation was horrendous,
and many of the people that came to the Show were just curiosity seekers (who interfered with the real collectors).
Indeed, some of my best Shows over the years there were when 15,000 to 20,000 people were in town. This was also true for the other Dealers at these Shows.
TED Z
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