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RECREATION

Oneonta's various youth programs and acres of parks and community property make recreation accessible to all members of the family. Boy and Girl Scouts ages 8-21 number over 5,000! The YMCA offers swimming, volleyball, handball, basketball, gymnastic programs, nautilus, aerobics, nursery school, after-school programs, senior activities and camp. Programs for all members of the family at all ages are ongoing. The Oneonta Boys and Girls Club, which has worked with area youth since 1947, boasts not only a fine gymnasium and state-of-the-art fitness equipment, but also offers a wide range of programs. The club is open to youth ages 7-15. For information you are invited to call 432-1133 or stop in at 70 River Street.

Our area is blessed with an abundance of fish and game. Two golf courses are in the immediate area and another half dozen are within a 10 minute drive. Bowling is available at a fully equipped facility on the southside and club lanes are scattered throughout the city. Most major national organizations and clubs have branches in the Oneonta area, providing our community with a wide range of valued service and entertainment.

Each Memorial Day weekend over 50,000 people visit Oneonta for the General Clinton Canoe Regatta, the longest flat water canoe race in the world!

 
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PARKS AND ATTRACTIONS

Neahwa Park and Wilber Park offer hundreds of acres for recreational activity within the city limits. Wilber Park has a swimming pool, tennis courts, picnic areas, open fields, and quiet wooded trails for hiking. Neahwa Park serves as the community's center for league sports in baseball, softball and soccer, and has picnic areas, tennis courts, swimming pool and ice skating in the winter. Neahwa Park is also the site of Damaschke Field, home of the Oneonta Tiger's Minor League Baseball club. The Tigers are the Detroit affiliate of the single-A New York-Penn League. Through the history of baseball in Oneonta, over 100 players have passed through Damaschke on their way to the majors, including Ken Brett, Willie McGee, Curtis Granderson, Amos Otis, Bernie Williams, Don Mattingly and even quarterback John Elway of Denver Broncos fame. Through the years Oneonta has become known as one of the best places in the country to groom young hopefuls.

If there isn't enough baseball for you here in Oneonta, the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum is located 25 miles to the north in Cooperstown, with exhibits that offer insight into the history and tradition of our national pastime. Doubleday Field in Cooperstown, home of baseball, is the site for the annual Hall of Fame Game and half the MACS' home games. The MACS (Milford Athletic Club) is the oldest continuously active baseball organization in the country, and since 1942 have never had a losing season.

Oneonta's National Soccer Hall of Fame opened the doors to its first exhibit in 1982 in the Wilber Mansion and moved to its current location in Oneonta's West End in June 1999. In 1989, ground was broken for the Wright National Soccer Campus. The 66-acre campus houses the museum, and seven regulation size playing fields. For the future, plans have been proposed for an outdoor stadium with a 3,000 seat capacity, lodging for 150, and an indoor arena with two playing surfaces for youth, high school and college tournaments.

In acknowledgment of its leadership role in the promotion of Soccer in America, Oneonta was a unanimous choice of the United States Soccer Federation to be the site of the Soccer Hall of Fame. Heritage, enthusiasm, commitment, easy access (I-88, I-90), and the natural appeal of the region all provide rife opportunity for development of this national/international facility as a centerpiece to the continuing maturation of America's 130 year old soccer tradition.
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