Baeball HOF Weekend abscence
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Hall of fame induction weekend.
Newschannel2's chelsea sherrod reports from the village.
Chelsea: the baseball hall of fame induction ceremony has been held every year since 1961.
This weekend should have been the induction ceremony of the 2020 hall of fame class.
But instead it feels a lot different in cooperstown.
Nats: induction weekend is some thing everyone looks forward to so it is extremely different this year.
The 2019 hall of fame induction ceremony attracted about 55,000 fans to cooperstown, bringing in millions of dollars in revenue.
Something that the village will be without this year.
Mayor ellen tillapaugh: i can't speak to individual businesses you know what their bottom line is but i know our businesses have been profoundly impacted.
Businesses like tin bin alley.
Lori fink: prior to this year we would pour about 240 pounds of fudge in preparation of induction weekend but this year obviously we're not anywhere near that.
Baseball fans from the region walked main street in cooperstown thinking about what should have been.
Humphrey stuyvesant: derek jeter although i'm a mets fan is probably the greatest shortstop to ever play the game.
Anthony incampo: we love cooperstown so we figured it come up anyway and we've never seen cooperstown this empty which is sad but it's awesome to see.
Kristen marchiole: it's different people are wearing masks but we're still here we're going to the museum and we're still celebrating.
While we have to wait unitl next year for the induction ceremony, fans can still celebrate the 2020 class virtually.
Jon shestakofsky: for each of our four members of the class of 2020 we are holding a facebook live programming and it comes in the form of a round table with other hall of fame members.
On sunday we're going to wrap it up the day the induction what had taken place with a conversation with class of 2020 hall of famer derek jeter and his yankees hall of fame to make mariano rivera and joe torre.
Next year's hall of fame induction ceremony will be bigger and better.
It will be the first since 1949 to combine multiple classes of elective.
Reporting from cooperstown i am chelsea sherrod newschannel2 we've watched the construction