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    4.7 (3 reviews)
    Closed 10:00 am - 5:00 pm
    Updated 2 months ago

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    Where It All Began Bat - This is the place to buy customized baseball bats (full-sized and miniature) in Cooperstown, NY

    Where It All Began Bat

    4.0(4 reviews)
    0.1 mi

    Let's be honest, most of downtown Cooperstown, NY is a gigantic tourist trap. It's very much like…read morethe town of Niagara Falls. They have a captive audience of bus tours and summer tourists that are visiting the Baseball Hall of Fame, and so the streets are lined with baseball-themed cafés, gift shops, and the usual touristy stuff. They do have some cool local farmers' markets on the weekends, but most everything else is focused on the baseball fans. Guilty as charged... my best friend is a huge New York Yankees fan, and he asked me to bring him back "something" from Cooperstown. As my Dad and I were walking back towards our car we spotted the Where It All Began Bat Company along Main Street. I looked through the front windows and saw displays of full-sized and miniature baseball bats that had been painted and personalized for the various Major League Baseball teams. I went into the shop and looked over the full-sized Rawlings and Louisville Slugger souvenir baseball bats all of which can be personalized by their on-site laser engraver with up to three lines of text. They also have miniature bats, whether bearing a MLB logo or a Cooperstown-themed logo, and those can be painted and also personalized. I got my friend an 18" miniature baseball bat, painted Yankees blue, and engraved with his name and the MLB logo. They were able to show me samples of finished bats so that I'd know what to expect. I was able to pay for the bat, the engraving, and the shipping down to South Florida, which meant one less thing to lug around in my luggage! Glen got the bat within a week, and he was thrilled with this unique gift and conversation starter. His wife has informed me that he hung up over his desk at home, and that she occasionally catches him standing in front of a mirror taking practice swings. Classy gift.....SCORE!!!

    Rude service. I walked in to look for a bat rack for my…read morehusband's bats. I was not looking for particularly a certain style, but a rack that can hold about 10 bats. There was a young, thick man sitting behind the counter, never got up and glued to his computer and phone. It did not bother him there was someone walking around the store. I walked by the store couple of times and he is still in the same poistion.

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    Riverwood - Game Nights in Riverwood

    Riverwood

    3.8(4 reviews)
    0.1 mi
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    The Riverwood DOES NOT PAY THE ARTISTS who's products they profit off of…read more We're a small, artist-run company called Cactus Club Paper Goods who create stickers and greeting cards of animals and plants we paint. At the beginning of 2022, Riverwood placed an order with us at a trade show under a net30 agreement (meaning they had 30 days to pay us for the wholesale products they bought). They took a receipt with our terms and conditions. It has now been over a year and we still haven't received payment. We have emailed, called, left voicemails, and used their live chat function on their website for over a year and were completely stone-walled. Last week, we finally got a response... They said they sold our products and didn't communicate or pay us because NYC has seized their assets. We felt bad for their situation so we offered a couple solutions to help them out, including waiving all their late fees. They told us to: "F*** off and get a life". And: "Great I'm done talking you you. Feel free to blast me out there and try to destroy another humans life. We will do the same to you." We don't understand the lack of professionalism and we still need them to pay us. They had every opportunity to return any products for a full refund (we'd even pay the shipping). We invested our time and money to create these products and we need stores to pay us to stay in business. We've been as kind as possible and have given them over a year to work with us, but they decided to be unprofessional and vulgar. Our company is only two people and this is our only livelihood. If they feel they can take advantage of us, I can't imagine who else they feel justified in taking advantage of. When you purchase a product at Riverwood, the artists and companies that made that product are seeing no money and Riverwood is keeping 100% of the profit. This is unethical and very wrong.

    Interactive souvenir and gift shop in charming Cooperstown, NY. The sales clerk was fabulous when…read moreshe asked my son to play a game of "Space" with him because he was a little shy and declined but she won him over by offering him a pair of the smallest dice in the world if he won the game. We did not purchase that game but we did find a bunch of other cool dice to swap out for the plain, boring dice that come with Yahtzee. Everything should have a touch of the original, I think. My son selected a game called "Butts in Space", we have not played it yet but it looks like a hilarious winner. They have toys for people of all ages, something for everyone for sure.

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    Woods F R House of Pro Sports

    Woods F R House of Pro Sports

    5.0(2 reviews)
    0.1 mi

    I have almost as much fun shopping in this store as I do walking through the Hall of Fame. I…read moreremember going here as an 8 year old and wanting everything in the store. Now I'm 31 and I want two of everything. Sure, they have all the stuff you'd expect to find in a Cooperstown gift shop: name/number t-shirts for current stars and Hall of Famers; New Era hats for all 30 teams, as well as vintage teams like the St. Louis Browns and Colts 45s; bumper stickers for the Yankees, Mets and Red Sox. But what makes this place special is the vintage souvenirs and fan gear. Remember puffy stickers? Remember 4-inch buttons with players' pictures on them? Remember batting helmet sundae and cereal bowls? Remember painter-style hats with MLB team logos? Remember ceramic bobbleheads? They're all here. And they're authentic. They don't sell replicas or reproductions of kitschy 70s and 80s fan collectibles. They sell originals, the same ones I was browsing over in 1989. One case contains mid-80s stickers for several MLB teams with a sign that says, "Ask about your favorite team!" I didn't see the Yankees, so I asked. "We've been sold out of them since the early 90s," replied the shopkeeper. "Once these are gone, they're gone forever. They don't make them anymore." In a strange way, I was more excited to hear that. Despite this, prices are fair and don't seem too far off from what they were in the 1980s. After you're done in the Hall, come here for a very different trip down memory lane. Even if you don't buy anything (doubtful) you'll leave with a smile on your face.

    Visited in November. Super friendly staff. They were extremely helpful and recommended tons of…read moreplaces nearby to visit. I bought adorable Cooperstown trucker hats for my young nephews and they wear them all the time!

    The Local Bird - giftshops - Updated May 2026

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