The Story Behind Bold Dragon

Where did my nick name Bold Dragon originate from? Well have you ever been to Cooperstown N.Y., home of the Baseball Hall Of Fame. Back in 1987, on a gorgeous and colorful fall October day, I visited the Hall Of Fame with a friend. We visited the town of Cooperstown, for three days. If you have been to the Baseball Hall Of Fame, you would know that, you can visit the museum and tour the site within a day. So now Bill and I needed to figure out what we were going to do for the rest of the time, we had in New York. Now Cooperstown is a beautiful village. It is nestled in the picturesque rolling hills, bordering the Susquehanna River and Otsego Lake. A quaint small village, tucked in a side street, in the hub of Cooperstown was this tiny bar that my friend and I happened upon. Hey we had nothing better to do, so we stopped in. Bill being a fanatic was logging everything we did, from our starting point on the Mid Coast of Maine, through the White Mountains of New Hampshire, past the Green Mountains of Vermont, all the way through the Adirondacks and into Cooperstown. So it wasn’t unlike him to notice the name of the bar, so he could log it down, in his log book. Anyway we had a few beers and then retired for the night. Cooperstown was a lot of fun and I would recommend it for any baseball lover. Six months after our trip to the Hall Of Fame, Bill and I founded a Fantasy baseball League. We started an eight team league, with a bunch of friends and co-workers. I was having difficulty naming my fantasy team, so Bill knowing how fond I was of the little side street bar in New York, suggested that I name my team after the bar. Well at the time, we both falsely named my team the, Bold Dragons. In 1988, the name Bold Dragon was created. Our Fantasy League, the Mid Coast Fantasy Baseball League, through thick and thin, has survived to this time, only hours before the stroke of twelve, prior to the New Year, 2005. Later that year 1988, Bill was reading over his log book, and discovered that he and I falsely named my team, as it was our intentions to name my team after the bar in Cooperstown. After discovering the real name for perhaps my favorite bar, I decided to keep my team, nickname, user name or whatever I, he or you want to call it, Bold Dragon. Well by now I suppose you’re wondering what the tiny bar in a small village, nestled in the picturesque rolling hills, bordering the Susquehanna River and Otsego Lake, in the State Of New York was named. I will never forget our first trip to The Baseball Hall Of Fame and the night we visited the tiny bar named “The Bold Dragoon.”