In Cooperstown, N.Y., fans of the Glimmerglass Festival, a celebration of music, are finding it hard to compete for hotel space with other fans there to watch a legend — their 12-year-old.

Cooperstown is home to the Baseball Hall of Fame, a storehouse of lore and an economic engine that draws throngs to the town’s Main Street.Credit...Liam Kennedy for The New York Times

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By Graham Bowley

Photographs by Liam Kennedy