is also an influential equestrian in Wellington
The National Baseball patagonia nano puff pulloverHall of Fame s biggest power hitter often starts her day with a cup of coffee and a ride atop Goldwing, Altaire or one of her other prized horses along the equestrian trails of Wellington.
Jane Forbes Clark also enjoys making dinner for friends, who include patagonia alpine guidesome of baseball s most famous players, using the Barefoot Contessa cookbook.
Jane Forbes Clark, shown at her Wellington home, is a major player in the horse industry, but her passion remains the Baseball Hall of Fame, of which she is its chair.
Her other hobbies include needlepoint, an irony that isn t lost on the primary heir of a family fortune born in 1851, when her great great grandfather helped start the Singer Sewing Machine Cpatagonia better sweater men's largeompany.
I can also sew and I learned on a Singer, she said with a laugh. As the hall s chairperson, she ll be on stage Sunday, standing before a crowd of 20,000 and hanpatagonia black hole duffel 60l reviewding out plaques to Andre Dawson and the other inductees.
Part of the annual planning for Hall of Fame weekend takes place in 1,373 miles from Cooperstown where Clark has lived part time since 1980 to be near her first passion: horses.
Clark, 56, is an influential force in the international equestrian community. She owns more than 20 horses, including world class dressage and show jumpers and three that won medals in the Olympics (1996 in Atlanta, 2000 in Sydney and 2004 in Athens). She also owns two bulls Evil Doer and Ludicris on the Professional Bull Riders circuit.
But her family s biggest influence can be found in Cooperstown, where her grandfather s grandfather moved after becoming Isaac Singer s patent lawyer. Edward Clark married the daughter of a Cooperstown lawyer.
When he died in 1882, he bequeathed some of his fortune to the village.
Its most widely known project is the Baseball Hall of Fame, which began when her grandfather, Stephen Clark, converted an old gym on Main Street into the National Baseball Museum.
Today, the Hall of Fame has 100 full time employees and a $12 million annual budget. It attracts an apatagonia jackets discountverage of 350,000 visitors a year with the biggest days being induction weekend, when the village of 2,200 residents swells to more than 30,000.
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Clark s family foundation touches the entire village of Cooperstown from providing $2.8 million in college scholarships each year for area teens to hanging baskets of fresh flowers from street poles.
The family owns more than 10,000 acres around Lake Otsego to protect it from development and preserve the charm that novelist James Fenimore Cooper tapped nearly 200 years ago as inspiration for Last of the Mohicans.
There is so much more to Jane in Cooperstown than just the Baseball Hall of Fame, said Mason Phelps, a public relations man for equestrian events and another patagonia discount code greatpart time Wellington resident who has been Clark s friend for more than 40 years.
She does an enormous amount around the world for many different causes and half of them you wouldn t know about because she s not one to share all of that with people.
Clark, who has never been married, said she grew up in Virginia and spent springs and long summers in Cooperstown. She played patagonia better sweater men's large0left field for a girls softball team but admits she wasn t always a baseball fan.
But as a little girl, Clark said, she was the envy of her malepatagonia everlong review lexus schoolmates because of her family s connection to baseball.
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The first Hall of Famers she remembers meeting Ted Williams and Casey Stengel were at the Otesaga Hotel, which her family bpatagonia better sweater men's large3uilt in 1910.
Her fondest childhood memory has nothing to do with baseball.
When I was 4 years old, she said, my Christmas present was a small white pony standing under the Christmas tree with a big red bow in her forelock.
One of the real reasons I went they had a great riding program and I could take my horses, she said.
Clark uses her interior design skills to decorate Clark Foundation properties, from the Hall of Fame to the 180 bed Mary Imogene Bassett Hospital in Cooperstown.
She also lives in New York City, where her family s real estate portfolio includes the Dakota, a historic apartment building where John Lennon was murdered in 1980. She has an office at Rockefeller Center.
She took over the late George Steinbrenner s box seats at old Yankee Stadium after The Boss moved his perch to the executive suite. (She doesn t have a box at new Yankee Stadium.)
Since she bpatagonia hiking boots 7 reviewsecame chair of the Hall of Fame in 2000, she has made it her mission to make sure all of living Hall of Famers return for induction ceremonies each year.
