Mickey’s Place

Chili Cheese Hot Dog was tasty but unfortunately they didn’t melt the cheese on the dog. Rookie move!

Mickey’s has THE best Cooperstown collection of new era hats… and they have my size 8… I’ve been coming here for years. Cooperstown is full of souvenir stores, but Mickey’s has the best hat selection.

I’ve been to Cooperstown twice in the last two years and Mickey’s Place has got to have the best overall selection of baseball hats and shirts of all the places on Main St. Their minor league baseball hat inventory is especially impressive and second to none. They have a huge assortment of Franchise fitted hats which I like a lot over the standard baseball hats. My really cool find on a recent trip was a Wright & Ditson St Louis Cardinals shirt with a logo of a cardinal in a pitching stance which is an alternate logo from the fifties.

More like 3.5 stars than four, but didn’t want to lower it down to three.
Here’s the deal, I love baseball. I love collecting baseball caps, particularly ones of the ‘Cooperstown Collection’. I have a bit of a big dome, so selection is limited for me. Knowing that Mickey’s Place has an extensive collection that I could try on in person during my recent visit to Cooperstown (first time in 18 years), I was pretty thrilled.
That thrill lasted until I went in there and there were three college-​aged kids working the counter where the large wall of hats are. I’m in my 20’s, I’m not some curmudgeon, but I was pissed with the piss poor service. The three kids spent the time ignoring myself and other customers, spending their time texting and being generally surly when asked to grab a hat. Sorry, but your job is to get the hat I’m looking for. That’s it. You work in the coolest store in a tourist town, have a Coke and a smile and chill the eff out.
As far as shopping there goes, I’m going to stick with the website, even when I go back to Cooperstown.
The store is great. A little cramped, but you can’t beat their extensive selection of stuff you generally only find on a website. They destroy the Baseball Hall of Fame gift store, by far. This is what the HoF Gift Store should strive to be like.
Should have been a 5, but 1.5 stars get knocked off for piss poor service. I hope the website treats me better!