Amsterdam native Bob Cudmore has published a new book about the region's past, this time revealing the "Hidden History of the Mohawk Valley: The Baseball Oracle, the Mohawk Encampment and More."? "It's the hidden history - the things you don't hear about," Cudmore told The Leader-Herald this week. The "Baseball Oracle" mentioned in the title was James J. Sheridan II, the proprietor of a smoke shop in Utica who briefly wowed the sports world when he predicted the outcome of 21 St. Louis Cardinals baseball games in 1930. <http://www.leaderherald.com/page/content.detail/id/559556/Storyteller-Strikes-Again.html?nav=5009> -- Bob Sullivan Schenectady Digital History Archive <http://www.schenectadyhistory.org/> Schenectady County (NY) Public Library