HARTWICK - Eddie Einhorn's Cooperstown Baseball World has notified the town of Hartwick that it will have to wait a little longer to get the money it is owed.

Einhorn still has a bill with the town for more than $15,000 in costs associated with the planning board's review of his two proposals for a baseball complex next door to the Dreams Park on Route 28. The bulk of the money owed to the town is from his original application which was eventually withdrawn and replaced with a new plan.

"The illness of Mr. Einhorn and the costs associated with settling a law suit in Hartwick has caused changes in our cash flow situation for the 2001 season at CBW," the town was told in a brief letter received last Thursday.

In a telephone interview earlier that day, Einhorn said he had "no comment" about future plans for Cooperstown Baseball World in Hartwick Seminary. He said he was "getting back into the swing of things" and that he had "too much to do right now." He said he would talk about plans for Cooperstown Baseball World after the first of the year.

The review of Einhorn's plan is close to complete, but nothing has been done on it since the application was not approved by the county planning board during its mandatory review in June. County planning director Diane Carlton said the major reason the board failed to approve the project was concerns over the accuracy of the traffic study.

Since that time, it has not been back on the agenda at the town of Hartwick.

"I haven't heard a thing since before the July meeting," said Hartwick town planning board co-chairman Dick Kelly this week. "It's strange, but that business and it's up to them to come to us."

Kelly said he was aware of the letter, but had not yet seen a copy.

The letter received by the town mentioned the settlement of a lawsuit in Hartwick which is a reference to Einhorn being included in the long-standing legal battle between Dreams Park partners Louis Presutti III and David Dinallo and Peter Nash.

The suit accuses Einhorn of conspiring to wrestle control of the park away Presutti.

None of the parties to the suit would discuss Einhorn's involvement, but mention of the settlement of a lawsuit in the Cooperstown Baseball World letter lends credence to one of the rumors currently circulating that Einhorn has abandoned his plan for Cooperstown Baseball World in Hartwick in exchange for being removed from the suit.

A pre-trail conference in the lawsuit was set for today, Sept. 6, in New Jersey.

The suit is expected to go to trial in November.