Albany Cooperstown, home to the Baseball Hall of Fame, has thrown hydrofracking supporters a curve — with a local law banning the controversial practice of collecting trapped gas by fracturing shale through pressurized injections of chemicals.

And nearly three dozen other municipalities may follow suit.

The oil and gas industries insist that state law trumps local ordinances, but Deputy Senate Majority Leader Thomas Libous (R-Binghamton) got the message.

“I don’t see us drilling in places where the locals don’t want it,” he said last week before adding, “The point I was making is: Drill here first. We want it.”