Staten Island Sports Hall of Fame
Relive It All Again
Glen Mosley, a baseball and basketball star at Tottenville High School, and the captain of his Army baseball team during the Korean War, played four seasons with the New York Black Yankees of the Negro Leagues.
Mosley, a slick-fielding second baseman steered to the Black Yankees by a Brooklyn Dodger scout, witnessed the decline of the Negro Leagues after Jackie Robinson broke baseball’s color barrier.
Pete Meurer, a self-taught public-course player and retired firefighter, won five Staten Island Amateurs and a record 13 Staten Island Classics – including 10 in a row – in addition to the Met Publinx, the New York City Amateur and the Rockland County Amateur.
Meurer, the Met Golf Association’s 2004 Player of the Year, qualified for three U.S. Amateurs and two U.S. Publinx, and played on seven MGA international teams.
Frank Hannigan, a one-time teenage greenskeeper at Silver Lake Golf Course, became an outspoken champion of golf as a writer, administrator, rules expert, and visionary leader of the United States Golf Association.
Hannigan, who rewrote the USGA tournament model when he took the 1986 Open to Long Island’s Shinnecock Hills, found a second career as an on-air TV analyst, and co-wrote several books with Open champion Tom Watson.
Steve Gregory played eight NFL seasons, most of it as a safety with the San Diego Chargers and New England Patriots, and retired with eight career interceptions and two defensive touchdowns.
Gregory was an All-East back at Curtis High School, where he scored 51 TDs, ran for an Island record 2,060 yards, and led the Warriors to back-to-back city championships, before becoming a four-year starting defensive back, wide receiver, and special-teams star at Syracuse.
Bob Daggett won 504 games in 25 seasons as the girls’ basketball coach at St. Peter’s and Curtis High School, winning 75 percent of his games.
Daggett’s St. Peter’s teams won Archdiocesan and state championships, and 16 straight Staten Island titles, and went nine seasons without losing to an Island opponent. In two seasons at Curtis he won a PSAL A championship and went to the AA semifinals.