Staten Island Sports Hall of Fame

Relive It All Again

Jay Price

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Jay Price, a Staten Island Advance sportswriter and author of Thanksgiving 1959: When One Last Corner of New York City Was Still Part of Small-Town America, and High School Football Was the Last Thing Guys Did for Love. He wrote the column that led to the creation of the Staten Island Sports Hall of Fame.

In four decades as the face of the Advance sports section, Price covered the World Series, the Final Four, the Masters and U.S. Open, and 25 consecutive Super Bowls, and was a featured writer for Sport Magazine.

Sports Media
Class of 2013

Marilyn King

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Marilyn King, a five-time national pentathlon champion, represented the United States at the 1972 and 1976 Olympic Games, and qualified for a third Olympics in 1980, before the U.S. boycotted the Moscow Games.

King, an Eastern States hurdles champion at Tottenville High School, finished fourth in the 1971 Pan Am Games, was the AIAW national champion in the 200-meter hurdles, and a three-time All-American. She was the coach of the first women’s track-and-field team at Cal-Berkeley.

Track & Field
Class of 2013

Charlie Wonsowicz

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Charlie Wonsowicz pitched Tottenville High School to a city championship in 1986, when he won five straight playoff games, including a five-hit shutout in the title game, and helped pitch St. John’s to the 1987 College World Series.
He spent 21 seasons with the New York Yankees as a batting practice pitcher, video coordinator, and coordinator of advance scouting, work that earned Wonsowicz the last of his five World Series rings in 2009.

Baseball
Class of 2010

Tuck Turner

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Tuck Turner, a part-time player for most of his six-year major-league career, hit .418 for the 1894 Philadelphia Phillies, the ninth highest average of all time … but only second best that season, behind Hugh Duffy’s .440.
Turner went 11 straight games with multiple hits. The next season he hit .386. But the Phillies traded him to the Cardinals, and two years later he was back in the minor leagues, leaving behind a lifetime average of .320.

Baseball
Class of 2010

Mickey Sullivan

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Mickey Sullivan, an all-city end at Curtis High School and MVP at North Carolina State, transformed the Wagner College football program in a meteoric stint as head coach.
Sullivan, already a successful businessman, inherited a team that hadn’t won a game in two years, and in his fourth season guided the Seahawks to a 9-0 record in 1960, the first undefeated team in school history. Then he convinced the school to hire a fulltime coach, effectively firing himself and creating the program that became an integral part of the college community.

Football
Class of 2010