Staten Island Sports Hall of Fame
Relive It All Again
Jack Minogue, a teacher and Staten Island Advance sportswriter, used his columns to hold politicians and bureaucrats accountable, and advocated for community causes like the indoor track facility opened in 2015.
A sandlot baseball coach from the time he was a teenager, barely older than the players, Minogue stepped in when the Island’s men’s leagues were foundering, added a twilight league, and revitalized one of the largest programs in the country.
Jason Marquis, who pitched the South Shore Little League to the Little League World Series and Tottenville High School to back-to-back city championships, won 124 games with nine major-league teams.
Marquis won 15 games with the 2004 Cardinals – when he won 11 in a row and started a World Series game against the Red Sox – and again with the 2009 Rockies, when he was a National League All Star.
When the Metropolitan Major League featured the best bowlers in the tri-state area, Dom Labargo was the ultimate team bowler, the anchor man who led the Belmont Plaza Hotel team to five straight league titles and the 1965 New York State championship.
LaBargo, the 1966 New York City all-events champion, won dozens of local events and qualified for the Bowling Proprietors of America national finals in 1963, 1967 and 1968.
Lewis Sanders, the fastest sprinter in Staten Island history, played nine seasons as a National Football League cornerback with the Browns, Texans, Falcons and Patriots, and finished his pro career with nine interceptions.
Sanders starred on both sides of the ball at St. Peter’s High School, before moving on to Maryland, where he led the country in takeaways, and was an All-Atlantic Coast Conference defensive back and kick returner.
Ed Perpetua won a record 56 Staten Island championships – 12 singles titles, 23 men’s doubles titles, and another 21 in mixed doubles – and eight Triple Crowns.
A self-taught player, Perpetua won the National Indoor 35-and-over doubles, was a finalist in the National 35-and-over singles, and coached both men’s and women’s tennis at Wagner College.