Staten Island Sports Hall of Fame

Relive It All Again

Johnny Johnson

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Johnny Johnson, a longtime executive with the New York Yankees, served as baseball commissioner Bowie Kuhn’s chief administrator and, as president of the National Association of Professional Baseball Clubs, led a resurgence in minor-league baseball.
Johnson, who began his career as a $50-a-week stenographer, spent 24 years with the Yankees as a business manager, farm director, personnel director and general manager, during a period when the franchise won 18 pennants and 12 World Series.

Baseball
Class of 2007

Matt Galante

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Matt Galante, a 5-foot-5 All-American infielder from the Brooklyn sandlots and St. John’s University, spent a lifetime as a minor-league player and manager, major-league coach, and manager of the 1999 Houston Astros, who he guided to 97 wins and a division title.
Galante played and managed 20 seasons in the minors, once hitting .342, before spending 16 seasons as a coach with the Astros and three with the Mets, and managed Team Italy in the first World Baseball Classic.

Baseball
Class of 2007

Al Fabbri

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Al Fabbri, the Father of High School Football on Staten Island, built a regional powerhouse at Cutis High School, kept the game alive during the Great Depression, and mentored the generation of coaches who would carry the game into the modern era.
In the period from 1928 to 1936, his teams went 59-9-3 – in 1928 the Warriors won eight of nine games by shutout, outscoring their opponents 241-13 – while seeking out the best competition on the East Coast.

Football
Class of 2007

Joe Andruzzi

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Joe Andruzzi, a 6-3, 315-pound guard from Tottenville High School and Southern Connecticut State, won three Super Bowls as a mainstay of the New England Patriots offensive line.
Andruzzi, who played 10 NFL seasons with the Packers, Patriots and Browns, became a symbol of strength after Sept. 11, 2001, when his firefighter brothers responded to the World Trade Center; and at the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing, where he carried an injured woman from the chaos.

Football
Class of 2007

Fred Olivieri

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Fred Olivieri, the Curtis High School football coach for 26 seasons, took over a struggling team and made it the standard against which all public-school programs were measured, winning four city championships and 170 games.

Olivieri, the 1997 Staten Island Advance Sportsman of the Year, sent three of his players to the National Football League, and helped dozens of others to a college education they might not have had without him.

Football
Class of 2012