Staten Island Sports Hall of Fame

Relive It All Again

Baseball

Oscar Michaud

Staten Island’s first great all-around athlete, Oscar Michaud pitched an 11-inning one-hitter for Curtis High School, outscored entire teams in basketball, and was the single-wing quarterback and signal-caller for the football team. Following his high school career, Michaud expanded his basketball horizons playing with Casey’s Big Five and barnstorming with the New York Nationals.(Read more...)

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Mid-Island 1964 Little League All-Star Team

Mid-Island’s 11 and 12-year-olds won the 1964 Little League World Series in Williamsport, Pa., beating Monterrey, Mexico 4-0 behind a no-hitter by Dan Yaccarino in the championship game. The world champions: Yaccarino, John Currado, Ed Godnig, Frank Higgins, Greg Klee, Gary Kresge, Bob Nugent, Jeff Paul, John Porcell, Dom Quattrochi, Dick Smiechowski Mike Troiano, Mickey Wicinski (players); Bill Rogers, Bob Klee (coaches).(Read more...)

Glenby “Glen” Mosley

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.(Read more...)

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Larry Napp

Larry Napp, a baseball and football star at Lincoln High School in Brooklyn and a promising minor league outfielder, forged a 24-year career as a major-league umpire and a boxing referee. A crew chief for most of his umpiring career, Napp worked four All-Star Games and four World Series – including Don Larsen’s 1956 perfect game – before becoming the American League supervisor of umpires.(Read more...)

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Harry O’Brien

Harry O’Brien coached the Curtis High School baseball team for 28 seasons, and the basketball team for 26, mentoring future major leaguers and establishing a dominating presence unmatched by all but a few coaches anywhere. O’Brien’s baseball teams won 20 Staten Island championships, including 10 in a row, made it to the city championship game five times, and won a city championship in 1941.(Read more...)