Staten Island Sports Hall of Fame

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Jack Taylor

Jack Taylor earned 120 big-league wins and a reputation as an ironman on the mound in 10 seasons with the 1890s New York Giants, Philadelphia Phillies, St. Louis Cardinals and Cincinnati Reds. Taylor was the ace of the staff in Philadelphia, where he won 23, 26 and 20 games in consecutive seasons with the Phillies, and finished all but 26 of his 235 career starts.(Read more...)

Bobby Thomson

Bobby Thomson hit the most famous home run in baseball history, the last-inning “Shot Heard Round the World” that vaulted the New York Giants over the Brooklyn Dodgers in their 1951 National League playoff.   The Curtis High School grad hit 263 home runs in a 15-year major-league career with the Giants, Braves, Cubs, Red Sox and Orioles, drove in 100 runs four times, and led the Giants in homers five years in a row.(Read more...)

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Tom Tierney

Tom Tierney won more than 900 games – eight wins for every loss – and six city championships as the baseball coach at Tottenville High School, and was the 1986 National High School Coach of the Year. Tierney was an All-Yankee Conference baseball and football player at the University of Vermont, and winner of the Semans Trophy as the school’s outstanding athlete.(Read more...)

Jack Tracy

Jack Tracy, an all-city baseball and basketball player at Curtis High School and an All-American second baseman at Seton Hall, set school records for hits and consecutive chances without an error, and led the Pirates to the 1984 College World Series. Tracy hit .270 in seven minor-league seasons, hit .382 one year in the New York-Penn League, and was a two-time International League All Star.(Read more...)

Tuck Turner

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 (Read more...)