Little League baseball was barely a rumor on Staten Island in the 1950s, until a group of determined men built something they called the Staten Island Little League.
After beginning play on borrowed land in 1953, the league’s founding fathers – Bud Cusack, Jiggs Seaman, John Marino, Joe Darcy Sr., Joe “Babe” Darcy Jr., Jim Darcy and Ed Elliott – carved a complex out of the Dongan Hills wetlands, and became the model for all the leagues and players that followed.
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