Baseball
Jason Marquis
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.(Read more...)
Dan McDermott
Dan McDermott is the only high school athlete named to the Staten Island Advance all-time Dream Team in basketball and All-Century Team in baseball. McDermott was 32-3 as a pitcher at Curtis High School, 9-1 in the city playoffs, and led the Warriors to back-to-back city championships in 1961 and 1962; and carried Curtis to a third-place finish in the city basketball playoffs, setting a tournament scoring record that stood for decades.(Read more...)
Matty McIntyre
Matty McIntyre hit .269 in 10 big-league seasons with the Athletics, Tigers and White Sox, and teamed with Ty Cobb and Sam Crawford to take the Tigers to back-to-back World Series in 1908 – when McIntyre led the league with 105 runs – and 1909. Traded to the Chicago White Sox, partly as a result of a bitter feud with Cobb, McIntyre hit .323 and scored 102 runs in 1911.(Read more...)
Frank Menechino
Frank Menechino, played six different position – even appearing in two games as a pitcher – in seven big-league seasons with the Oakland A’s and Toronto Blue Jays, before becoming a minor-league coach, and batting coach for the Marlins. Menechino, a 150-pound catcher at Susan Wagner High School, led his Alabama college team in hitting, triples and stolen bases. He hit 12 home runs and drove in 60 runs for the 2001 A’s.(Read more...)
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...)