Staten Island Sports Hall of Fame

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Rich Scheid

Rich Scheid pitched 13 complete games and won 21 at Seton Hall, where he was a two-time All-Big East pitcher and New Jersey Pitcher of the Year, and remains among the all-time school leaders in a half-dozen pitching categories. A second-round draft choice of the New York Yankees, Scheid was 1-4 in 21 big-league games as a reliever with the Houston Astros and Miami Marlins, and 59-47 over parts of 10 minor league seasons. He (Read more...)

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Bob Steele

Bob Steele was a mentor and role model to generations of athletes in more than a half-century as a coach and athletic director at McKee High School and Staten Island Tech, and as an assistant at the College of Staten Island. A three-time Daily News Coach of the Year, Steele won three Staten Island High School League titles in 15 seasons as the basketball coach at McKee, and an Island PSAL title in 41 seasons (Read more...)

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...)