Staten Island Sports Hall of Fame

Relive It All Again

Basketball

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Jim Mutrie

Jim Mutrie managed the 19th Century New York Metropolitans of the American Association and New York Gothams of the National League, and is credited with giving the modern Giants their nickname. Mutrie, who moved to Staten Island when the Giants played part of the 1889 season in St. George, won three pennants and 61 percent of his games, the second-best managerial winning percentage of all time.(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...)

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Kevin O’Connor

Kevin O’Connor, the longtime general manager of the Utah Jazz, was a leader wherever he played, from Monsignor Farrell High School to Belmont Abbey College, where he was captain of a team that went 21-5. O’Connor coached at VMI, Colorado and UCLA, where he was Larry Brown’s top assistant on the team that went to the 1980 national championship game, and an NBA scout and personnel director for Utah before taking charge of the Jazz.(Read more...)

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Francis “Buddy” O’Grady

Buddy O’Grady was a basketball floor general from high school – where he helped guide St. Peter’s to the 1938 city championship game – to Georgetown, to the American Basketball Association, forerunner of the NBA. O’Grady played three seasons for the Washington Capitols, St. Louis Bombers, and Providence Steamrollers of the ABA, before returning to coach his alma mater. When Georgetown celebrated its greatest players in 2007, O’Grady was among them.(Read more...)

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Kenny Page

Kenny Page was Ohio State’s third-leading scorer as a freshman before transferring to New Mexico, where he averaged 28 points a game one year – fourth in the country, and still the school record – and 24 the next. A High School All American, Page broke his own single-season record, scoring 29 a game as a senior and leading McKee to the city championship game, where he scored 32 points in a losing cause.(Read more...)