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Graduate
of Mont Pleasant HS
(Class of 1960)
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Member
of the 1953 Schenectady
Little League All-Star
team (runner-up in the
Little League World
Series)
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Member
of the 1954 Schenectady
Little League World
Championship team (lead
off hitter – played
second base)
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Played
against Boog Powell and
Kenny Hubbs in the
Little League World
Series
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City
of Schenectady Junior
Tennis champion
(1954-1957)
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Ran
a 4:27 mile while a
student at Central Park
Junior High School
(1956)
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Averaged
35 ppg in leading the
1956-57 Schenectady
Jewish Community Center
ninth grade basketball
team to a perfect 35-0
season (Barry Kramer was
also a member of this
team)
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Scored
a record 80 points in a
Jewish CC intramural
basketball game during
the 1956-57 season
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Lettered
in baseball, basketball,
cross-country and tennis
at Mont Pleasant
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Played
in the Schenectady
Twilight Baseball League
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Played
#1 on Mont Pleasant’s
undefeated tennis team
in 1958
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Second
baseman, shortstop and
pitcher on Mont
Pleasant’s undefeated
baseball team in 1960
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Attended
Marshall University on a
basketball scholarship
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Transferred
to Albany State and
played basketball for
“Doc” Sauers
(1962-1964
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Played
in the Country Inn and
Sportsman’s Park fast
pitch softball leagues
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Taught
business at Cohoes High
School for 35 years
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Coached
varsity baseball at
Cohoes High School
(1966-1971)
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Coached
varsity basketball at
Cohoes High School
(1967-1988)
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His
Cohoes basketball teams
won 7 Colonial Council
championships and a
Class “B” Sectional
championship
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Overall
basketball record at
Cohoes was 293-145
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While
at Cohoes he was
selected “Coach of the
Year” four times by
the Troy Record
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Selected
as “Coach of the
Year” by Channel 6
(WRGB) in 1974
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Coached
varsity basketball at
Mechanicville High
School (1993-1996 and
2001 – present)
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His
Mechanicville teams won
two Class “CC”
Section II titles, two
Class “C-CC” Section
II titles and two Class
C Regional titles
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Reached
the semi-finals of the
New York State Public
High School Athletic
Association Basketball
Tournament in 1995
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Saratogian
“Coach
of the Year” in 1995
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His
Mechanicville team
finished second in the
1996 NYSPHSAA Basketball
Tournament
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His
teams gave up just 29
points per game in
Sectional and Regional
games in 1996
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Selected
as 1996 “Coach of the
Year” by the Gazette,
Saratogian, Times Union,
Troy Record and Channel
13 (WNYT)
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Has
coached high school
basketball in five
different decades
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Has
won over 400 high school
basketball games
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2008
inductee into the New
York State Basketball
Hall of Fame
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Channel
13 (WNYT)
basketball scout for Bob
McNamara
