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Sal Bando, baseball player; Ray Barbuti, middle-distance runner; Tom Barrasso, hockey player; Carmen Basilio, boxer; Bat Battalino, boxer; Mark Bavaro, football ...
The National Italian American Sports Hall of Fame is a 501 (c)(3) nonprofit institution honoring exceptional U.S. athletes of Italian descent. In 1977 George Randazzo created the Italian American Boxing Hall of Fame. This was as a means for raising money for local Catholic youth programs.
Aldo Donelli (1907–1994), American football and soccer player, and is a member of the National Soccer Hall of Fame. In 1941, he made American football history becoming thus far the only man to simultaneously coach both a National Football League team, the Pittsburgh Steelers, and a collegiate team, Duquesne Dukes. The latter would finish that ...
Now, the fourth generation Italian American is set to be inducted into the National Italian American Sports Hall of Fame, Pittsburgh Chapter, on Aug. 4 at the LeMont Restaurant in Pittsburgh.
Cappelletti was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1993, [21] and is also a member of the National Italian American Sports Hall of Fame (1989). [29] He was inducted into the Philadelphia Sports Hall of Fame as a member of the 2009 Inductee Class. [30] In 2006, Cappelletti was inducted into the Regions Bank Orange Bowl Hall of ...
On December 15, Stellato was one of eight people inducted into the Italian American Sports Hall of Fame in Chicago. ESPN reporter Jordan Raanan noted that the honor was not based on Stellato’s ...
Aug. 11—Pat Pecora recently was officially inducted into the National Italian American Sports Hall of Fame Pittsburgh Chapter, his ninth hall of fame induction. The Pitt-Johnstown wrestling ...
Retton's hometown, Fairmont, West Virginia, named a road and a park in the town after her. In 1985, she received the Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement presented by Awards Council member General Chuck Yeager. [15] [16] Retton was elected to the National Italian American Sports Hall of Fame in 1992. [17]