1942 Johnny Abbruzzi, All State Baseball player, followed in the athletic footsteps of his brothers Jim, Abby, and Duke. Like Beany Ryan before him (1938) and Jim Barry afterwards (1948), he led all Rhode Island schoolboys in hitting - with an average of .454. (Abby, Duke, and Johnny Abbruzzi, Barry, and Ryan are members of the Athletic Hall of Fame.)
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1942 Featured on Providence College Baseball team's game program was Warren's Nick Cariglia. The Friars captured the Rhode Island Collegiate Championship and the Eastern Collegiate Championship. They lost only one game to a college opponent. (Hall of Famer Nick later coached the Warren High 1961 Class C Basketball Champions.)
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1943 Warren High School Baseball team that twice defeated the Barrington Brownies (yes, they were known as Brownies before being dubbed the "Seagulls"). Front row: Albert Sevigny; Joseph Silva; Tony Nunes; Carl Goff; Joe Bucko; Anthony Mello; John Burns; and Coach Norm Urban. Second row: Manager Edward Nans; Henry Soares; Roger "Nelly" Higgins; Bruce Luther; John "Jay" Barry; Edward Krawczyk; Gregory "Inky" Incollingo; William Monahan; John "Huck" Henneberry; and Assistant Manager John Seymour. Not pictured were All State catcher Ed Polak and Larry Urban. (Barry, Higgins, Nunes, Polak, and Norm Urban are members of the Athletic Hall of Fame.) (Jay Barry and Tony Nunes both later served on the Warren School Committee, while Inky Incollingo was a member of the Warren Town Council.)
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1944 (Click caricature once or twice to read more easily.) As Warren High opened the season, Ed Polak, who had three bingles, and William "Harpo" Tavares had the game's only four hits. (Notice how many candidates had signed up for Hope baseball.) Both Polak and Tavares, who between them caught the slants of Rhode Island's first team All State pitcher four years in a row, are members of the Athletic Hall of Fame.
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1944 and 1945 Roger "Nelly" Higgins was named Rhode Island's first team All State pitcher in both his junior and senior seasons and led the Redskins to the 1945 State Championship. (And Roland "Ace" Boulanger followed in his footsteps and was named the first team All State pitcher the next two years.) Both Boulanger and Higgins are members of the Athletic Hall of Fame.
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1945 Warren High School Class C and State Baseball Champions were coached by Charlie McCanna. Standing: Coach McCanna; Leon Urban; Wesley Peck; Jim Henneberry; Gerry Sampson; Roger "Nelly" Higgins; George Wakem; Ben Coccia; Ted Wyrostek; and Jim Barry. Kneeling: Bob "Buzz" Barry; Donald "Duck" Muccino; Emilio "Mendy" Mendillo; William "Harpo" Tavares; Joseph Silva; Roland "Ace" Boulanger; Richard Vargas; and Anthony Amaral. Not pictured were Pat Barba and Alfred Charette. Class C Burrillville, Class B West Warwick, and Class A East Providence were defeated in the state playoffs. George Wakem, whose fast ball "couldn't break a pane of glass," pitched into the eighth inning of the clinching 3-1 victory. (Both Barrys, Boulanger, Higgins, McCanna, Mendillo, and Tavares are members of the Athletic Hall of Fame, as is the team itself.)
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1945 (Click cartoon once to read more easily.) Roger "Nelly" Higgins in a cartoon tribute from Providence Journal's illustrator Frank Lanning. Hall of Famer Roger set the state strikeout record in 1944 and 1945 and was named first team All State pitcher in both years. He then moved quickly through the Boston Red Sox farm system until arm injuries brought his career to an end.
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1945 At the end of World War Two, Hall of Famers Louis "Duke" Abbruzzi and Leo "Sal" Sevigny suited up for the United States Army in Yugoslavia. Duke later played in the National Football League, while Sal had been scheduled to attend Boston Red Sox spring training before breaking his leg.
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1945 (Click article once or twice to read more easily.) With World War Two having recently concluded, the Narragansett Fire Company Football team announced plans to play an abbreviated fall schedule. Hall of Famers Henry Correia and Terry Martin were the eleven's manager and coach, respectively; players Abbruzzi, Burdge, and Ferrazzano are also members of the Athletic Hall of Fame.
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