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1950 The Young (Slick) and the Old (Nick) Cariglias, both members of the Athletic Hall of Fame, played for State Championship high school baseball teams. Nick also starred for the 1942 Providence College nine that won the Eastern Collegiate Summer Championship, but Slick/Mike one-upped his older brother, playing for the 1952 Holy Cross team that captured the NCAA National title.
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1951 William "Harpo" Tavares, U.S. Army Baseball, West Germany. Harpo, an All State catcher, played for Warren High's State Championship squads of 1945 and 1946. Later Warren's Highway Department Director, Harpo is a member of the Athletic Hall of Fame. (In the two title-winning seasons, Harpo had three hits - or more - against Barrington, Burrillville, Colt Memorial , De La Salle, East Greenwich, North Kingstown, and North Providence.)
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1952 The Ellis Buick-Asselin Chevrolet Yankees were the first championship Little League Baseball team. Pictured were Coach Larry Larivee, Jim "Shoes" Abbruzzi, John "Mouse" Jannitto, Peter Guimelli, Ed Galuska, Joe Lamarca, Ray Rossi, Pete MacDougall, Kenny Ferreira, Fred Dyer, George "Chico" Andrade, Bobby Bento, John Lamora, Walt Nencka, Mickey O'Brien and Manager Hubert "Ditty" Drainville. With the Main Street School in the background, the team stood on the Water Street park's outfield grass. This beautiful park, once the town dump, was later named in memory of Fred Jannitto Sr., who served as the league president from 1954 to 1968. (Andrade, who was the Town Council President twenty-some years later, Drainville, both Jannittos, and MacDougall are members of the Athletic Hall of Fame.)
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1952 All Little League Baseball umpires in the inaugural season were volunteers. Kneeling: Boleslaw "Cooney" Oszajca; Bill Ryan; Mario "Abby" Abbruzzi; Henry Correia, Sr.; and Ted "Maxie" Nicpon. Standing: Bill Lapane; Gil Mello; Umpire-in-Chief Herman "Manny" Heuberger; Tom Rimoshytus; and Leo Lapane. Not shown were John Abbruzzi, Les Burdge, Albert "Lefty" Greenwood, Al "Chassy" Leclerc, and Al "Casey" Primiano. (Both Abbruzzis, Burdge, Correia, Greenwood, and Heuberger are members of the Athletic Hall of Fame.)
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1952 Jim Barry took batting practice for Class A Lima, Ohio. This was the year that Jim "emulated" Chit Beauregard, returning to first base without touching second; the base umpire "inexplicably" called him out. Jim was an All State outfielder for Warren High in 1946 and 1948, but due to problems caused by youthful exuberance, did not finish the 1947 season. (Barry and Beauregard are both members of the Athletic Hall of Fame.)
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1952 Robert "Buzz" Barry was the Maine-New Brunswick Baseball League's second leading hitter while playing for Grand Falls. As Warren High's second baseman, Hall of Famer Buzz was named to the 1948 All State squad. He was one of only two Rhode Islanders to play in the New England All Star game that summer.
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1953 Paul Harvey, Warren High All State halfback, scored four touchdowns and threw to his brother "Ram" for a fifth in a thirty-two point shutout of Barrington. A member of the Athletic Hall of Fame, he went on to play for the State Semipro Champions Grande Club in both 1954 and 1955. (Fifteen years later Paul was the President of the Warren Town Council.)
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1953 (Click caricature once or twice to read more easily.) Pat Abbruzzi was shown in this Providence Journal's Frank Lanning caricature. A Small College All American, Hall of Famer Pat was voted Rhode Island's Outstanding Italo-American Athlete of the Year for both 1953 and 1954. (In 2002 Pat was elected to the Rhode Island Heritage Hall of Fame, joining, at the time, fellow Warrenites Luther Blount and Hall of Famer Lizzie Murphy. Three years later he was inducted into the Rhode Island Interscholastic Hall of Fame.)
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1954 Pat Abbruzzi of the University of Rhode Island was named Rhode Island Athlete of the Year for 1954. The next year, while playing for the Canadian Football League's Montreal Alouettes, he was named both the League's Schenley Player of the Year and the Back of the Year. He is a member of the Athletic Hall of Fame. (Along with fellow Warrenites Luther Blount, Rip Higgins, Chief Massasoit, Charlie Millard, and Lizzie Murphy, Pat is a member of the Rhode Island Heritage Hall of Fame. He is also a member of the Rhode Island Interscholastic Hall of Fame.)
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