Baseball Days Gone By

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Before the WCAL the CAL had 4 future ML players in The CAL) in 1959.

Jim (RIP) Fregosi, Tim Cullen, John Boccabella and Ernie (RIP) Fazio. Three went on to play on the ‘63 Bronco team that went to the College WS.

http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/eastbaytimes/obituary.aspx?pid=187451279

SANTA CLARA, Calif. – Ernie Fazio, a standout Santa Clara University baseball player in the early 1960s who is in the University's Athletic Hall of Fame, died last week at age 75. In 1963, Fazio hit his first big league homerun against future MLB Hall of Famer, Warren Spahn.

 

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That 1959 Serra team with Fregosi at SS and Cullen at third included Gary Hughes backing them up in left field. Hughes went from coaching at Marin Catholic to scouting for the Yankees and then rising to key front office personnel jobs in a variety of locales, including Miami, Denver and Chicago. He has World Series rings and the accolades of his peers through the decades. His latest gig has been scouting for the Red Sox. By the way, just across town at San Mateo HS in 1959, Bill Neukom was a young basketball player. Neukom became managing general partner of the SF Giants and was instrumental in bringing the 2010 World Series title to Third and King, the club's first since moving west from New York in 1958.

 

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Speaking of St. Elizabeth's HS back in the day when Fazio was a teen, may we suggest that the most impressive athlete in that little school's history showed up not long after he graduated. Kevin Hardy was a man-child, a transfer from Chicago. At 6-5 and about 250 pounds, he played basketball (center) and baseball (pitcher). Ticketed for Stanford, he went to Notre Dame where he played three sports, football included. He was a standout in all three. But football was his ticket for sporting cash. A defensive tackle, he played six seasons in the NFL before he suffered an injury that ended his career. Today, St. Elizabeth's is on life support with a tiny student body hovering at about 200 kids. It is a shell of what it once was.

 

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That 1959 Serra team with Fregosi at SS and Cullen at third included Gary Hughes backing them up in left field. Hughes went from coaching at Marin Catholic to scouting for the Yankees and then rising to key front office personnel jobs in a variety of locales, including Miami, Denver and Chicago. He has World Series rings and the accolades of his peers through the decades. His latest gig has been scouting for the Red Sox. By the way, just across town at San Mateo HS in 1959, Bill Neukom was a young basketball player. Neukom became managing general partner of the SF Giants and was instrumental in bringing the 2010 World Series title to Third and King, the club's first since moving west from New York in 1958.

Gary said none of the guys he has drafted over the past decades are actually the best there ever was. I suspect that guy fell off the good and narrow path and ended up serving time.

 

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Gary said none of the guys he has drafted over the past decades are actually the best there ever was. I suspect that guy fell off the good and narrow path and ended up serving time.

What?

 

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Boccabella is still in the area, up in Marin. He was on that SC WS team.

 

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And don't forget the SCU non-CAL stud pitching phenom, Bob Garibaldi, out of Stagg in Stockton. Great prospect. Arm troubles doomed his pro career.