PHIL CUZZI
A National League umpire
Belleville native and a 1973 graduate of
Belleville High School
Major League Baseball - Umpire bio
The Baseball Cube - Belleville born major league players
Moe Berg
Jeff Gogal
J.M. Gold
Creighton Gubanich
Jeff Miller
Paul Mirabella
Isaac Pavlic
John Rodriguez
Jason Weintraub
CREIGHTON GUBANICH
Born: March 27. 1972, in Belleville NJ
PAUL MIRABELLA
Born March 20, 1954, in Belleville NJ
Baseball Almanac
JACK CULLEN
The Belleville High School Class of 1958 graduate played
professional baseball.
The right-handed pitcher was signed by the Yankees in 1959
as an amateur free agent.
He played for the New York Yankees from 1962 until
traded to the Los Angeles Dodgers in 1967.
Baseball Almanac
Baseball Reference
Sports Illustrated
TONY MEOLA
Born February 21, 1969, in Belleville, NJ.
Tony was
goalkeeper for every US game in World Cups 1990 and 1994, and particularly
in 1994 was a key player in keeping the team in the game with his numerous
saves.
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DAVID GRANT
Round 4 -
Team - Cincinnati,
Position - DE
College - West Va.
Super Bowl XXIII
Played for Cincinnati in loss against SF 49ers.
David Grant, who played football for the Cincinnati Bengals, formerly
played football at WVU.
No. 85 yr. 1983
David Grant 6-4 240 Fr DL Belleville NJ
David Grant Belleville DE 6-5 278 70 Green Bay 5
While coming back from a knee injury, Grant was cut by Cincinnati during
training camp last year and missed the entire season. He joins the Packers
as a free agent.
ABDEL ANDERSON
Rutgers Basketball Hall of Fame
1998 Inductee
ABDEL ANDERSON
Rutgers Class of 1979
ANDY SHIBILO
Long Island Ducks
Webnews
Sports Illustrated
TOM SUCHDOLSKI
New Jersey City University Gothic Knight Athletics
Freshman right-hander TOM SUCHDOLSKI ( Belleville , NJ / Belleville ) earned
his first collegiate victory (1-1), leaving with no outs in the fifth inning
after facing three batters. In all, he pitched four innings, allowing four
runs and seven hits with three strikeouts and three walks.
DANNY MUSICO
Boxing
Born Sept. 26, 1968, in Belleville NJ
Weightlifters Hall of Fame
Bob Giordano
Bob Giordano was one of the best 220 and 242 pound lifters in the country
from the mid 1970s to the early 1980s.
The highlights in Bob's career are many. He placed third in the 220-lb.
class at the 1978 Senior Nationals. He moved up to the 242s in 1979 and
nearly came away with the national title as he placed a close second at the
Nationals. He repeated this second place finish in 1980 and was named to the
1980 Olympic squad.
The one time owner of an Italian restaurant, he was billed as the world's
strongest pizza maker. Bob began his lifting career as a member of the
Belleville Barbell Club. He later opened his own gym, encouraging and
helping many local athletes in the sport of Olympic style weightlifting. Bob
continues to help the community, as he is currently a practicing attorney in
the town of Belleville.
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Phil Grippaldi
Belleville
Phil Grippaldi was one of the world's premier lifters from the mid 1960's to
the mid 1970's. He came into national prominence at the 1966 Senior
Nationals where he placed second and set the first of his five Junior world
records in the press.
Phil won the Senior Nationals in 1967, 68, 70, 73, 74, and 77. He was a
member of the Olympic teams in 1968, 72, and 76. He was Pan American
champion in 1967,1971 and 1975. Phil's highest placing was second in the
1970 World Championships.
Phil was Strength & Health's Lifter of the Year in 1970 and 1974. He has set
numerous American records. Grippaldi was originally a member of the Keasbey
Eagles and was coached by Butch Toth. He later trained for many years at the
Belleville Barbell Club.
Phil Grippaldi, Silver medalist Middle Heavyweight 1972
Olympic Games, Seven time U.S. National Weightlifting Champion, U.S. Record
Holder.
Biofitness
1967- 1035 lbs (198 pounds)
1968- 1055 lbs
1970- 1090 lbs
1973- 325 kg
1974- 342.5 kg
1977- 337.5 kg
U.S. Weightlifting Champions
Hickoksports.com US Weightlifting
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Mike Listro
Belleville
In a career spanning twenty years, Mike Listro established himself as
New Jersey's premier middleweight weightlifter. From 1984, when he won the
Teenage Nationals, Listro pursued the national senior championship for five
years, winning the middleweight titles in 1989 and 1990, following bronze
medals in 1985 and 1987, and the silver in 1988.
In 1978, fifteen year old Mike Listro began weightlifting in his hometown of
Belleville, New Jersey. Over the next six years, he won four National Junior
Olympics championships, and four US Regional Junior championships. After
winning the Junior Pan American title in 1984, Listro toured Europe in 1987
with the USA Under-23 Team, competing in Sweden, France, West Germany, and
England.
Listro competed as a member of the USA National Team in the Montreal Cup in
1987, then in the Moomba International Tournament in Australia in 1988,
placing fifth. He placed third in the 1988 US Olympic Trials in the
middleweight division. In 1989, Listro won the US Olympic Sports Festival.
Retiring from national competition after the 1991 national championships,
Mike Listro returned in 1997 to win the silver in the 83 kg weight category.
During his career, Listro competed for the Belleville Barbell Club, and
later for East Coast Gold. A proponent of the Bulgarian school of
weightlifting, Listro achieved great success in applying its principles to
his training and competition lifting.
Scott Graham
Scott Graham
is an American sportscaster best-known for his broadcasts of the
Philadelphia Phillies. He has lived and worked near Philadelphia for
most of his life. He was born
June 10,
1965 in
Belleville, New Jersey, and now lives in
Voorhees, New Jersey. His sportscasting résumé covers several
organizations in Philadelphia and around the USA. Graham is a graduate of
the University of Pennsylvania (Penn), where he earned a Bachelor of Arts in
political science.
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