East Morris Reds - 15U

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Bobby Crescenzo

• Rutgers University Coaching Certification (2004) with over 25 years of baseball coaching and instructional experienceworking with student athletes of all ages, and at all levels.
• Learned his craft from some formidable professional ball players and coaches such as legendary outfielder Paul Blair and hitting guru, the late Charley Lau. Bob was asked to play in the Florida State Winter Instructional League by the Cleveland Indians under then Scouting Supervisor Leon Hamilton. Bob played his college baseball at Mercy College under coach, author, and mentor Rick Wolff (WFAN 660, Sports Edge) who also is currently Chairman, Center for Sports Parenting.
• Team captain in 1980 and 1981, providing strong leadership and finished his career with a .345 lifetime batting average, with a career high of .416. He was a part of several big wins against strong Division I and II programs, such as Monmouth, Pace, Fordham, New Haven and St. Francis. Hit game-winning home runs versus Pace and Monmouth. In October of 2009, Bob was inducted into the Mercy College Athletics Hall of Fame.
• A 1982 graduate with a B.S. in Management, and completed hisMaster’s in Education at Mercy, and is active with the Mercy Athletics department and the College to this day.

Joe Grande

University of Tampa

• Played Varsity ball at livingston for two years (senior captain)
  played first and lefty pitcher.
• Finished with a average over .350 and was 5-1 and a pitcher senior year.
  
• Earned all conference and all county honors in the iron hills conference (which to a lot of people was the best conference in the state)
  
• Lead Livingston to a county champion and had ranks as high as 7 in state
  
• Played for Teels Ravens and Super Seventeen