Spotlight to shine on area sports legends
There a great cast of area sports celebs being honored Monday night all through the second annual March of Dimes Elm City Legends along at the Omni, including a pair of my alltime favorite college baseball coaches, exUniversity of latest Haven coach Frank Vieira and current Quinnipiac coach Dan Gooley, every whom can illumine a banquet room.
Then there Cheshire High swim coach Ed Aston, who hasn lost a girls dual meet as the Taft administration, Bob Dikranian, the daddy of Southern Connecticut State great soccer program, and Dick Gagliardi, hmo's hockey coach of legendary repute at Yale and Hamden High.
Rounding through the magnificent seven are Anne Worcester, the indefatigable tournament chairman for the Pilot Pen Tennis tournament and mother hen of Market New Haven, and Jack Siedlecki, who brought home two Ivy football championships at Yale.
Also Tommy John, the standout pitcher towards the Dodgers and Yankees, along with whom e
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