Stories From The Stoop

Sabellico, Tom: - Tom Sabellico graduated from St. Gabriel's Elementary school in June 1967. In his graduation book he noted that his career choices were to be an attorney or baseball player. Over the past 48 years he has blended those ambitions. He has been a youth sports coach since 1974, and founded Winning beyond Winning, whose mission was to employ former professional athletes to help guide young athletes and instruct them with respect to life skills. He was a charter member of the Nassau County sports Commission and is currently on the board of the Oyster Bay Sports Commission. He became an attorney in 1977 and still practices law. He is currently Special Counsel to the Town Attorney for the Town of Oyster Bay, on Long Island, where he lives with his wife, Paula, his children and his six grandbabies. In 2002, he co-wrote the autobiography of former New York Yankee, Ryne Duren, I can see clearly now. In 2006, he co-wrote The Black Aces, with Jim Mudcat Grant.