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The Incredible Day Howie Hammer and John Bruschi Met Their Match – By David Siegel
Let's go back to 1971 when paddleball was starting to take off at the city playgrounds, up in the Catskills, in Florida and the many beach clubs in the NYC area. It was played with wooden paddles and a "555" handball. The man who was at the forefront of the...
Mitch Goldberg – PFA Weekly Player Profile for week of 9/4/17
Mitch Goldberg by Mike Melendez & Dave Siegel He's a Master Chef, a gardener, a softball player, a bowler, a magician, a PFA youth program volunteer, an actor and, oh yes, he plays paddleball. It's amazing that with all these activities, Mitch Goldberg is not only...
Sal Coticelli – PFA Weekly Player Profile for week of 8/28/17
Sal Coticelli By Dave Siegel You all know him. He's played in many tournaments, visited many paddleball parks (usually on his bike) and is forever posting on the Facebook paddleball groups. He is one of the best young players today, very talented and highly motivated...
Nancy McKeon – PFA Weekly Player Profile for week of 8/14/17
Nancy McKeon by Dave Siegel Staten Island has a secret it has hidden from the paddleball world for decades. It's Nancy McKeon. She is far and away the best woman paddleball player in Staten Island and every player on the Island knows it. We all believe she could...
Remembering Jack Moriarty
Jack Moriarty Born 10/15/1942 – Passed Away 11/19/2011 Written by Debbie Rosenthal Jack Moriarty Father, Husband & Paddleball Player During the summer of 1976, Jack fell in love with the game of paddleball.. a late starter compared to others, at the age of 34....
PFA Players Ranking Criteria
As communicated in my earlier Post, below is the PFA players ranking criteria. These are not perfect but we have to get started with something and build on it. We shared our criteria with some of the paddleball directors in the game and they agreed with it. As I...
Eddie Montañez – PFA Weekly Player Profile for week of 7/31/17
Eddie Montañez By Dave Siegel I guarantee that you will not find another person in the world of paddleball like Eddie Montañez. Eddie is a very talented player with amazing skills who plays the game strictly to have fun and truly does not care if he wins or loses. He...
Tony Cascella – PFA Weekly Player Profile for week of 7/16/17
Tony Cascella By Dave Siegel By now, most of you know the miraculous, heroic story of Tony Cascella, the focus of the "Welcome Back Tony" tournament held last September at Staten Island. In January, 2016 he was stricken with sudden cardiac arrest while playing...
I Got Next by Dave Siegel
I Got Next!?? "I got next!", the slogan of the PFA, has a different meaning in Midland Beach, Staten Island. A player can't simply pick the court and partner he or she likes and wait it out until it's time to get on (zzzzz....). Is this unfair? Maybe. But Staten...
Jay Brown – PFA Weekly Player Profile for week of 7/9/17
Jay Brown Jay reminds me more of a power forward basketball player instead of a paddleball player. He is a hard hitting right handed paddleball player from the Bronx with a ton of potential to become one of the sport's elite player. He started playing the game back in...
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