Ron Naclerio
Ron Naclerio is an author and all time winningest coach for the PSAL league.[1] He coaches at Benjamin Cardozo High School.[2]
Early life
Naclerio was born in 1958.[3] His father Emil Naclerio is a thoracic surgeon.[4] Naclerio played baseball at St. John’s University and later spent three years in the Chicago White Sox system.[4] This included the Gulf Coast League White Sox.[5]
Coaching
Naclerio started coaching in 1981.[2] After years as an assistant under Al Matican.[4] In his first season he went 1-21.[6] The second year he went 21-4.[7] By 2011 he had reached 600 wins[4] and eventually broke the record of wins by a PSAL coach when he reached 723 passing Chuck Granby.[8] Eventually he reached 748 wins and counting.[9] During this time he won two city titles.[8]
Author
Naclerio cowrote Swee'Pea and Other Playground Legends: Tales of Drugs, Violence and Basketball with John Valenti[10]
Notable players
References
- ↑ Linge, Mary Kay; Tanzer, Joshua (17 September 2016). "The top 40 public high schools in NYC".
- 1 2 "N.B.A. Pipeline Bypassing New York for New Jersey". The New York Times. 19 December 2012.
- ↑ "Ronald Naclerio Register Statistics & History - Baseball-Reference.com".
- 1 2 3 4 Braziller, Zach (1 February 2011). "Cardozo's Ron Naclerio picks up 600th victory".
- ↑ "1980 GCL White Sox Statistics -- Register - Baseball-Reference.com".
- ↑ "Cardozo's Ron Naclerio sets PSAL wins record". Retrieved 5 October 2016.
- ↑ "Diary of A Mad Coach, Part 1".
- 1 2 "Cardozo HS coach Naclerio sets PSAL record with 723rd win".
- ↑ "Cardozo's Ron Naclerio is real life "White Shadow" of NYC".
- ↑ "Too Good for His Own Good". The New York Times. 23 December 1990.
- ↑ "Temple Player on Center Stage, at Last". The New York Times. 13 January 1990.
- ↑ "A Point Guard Leaves in Order to Go Back Home". The New York Times. 25 November 1994.