John DeMagistris

 

Elected : USSSA New York Hall Of Fame in 2012
Inducted : March 2013, Rochester, NY

 John was born and raised in Rochester, NY where he attended EastridgeHS and played baseball, football and basketball. John has been married to his wife Beverly for 27 years and together has raised a wonderful family, sons Brian, Danny, Michael, daughter Amy and has two grandchildren, Justin and Alisha.

John’s whole career has been associated with USSSA as a player, manager, umpire and currently as a Director. John started playing adult slow pitch softball at the age of 16 at Edgerton Park in the Gauss Sporting Goods Men’s League. He has played softball for over 40 years and continues to play senior softball with the Pace Team. John played with some of the great teams in the 70’s and 80’s, Proietti’s, Mazzola/Castle, Garage Door, Trimaldi’sand ABC Collision/Lyell Exchange Lumber. He has played in numerous World Tournaments and has been selected to the All World Team eleven times. He was elected into the Rochester Softball Hall of Fame in 2006.

John managed the Tutsand Falloneteams from 1994 – 1999 which started playing in the USSSA D division and then moved up to C and then finishing 5th in the USSSA B World Series in Texas in 1998.

In 2000, John joined SORA (Sports Officials of the Rochester Area) as an umpire. He is extremely grateful to Gary Godden and Bob Reed to be given the opportunity to travel all over the country and umpire in USSSA World Series Events. He has worked the Men’s, Women’s, Black American and Military World Tournaments many times and this has allowed him to meet and develop  great friendships across the country with Rick Martz, Dale McGregor and Bob Holland to name only a few.

John was appointed an USSSA Area Director in 2003 and then the USSSA NYS Baseball Director in 2010. He continues to grow USSSA in all sports not only in Rochester, but throughout the whole state. Rochester has increased in every sport, softball, baseball, fast pitch, flag football, basketball and kickball in 2012. John was awarded the USSSA Baseball Director of the year in 2012 at the USSSA National Convention in Temecula, Ca.

None of this would have been possible without the support of all the SORA Officials. John has built many great friendships and relationship over the years, a special thanks to James, Sam, Mike, Tim, Jose, Al, Mark and Paul.

Thank you to my loving wife Beverly and my whole family for supporting me all these years and letting me do something that I truly enjoy.