Al ( Al G ) Guglielmo

  

 

Elected : USSSA New York Hall Of Fame in 2010
Inducted : 2011, Syracuser, NY

Al was born in the Bronx, NY, in 1951.  He moved to Long Island at an early age and graduated from New Hyde Memorial High School in 1969.  He attended Cortland State University and graduated in 1973 with a Bachelor of Science degree in Physical Education.  He earned his graduate degree from Oswego State University in 1978.

Al began his teaching career at LyncourtSchool in Syracuse, NY in 1974 and remained there throughout his entire career, retiring in 2007. Al and his wife of 25 years, Diane have two children, a son Stephen , and a daughter Kathryn.  They are the most important  people in his life.

Sports always played a major role throughout his youth, and into high school and college. That has continued into his senior softball years.  Al has played in several World Series of amateur baseball, Little League, Semi-pro baseball and Senior Softball. 

Playing sports has taken him all across the country, culminating in the winning of the Grand Slam of Senior Softball in Phoenix, AZ, in 2008. He also won a World Championship in 2001 playing in Manassas, VA, for the Syracuse Merchants, who he still plays for.  Al has been selected to many all-tournament teams and was voted as the MVP of his college, semi-pro and senior softball teams. He has achieved many individual awards but the highlight of his career was playing amateur baseball on Long Island with his younger brother, Frank, and his father in the same outfield.  Playing baseball and softball his entire life has enabled him to establish friendships that he feels will keep him forever young, because as he states, “We are just bigger and older kids playing the game that we love.”