Brooklyn, NY - Manhattan College alum and former baseball and basketball standout for the Jaspers Tim Leary '67 died Tuesday, February 13 at the age of 73. The following is an article on his passing by Joseph Staszewski of The New York Post:
Legendary St. Francis Prep boys basketball coach Tim Leary died Tuesday morning after a more than year-long battle with gallbladder cancer. He was 73. Leary died at Mount Sinai Hospital in Brooklyn, according to the school.
The Brooklyn native spent 43 seasons as the Terriers' head coach and won 646 games, according to the New York Sportswriters Association, before retiring after last season.
He won the New York Catholic League's Class A Championship in 1992 and reached the AA final in 1997, losing to Metta World Peace (then Ron Artest) and La Salle Academy. Leary is a member of the New York State Basketball Hall of Fame.
"You can talk about legendary coaches — there are a lot of them — but he definitely has to be on the top of the list in terms of the best high school coaches around," St. Francis Prep athletic director Sal Fischetti said.
Continue reading at nypost.com.
