An All State shortstop, Chico Andrade starred on Charlie Burdge’s last two championship teams, the 1956 Eastern Division Baseball Co-Champions and the 1956 Class C Football Co-Champions.

In Little League Baseball’s initial season of 1952, Chico pitched and played shortstop for the Champions Yankees.  He was the league’s third leading hitter at .439.

Moving on to Babe Ruth baseball he played for the Bristol County All Stars who won the Rhode Island Championship and competed in the finals of the 1953 New England Championship.

At Warren High School he was in the starting baseball lineup as a freshman, received Eastern Division honors as a sophomore, and was named All Eastern Division and All State in 1956.  That year the Redskins finished as the Eastern Division Co-Champions with St. Raphael.  (Also competing in this mostly Class A and B Division were Barrington, Colt Memorial, De La Salle, Pawtucket West, Rogers, St. Raphael’s, and Tolman.)  He started 1957 recovering from mononucleosis, but still hit .383, had an earned run average of 1.14, and again garnered Eastern Division honors.  Chico pitched a no-hitter versus Tolman, losing a perfect game on a ground ball error with two outs in the last innings.

Kearney Post of Bristol sponsored an American Legion Baseball team in the mid-1950s that consisted of players from both Warren and Bristol.  Chico starred on the 1955 and 1956 squads that captured the Southern Division Championships before falling in the final game of the state playoffs.

As a child he had fallen on a train rail that caved in his chest.  Therefore, he did not play football until his senior year, when Charlie Burdge encased him in rubber padding and made him look like a two hundred pound tailback.  Passing and running for three touchdowns in a victory over Colt Memorial, he helped lead Warren High to the Class C Co-Championship (with East Greenwich).  For his efforts, he was named an All Class C back.

During 1956 and 1957 he starred in six consecutive baseball, basketball, and football wins over Bristol’s Colt Memorial, the only time that the Redskins ever accomplished this feat.

Upon graduation he joined the Federal Engineers/Smith’s Drug fast-pitch softball team as its third baseman.  That legendary squad won six championships in succession from 1956 to 1961.

Chico was active in the Midget and Pop Warner Football Leagues starting in 1959.  He was the co-head coach of the 1976 Junior Midgets eleven that won the Eastern Division Co-Championship.  He served Little League Baseball as a coach of the Red Sox, the league secretary, and an All Stars coach.

While he was a town councilman, the Warren Recreation Board was created on his initiative.  In recognition of this fact, Chico was named the Board’s first ex-officio member in 1969.

In 1979 he reported on Warren High and Pop Warner football for the Warren Times-Gazette.

Picture from Hall of Fame archives