Mendy Mendillo is one of a few Warren High School athletes who captained three teams in a single sports season - in his case, football, basketball, and baseball in 1946-1947.

As a sophomore, he had earned All Class C honors while playing shortstop for Warren High’s 1945 Class C and State Baseball Champions.  The following year Mendy was again recognized by Class C coaches, as the Redskins repeated as both Class C and State Baseball champs.  And in his senior season, he was named first team All Class C, while helping to lead Warren High to its third straight Class C title.  Unfortunately the team came up one game short of “three-peating” as State Baseball Champions, when they lost to La Salle in the final game of the playoffs.

In football he was named a first team All Suburban Division end in 1946, and that honor, combined with his baseball accomplishments, resulted in his being Warren High’s 1947 nominee for the Providence Journal-Bulletin Honor Roll Boy award.

Mendy also played on three consecutive Warren Twilight League championship teams: the Centrals/Massasoits nine of 1946; the Knights of Columbus 1947 team; and the 1948 Merchants. (Following his freshman year in high school, he had been a member of the Independents squad that won the 1944 Junior Twilight League Championship.) 

He played versus Bristol in the Little World Series of 1947 and 1948, starred for  the Standard Pharmacy entry in the 1949 Providence Amateur League, and helped the Warren Drugstore Cowboys capture the Barrington Twilight League title in 1950.

After a stint of military service, Mendy played baseball for the University of  Rhode Island from 1951 to 1953.  A starter at shortstop in his sophomore year, he played with fellow Hall of Famers Pat Abbruzzi and Billy Servant.

Pictures from Hall of Fame archives