Chairman of the Warren Athletic Hall of Fame since 1998, Jack has been the cornerstone and the committee's most influential leader.

In that role Jack edited the Hall of Fame’s 2003 publication, "A Diary of 101 Years of Warren Athletics."

A member of Charlie Burdge’s last baseball championship team, Jack Flynn coached two Little League Baseball titlists and served as the game scout for six of Pat Abbruzzi’s championship football teams.

Jack was the first baseman for Warren High School’s 1956 Eastern Division Co-Champions (with St. Raphael).  He just missed “winning” the state batting title with an average of .190.

While in high school he also served as the statistician of the basketball and football teams.  His service coincided with Charlie Burdge’s last football title, the 1956 Class C co-championship that was shared with East Greenwich.

Following graduation he joined the Federal Engineers/Smith’s Drug fast-pitch softball team that won six championships in succession from 1956 to 1961.

In tennis Jack reached the finals of the 1961 town tournament even though he never played a match.  (His opponents defaulted for a variety of reasons.)  In the finals he was annihilated by his brother Tom, who had beaten all of the good tennis players in the other bracket.

Immediately after graduation from high school, he also became involved with Little League Baseball as a coach and/or manager.  Between 1957 and 1965 he coached two All Star teams and two league championships nines, the Senators of 1959 and 1960.

In a ten-year period, partially coinciding with his education at Providence College, Jack served the Warren Alumni and Booster Club as its president, vice president, and banquets toastmaster.

He was also involved in a number of other athletic activities, including the following: Warren Men’s Basketball League scorer and timer, Warren Midget Football League referee, Warren High School basketball scout (for Nick Cariglia), Warren High School baseball assistant coach (for Charlie Burdge), co-chairman with Henry Correia of the Warren Summer Festival Softball Tourney, and co-chairman with Pat Abbruzzi of the first annual Warren Boccia Tournament.

As noted earlier, during 1961 he became the game scout for Pat Abbruzzi’s Warren High School football team and served in that position until 1977.  During those seventeen years the Redskins captured six championships.

Jack and Chico Andrade were the two members of the Town Council’s Recreation subcommittee when the Recreation Board was formed in the late 1960s.

Picture from Hall of Fame archives