Thirty-five years after his graduation from Warren High, Mert Caton pitched two complete game wins for his Rhode Island Senior Baseball League title team as they captured the 2002 United States World Series Championship.  (In Rhode Island he had been named the league’s Most Valuable Player and the winner of the Cy Young Award.)  The following year his nine captured 4^th place in the World Series, with Mert throwing a complete game victory over the eventual winners.

He was a two-time Little League Baseball All Star, a member of Warren High School’s 1966 Class D Football Co-Champions, and the first team All Interscholastic League Eastern Division pitcher in 1967.

In softball Mert played for the Old Ironsides/Mr. T’s teams that captured more than ten Warren Slow-Pitch League championships, in the process being named an All Star on numerous occasions and the playoff Most Valuable Player in 1978.

He starred for many softball tourney title teams, including the 1990 Rhode Island USSSA Class D Champions New England Tool nine that was ranked 7^th nationally.

Mert was ranked eighteenth in Rhode Island duckpin bowling in 1980, after earlier being named a Fall River League All Star from 1969 to 1971.  He has rolled the high average in the Ditty Drainville Duckpin Bowling League for sixteen consecutive years, starting in 1989 and continuing through this past year.

Later in life Mert also took up golf and, in the last decade, has won more than ten individual or team championships in Rhode Island and Southeastern Massachusetts.

(While practicing pickoff throws at Warren High, Mert turned, threw to second, and saw the ball tick off Tom Drainville’s glove and hit him in the head – not once, but twice.  Charlie Burdge never practiced pickoffs again that season.)

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