The Hall of Fame’s contributor category is intended to honor those individuals who brighten the town’s sport scene by participating as league officers or sponsors, game officials, managers, coaches, and/or members of Warren Community Services or the Warren Recreation Board.

 Youth Football Coach 1957 Richie Mello on left.

Richie Mello left his prints all over Warren athletics.  In youth baseball he served as an umpire in the Little League and Babe Ruth League, was a vice president of the Little League, and acted as either a manager or coach of the Little League for eight seasons.  His 1973 Mets team captured the league championship, while he also managed Majors All Star squads.

He was the Vice President of Little League Football at its inception, coached in three separate decades (including the Eagles in the inaugural season), and served as a game official in the 1960s.

For more than twenty summer seasons he was an umpire in the Warren Softball League.  And for a number of years he was a member of the Warren Recreation Board, serving as its chairman in 1972-1973.

Pictures from Hall of Fame archives