Terry Martin was a member of the Warren Grammar School baseball team that captured the 1921 and 1922 State Grammar School Baseball Championships.  He also played for the Warren High School squad that played an independent schedule from 1923 to 1926.  Their 12-5 record in his junior year included victories over Blackstone, Burrillville, Central Falls, Colt Memorial, Cumberland, Dartmouth, East Greenwich, and Holy Family.

The Warren Gazette once had this to say about the school’s senior basketball captain: “Martin was easily the star for Warren (against Barrington) with three long shots from the floor which were as pretty shots as have been seen on the Armory floor for many a day.”

Warren High did not have a football team while Terry was enrolled there.  But over a twenty-five year period, he was the quarterback and “fast and clever” defensive end, as well as coach and treasurer of the town team that played under such varied monikers as the Wanderers, Life Savers, Narries, and Townies.

All games were not reported in the press, but in the ‘20s and early ‘30s, the town team amassed at least thirty shutouts.  In 1923 Terry, then a high school sophomore, helped defeat the Richardson Club of Providence, 6-0, for the 125-pound State Championship.  Richardson, which came into the game with a point spread of two hundred and twelve points for and none against, lost for the first time in three years.

In 1925 Terry starred in a win over Mount Pleasant, likewise the Mount’s first loss in three seasons, and six years later he quarterbacked the Wanderers eleven that was named one of the top four football teams in Rhode Island.  They then played in the Knute Rockne Memorial game and defeated the Pawtucket Rosewoods, 7-0, at the Providence Cycledrome.

He was a member of the Warren Townies basketball team that captured the 1929 Bristol County title with a two-game sweep of Bristol’s National Industrial Rubber five.  His Kid Hope’s five reached the 1930 state semifinals, while his 1936 Narries squad won the local National Youth Administration title with a close triumph over the Centrals.  The Gazette had this to say about the latter victory: “Martin, who hung up his togs in 1932 only to don them again this season, proved to be the ace in the hole.”  

When the Warren High Lettermen’s (W) Club was organized in 1932, Terry was named the club president.  He held that position until 1939, when he was succeeded by fellow Hall of Fame member Donat Brochu.

Little League baseball came to Warren in 1952.  Terry served as one of the four charter managers (with Plum Mello as his coach) and led the Red Sox for a number of seasons.

Pictures from Hall of Fame Archives