The Sports Hall of Fame

Hall of Fame

A hall of fame, wall of fame, walk of fame, walk of stars or avenue of stars is a type of attraction established for any field of endeavor to honor individuals of noteworthy achievement in that field...

 of New Jersey was established in 1988 to honor athletes, teams, events and contributors associated with the state of New Jersey

New Jersey

New Jersey is a state in the Northeastern and Middle Atlantic regions of the United States. , its population was 8,791,894. It is bordered on the north and east by the state of New York, on the southeast and south by the Atlantic Ocean, on the west by Pennsylvania and on the southwest by Delaware...

. There is currently no physical site or structure for the hall, but its members are honored with plaques that are displayed at Izod Center (known as the Continental Airlines Arena until October 2007) — in the Meadowlands Sports Complex

Meadowlands Sports Complex

The MetLife Sports Complex is a sports and entertainment facility located in East Rutherford, Bergen County, New Jersey, United States, owned and operated by the New Jersey Sports and Exposition Authority...

 — in East Rutherford

East Rutherford, New Jersey

East Rutherford is a borough in Bergen County, New Jersey. As of the 2010 United States Census, the borough population was 8,913. It is an inner-ring suburb of New York City, located west of Midtown Manhattan....

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The first group of members was inducted in May 1993. Inductees are honored in a public ceremony that takes place during New York Giants

New York Giants

The New York Giants are a professional American football team based in East Rutherford, New Jersey, representing the New York City metropolitan area. The Giants are currently members of the Eastern Division of the National Football Conference in the National Football League...

 football

American football

American football is a sport played between two teams of eleven with the objective of scoring points by advancing the ball into the opposing team's end zone. Known in the United States simply as football, it may also be referred to informally as gridiron football. The ball can be advanced by...

 games.

Inductees

• Horace Ashenfelter
  Horace Ashenfelter
  Horace Ashenfelter, III is a retired American athlete. He competed in international athletics from 1947 to 1956 after service in World War II and the completion of his degree at Penn State....
  
   (1998)
• Alvin Attles (1996)
• Rick Barry
  Rick Barry
  Richard Francis Dennis Barry III , better known as Rick Barry, is a retired American professional basketball player. He is considered by many veteran basketball observers to be one of the greatest pure small forwards of all time as a result of his very precise outside shot, uncanny court vision,...
  
   (1994)
• Bruce Baumgartner
  Bruce Baumgartner
  Bruce Robert Baumgartner is a retired American amateur wrestler and current Director of Athletics for the Edinboro University of Pennsylvania....
  
   (2001)
• Yogi Berra
  Yogi Berra
  Lawrence Peter "Yogi" Berra is a former American Major League Baseball catcher, outfielder, and manager. He played almost his entire 19-year baseball career for the New York Yankees...
  
   (1993)
• Angelo Bertelli
  Angelo Bertelli
  Angelo Bortolo Bertelli was an American football player. He won the Heisman Trophy in 1943 playing as a quarterback for the Notre Dame Fighting Irish.-Early life:...
  
   (2000)
• Joe Black
  Joe Black
  Joseph Black was an American right-handed pitcher in Negro League and Major League Baseball for the Brooklyn Dodgers, Cincinnati Redlegs, and Washington Senators who became the first black pitcher to win a World Series game, in 1952. Black died of prostate cancer at age 78.A native of Plainfield,...
  
   (2001)
• Carol Blazejowski
  Carol Blazejowski
  Carol Ann Blazejowski , nicknamed "The Blaze", is a retired women's professional basketball player and the former President and General Manager of the New York Liberty of the Women's National Basketball Association .-Family:Blazejowski is the daughter of Leon and Grace Blazejowski...
  
   (1995)
• Al Blozis
  Al Blozis
  Albert Charles Blozis was an American football player who died in World War II.-Early life:Blozis was born in Garfield, New Jersey. He attended William L. Dickinson High School in Jersey City, New Jersey where he became well known for throwing the discus and shot put...
  
   (2001)
• Bill Bradley
  Bill Bradley
  William Warren "Bill" Bradley is an American hall of fame basketball player, Rhodes scholar, and former three-term Democratic U.S. Senator from New Jersey. He ran unsuccessfully for the Democratic Party's nomination for President in the 2000 election.Bradley was born and raised in a suburb of St....
  
   (1993)
• Don Bragg
  Don Bragg
  Don Bragg was an American athlete who competed mainly in the pole vault. He competed for the United States in the men's pole vault event at the 1960 Summer Olympics held in Rome, Italy where he won the gold medal.Bragg grew up in Penns Grove, New Jersey, where he attended Penns Grove High...
  
   (1999)
• Roosevelt Brown (1994)
• Frank R. Burns
  Frank R. Burns
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   (2003)
• Dick Button
  Dick Button
  Richard Totten "Dick" Button is an American former figure skater and a well-known long-time skating television analyst. He is a two-time Olympic Champion and five-time World Champion...
  
   (1995)
• Milton Campbell
  Milton Campbell
  Milton Campbell is a former track and field athlete from the United States who mainly competes in the 400 metres.His success comes during the indoor season...
  
   (1993)
• Pete Carril
  Pete Carril
  Peter J. "Pete" Carril is a former collegiate head coach and former NBA assistant with the Sacramento Kings.-Early years:...
  
   (1998)
• Harry Carson
  Harry Carson
  Harold Donald Carson is a former American football inside linebacker who played his entire professional career for the NFL's New York Giants...
  
   (1993)
• Dean Cetrulo
  Dean Cetrulo
  Dean Cetrulo was an American Olympic fencer. He won a bronze medal in the team sabre event at the 1948 Summer Olympics.-References:...
  
   (1996)
• Deron Cherry
  Deron Cherry
  Deron Leigh Cherry is a retired professional American football strong safety who played for the Kansas City Chiefs from 1981 to 1991. Deron was a free safety and punter at Rutgers University. In 1979, he was named the team’s MVP. In 1979 and 1980, Cherry earned AP All-East honors...
  
   (1996)
• Leonard Coleman, Jr. (1998)
• Roger Cramer (2004)
• Lou Creekmur
  Lou Creekmur
  Louis Creekmur was an NFL left offensive tackle/guard for the Detroit Lions from 1950-59. He was also used as a defensive lineman in critical situations...
  
   (1999)
• Wally Dallenbach
  Wally Dallenbach, Sr.
  Wally Dallenbach, Sr. is a former long-time open-wheeled race car driver in CART from East Brunswick Township, New Jersey. He drove in 180 Indy Car races between 1965 and 1979, winning five times. He is the father of NASCAR driver and commentator, Wally Dallenbach, Jr.-Biography:Dallenbach nearly...
  
   (2004)
• Stanley Dancer
  Stanley Dancer
  Stanley Franklin Dancer was an American harness racing driver and trainer. He was the only horsemen to drive and train three Triple Crowns in horse racing. In total, he drove 23 Triple Crown winners. He was the first trainer to campaign a horse to $1 million in a career, Cardigan Bay in 1968 and...
  
   (1995)
• Ray Dandridge
  Ray Dandridge
  Raymond Emmitt Dandridge was an American third baseman in baseball's Negro leagues. He was born in Richmond, Virginia. Dandridge was one of the greatest fielders in the history of baseball, and one of the sport's greatest hitters for average, but unfortunately his name is not familiar to the...
  
   (1996)
• Bob Davies (1997)
• Leon Day
  Leon Day
  Leon Day was an American right-handed pitcher in the Negro leagues. He played for the Baltimore Black Sox, the Brooklyn & Newark Eagles, and the Baltimore Elite Giants.He was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1995....
  
   (1998)
• Al DeRogatis
  Al DeRogatis
  Albert John "Al" DeRogatis was an American football player and television and radio sportscaster.-Biography:...
  
   (1995)
• Larry Doby
  Larry Doby
  Lawrence Eugene "Larry" Doby was an American professional baseball player in the Negro leagues and Major League Baseball....
  
   (1993)
• Anne Donovan
  Anne Donovan
  Anne Donovan is an American retired basketball player and the current head coach of the women's basketball team at Seton Hall University. She was formerly an assistant coach, then interim head coach of the New York Liberty of the WNBA...
  
   (1998)
• Sid Dorfman (1998)
• Walter L. Dukes, Jr. (2002)
• Lou Duva
  Lou Duva
  Louis "Lou" Duva is a boxing trainer and manager who has handled some of the most famous boxers in the world including 19 World Champions. The Duva family have promoted boxing events in over 20 countries on six continents...
  
   (2003)
• Althea Gibson
  Althea Gibson
  Althea Gibson was a World No. 1 American sportswoman who became the first African-American woman to be a competitor on the world tennis tour and the first to win a Grand Slam title in 1956. She is sometimes referred to as "the Jackie Robinson of tennis" for breaking the color barrier...
  
   (1994)
• John A. Gibson, Sr. (2002)
• Leon Goslin (1999)
• Roosevelt Grier (1997)
• Marvin Hagler
  Marvin Hagler
  Marvelous Marvin Hagler , is a former professional boxer who was undisputed world middleweight champion between 1980 and 1987. Hagler holds the distinction of having the highest KO% of all middleweight champions at 78%...
  
   (1996)
• Franco Harris
  Franco Harris
  Franco Harris is a former American football player. He played his NFL career with the Pittsburgh Steelers and Seattle Seahawks.In the 1972 NFL Draft he was chosen by the Pittsburgh Steelers in the first round, the 13th selection overall...
  
   (1993)
• Tom Heinsohn (1993)
• Leon Hess
  Leon Hess
  Leon Hess was the founder of the Hess Corporation and the owner of the New York Jets.-Biography:Hess was born on March 13, 1914. His father was a Russian immigrant who worked as an oil delivery man in Asbury Park, New Jersey during the Great Depression.He married Norma around 1945 and they had...
  
   (1995)
• Robert Hurley
  Bobby Hurley
  Robert Matthew 'Bobby' Hurley is an American former basketball player and currently an assistant coach at Wagner College.-Biography:...
  
   (2000)
• Monte Irvin
  Monte Irvin
  Monford Merrill "Monte" Irvin is a former left fielder and right-handed batter in the Negro leagues and Major League Baseball who played with the Newark Eagles , New York Giants and Chicago Cubs .-Biography:Although born in Haleburg, Alabama, Irvin grew up in Orange, New Jersey, one of five...
  
   (1994)
• Jerry Izenberg
  Jerry Izenberg
  Jerry Izenberg is a sports journalist with the Newark, New Jersey Star-Ledger. His career with the Star-Ledger began in 1951 while he was still a student at Rutgers University, Newark, but was interrupted for several years during which he served in the Korean War...
  
   (1997)
• Ron Johnson (1998)
• Dick Kazmaier
  Dick Kazmaier
  Richard Kazmaier was an American football player for Princeton University from 1949 through 1951 and winner of the 1951 Heisman Trophy. As a halfback, kicker and quarterback, he ended his career third all time in Princeton history with over 4000 yards of offense and 55 touchdowns...
  
   (1997)
• Tom Kelly
  Tom Kelly (baseball)
  Jay Thomas Kelly , is the former manager of the Minnesota Twins baseball team from to . Currently, he serves as a Special Assistant to the General Manager for the Twins....
  
   (2002)

• Lou Lamoriello
  Lou Lamoriello
  Louis "Lou" Lamoriello is the CEO, president, and general manager of the New Jersey Devils of the National Hockey League...
  
   (2002)
• Aubrey C. Lewis (2003)
• Carl Lewis
  Carl Lewis
  Frederick Carlton "Carl" Lewis is an American former track and field athlete, who won 10 Olympic medals including 9 gold, and 10 World Championships medals, of which 8 were gold. His career spanned from 1979 when he first achieved a world ranking to 1996 when he last won an Olympic title and...
  
   (2001)
• Marty Liquori
  Marty Liquori
  Martin Liquori is an American middle distance athlete.Liquori first rose to fame when he became the third American high schooler to break the four-minute mile by running a 3:59.8 in 1967, three years after Jim Ryun first did it.He grew up in Cedar Grove, New Jersey and attended Essex Catholic...
  
   (1997)
• John Henry Lloyd
  John Henry Lloyd
  John Henry "Pop" Lloyd was an American baseball player and manager in the Negro leagues. He is generally considered the greatest shortstop in Negro league history, and both Babe Ruth and Ted Harlow, a noted sportswriter, reportedly believed Lloyd to be the greatest baseball player ever.He was a...
  
   (1998)
• Vince Lombardi
  Vince Lombardi
  Vincent Thomas "Vince" Lombardi was an American football coach. He is best known as the head coach of the Green Bay Packers during the 1960s, where he led the team to three straight league championships and five in seven years, including winning the first two Super Bowls following the 1966 and...
  
   (1993)
• Dick Lynch
  Dick Lynch
  Richard Dennis "Dick" Lynch was an American football defensive back in the National Football League for the Washington Redskins and the New York Giants. He was a one-time Pro Bowler in 1963, when he led the NFL in interceptions...
  
   (2003)
• Wellington Mara
  Wellington Mara
  Wellington Timothy Mara was the co-owner of the NFL's New York Giants from 1959 until his death, and one of the most influential and iconic figures in the history of the National Football League. He was the younger son of Tim Mara, who founded the Giants in 1925...
  
   (1995)
• George Martin (2004)
• Jack McKeon
  Jack McKeon
  John Aloysius McKeon , nicknamed Trader Jack, is a former Major League Baseball manager. In 2003, he won a World Series with the Florida Marlins...
  
   (2004)
• John McMullen
  John McMullen (engineer)
  John J. McMullen, Ph.D was a naval architect and marine engineer, and former owner of the New Jersey Devils and Houston Astros. He founded the engineering firm John J...
  
   (1996)
• Joe Medwick
  Joe Medwick
  Joseph Michael Medwick , nicknamed "Ducky", was an American Major League Baseball player. A left fielder for the St. Louis Cardinals during the "Gashouse Gang" era of the 1930s, he also played for the Brooklyn Dodgers , New York Giants , and Boston Braves...
  
   (1993)
• Debbie Meyer
  Debbie Meyer
  Deborah Elizabeth Meyer is a former American swimmer who won the 200, 400, and 800 m swimming events at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City...
  
   (1999)
• Sam Mills
  Sam Mills
  Samuel Davis "Sam" Mills, Jr. was an American football linebacker who played twelve seasons in the National Football League for the New Orleans Saints and Carolina Panthers.-Early life:...
  
   (2003)
• Steve Mizerak
  Steve Mizerak
  Steve Mizerak , nicknamed "the Miz", was a world champion pool player dominant during the 1970s and early 1980s in the game of 14.1 continuous....
  
   (2003)
• Robert E. Mulcahy III
  Robert E. Mulcahy III
  Robert Edward Mulcahy III was the director of athletics at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey.-Biography:Mulcahy attended Millburn High School in Millburn, New Jersey, and graduated from Villanova University in 1958 with a Bachelor of Arts in History...
  
   (1999)
• Renaldo Nehemiah
  Renaldo Nehemiah
  Renaldo Nehemiah is an American athlete who dominated the 110 m hurdle event from 1978 until 1981. He was the world record holder and the first man to run the high hurdles in under 13 seconds...
  
   (1999)
• Don Newcombe
  Don Newcombe
  Donald Newcombe , nicknamed "Newk", is an American former Major League Baseball right-handed starting pitcher who played for the Brooklyn/Los Angeles Dodgers , Cincinnati Reds and Cleveland Indians .Until 2011 when Detroit Tigers Pitcher Justin Verlander did it, Newcombe was the only baseball...
  
   (2000)
• Bill Parcells
  Bill Parcells
  Duane Charles "Bill" Parcells is a former American football head coach, most recently with the Dallas Cowboys from 2003 to 2006...
  
   (1997)
• Eulace Peacock
  Eulace Peacock
  Eulace Peacock was an American track and field athlete in the 1930s. Born in Dothan, Alabama and raised in New Jersey, he became a rival to Jesse Owens in many sprinting competitions...
  
   (2000)
• Drew Pearson
  Drew Pearson (American football)
  Drew Pearson is a sportscaster and former American football wide receiver for the Dallas Cowboys of the National Football League.-Early years:...
  
   (2001)
• Pelé
  Pelé
  However, Pelé has always maintained that those are mistakes, that he was actually named Edson and that he was born on 23 October 1940.), best known by his nickname Pelé , is a retired Brazilian footballer. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest football players of all time...
  
   (1999)
• Johnny Petraglin (2002)
• Willis Reed
  Willis Reed
  Willis Reed, Jr. is a retired American basketball player, coach and manager of basketball teams. He spent his entire professional playing career with the New York Knicks. In 1982, his outstanding record and achievements were recognized by his induction into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall...
  
   (2000)
• Richard J. Regan (2001)
• Jim Ringo
  Jim Ringo
  James Stephen "Jim" Ringo was a professional American football player, a Hall of Fame center and coach. He was a ten time Pro Bowler during his career....
  
   (1996)
• Phil Rizzuto
  Phil Rizzuto
  Philip Francis Rizzuto , nicknamed "The Scooter", was an American Major League Baseball shortstop. He spent his entire 13-year baseball career for the New York Yankees...
  
   (1993)
• Paul Robeson
  Paul Robeson
  Paul Leroy Robeson was an American concert singer , recording artist, actor, athlete, scholar who was an advocate for the Civil Rights Movement in the first half of the twentieth century...
  
   (1995)
• Frank B. Saul, Jr. (2004)
• Dave Sime (2004)
• Phil Simms
  Phil Simms
  Phillip Martin "Phil" Simms is a former American football quarterback, and currently a television sportscaster for the CBS network. After a standout career at Morehead State University, Simms was drafted in the first round by the New York Giants of the National Football League with the number...
  
   (1999)
• William E. Simon
  William E. Simon
  William Edward Simon was a businessman, a Secretary of Treasury of the U.S. for three years, and a philanthropist. He became the 63rd Secretary of the Treasury on May 8, 1974, during the Nixon administration. He was reappointed by President Ford and served until 1977. Outside of government, he was...
  
   (2004)
• Amos Alonzo Stagg
  Amos Alonzo Stagg
  Amos Alonzo Stagg was an American athlete and pioneering college coach in multiple sports, primarily American football...
  
   (2001)
• Andy Stanfield
  Andy Stanfield
  Andrew William Stanfield was an American sprinter and Olympic gold and silver medallist.-Biography:...
  
   (2002)
• David J. Stern (2000)
• Paul J. Tagliabue (2001)
• Lawrence Taylor
  Lawrence Taylor
  Lawrence Julius Taylor , nicknamed "L.T.", is a Hall of Fame former American football player. Taylor played his entire professional career as a linebacker for the New York Giants in the National Football League...
  
   (2000)
• Joe Theismann
  Joe Theismann
  Joseph Robert "Joe" Theismann is a former quarterback in the National Football League and Canadian Football League . He achieved his most enduring fame in his 12 seasons playing for the Washington Redskins, where he was a two-time Pro Bowler and quarterback of the winning team in Super Bowl XVII...
  
   (1995)
• Bobby Thomson
  Bobby Thomson
  Robert Brown "Bobby" Thomson was a Scottish-born American professional baseball player. Nicknamed "The Staten Island Scot", he was an outfielder and right-handed batter for the New York Giants , Milwaukee Braves , Chicago Cubs , Boston Red Sox and Baltimore Orioles .His season-ending three-run...
  
   (2000)
• Frank Tripucka
  Frank Tripucka
  Francis Joseph Tripucka is a former American collegiate and Professional Football quarterback, at Notre Dame, in the National Football League, in the Canadian Football League, and in the early American Football League.-Notre Dame Fighting Irish:Tripucka was backup quarterback to Heisman Trophy...
  
   (1999)
• Jersey Joe Walcott
  Jersey Joe Walcott
  Arnold Raymond Cream , better known as Jersey Joe Walcott, was a world heavyweight boxing champion. He broke the world's record for the oldest man to win the world's Heavyweight title when he earned it at the age of , a record that would be broken on November 5, 1994, by George Foreman, who...
  
   (1994)
• Sonny Werblin
  Sonny Werblin
  David Abraham "Sonny" Werblin was a prominent entertainment industry executive and sports impresario who was an owner of the New York Jets, Chairman of Madison Square Gardens, and who built and managed the Meadowlands Sports Complex.A graduate of Rutgers University, Werblin went to work for Music...
  
   (1997)
• Peter Westbrook
  Peter Westbrook
  Peter Westbrook is a former American sabre fencing champion, active businessman and founder of the Peter Westbrook Foundation....
  
   (2002)
• Willie Wilson
  Willie Wilson (baseball player)
  Willie James Wilson is a former Major League Baseball player for the Kansas City Royals, Oakland Athletics, and Chicago Cubs. He was an outfielder known for his speed and ability as an effective leadoff hitter....
  
   (2002)
• Alex Wojciechowicz
  Alex Wojciechowicz
  Alexander Francis Wojciechowicz was a professional American football player in the National Football League. He was an NFL Hall of Famer as an offensive lineman and linebacker for the Detroit Lions and Philadelphia Eagles....
  
   (1995)
• Lonnie Wright
  Lonnie Wright
  Lonnie Wright is a retired American professional basketball and football player. He was born in Newark, New Jersey.-High school and college:...
  
   (2003)
• George B. Young (2003)
• Elaine Zayak
  Elaine Zayak
  Elaine Kathryn Zayak is an American figure skater. She is the 1981 U.S. national champion and the 1982 World Champion. She is a 1984 Winter Olympian.-Personal life:...
  
   (2004)