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God, Family & Basketball: The 50-year career of St. Joseph High School coach Vito Montelli
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About God, Family & Basketball: The 50-year Career Of
Product Description Vito Montelli is New England and Connecticut's all-time winningest basketball coach, going 878-329. He coached in 1,207 game and is the only Connecticut and New England coach to surpass 850 wins. His teams won 11 Connecticut state championships, were runner-up six times and lost in the semifinals six times.There have been just five losing seasons in Montelli's 50-year coaching career at St. Joseph. A total of 33 players were named to the All-State team and 27 were named McDonald's All-Americans.But those are just numbers. What makes this biography of the 88-year-old legend is the life he led, the son of Italian immigrants working hard to find their way in a new land. We talk about his life growing up, how much sports meant to him and how he got involved in coaching at a young age.He's a great family man with a wonderful wife and successful children. He's also, much to the delight of every reader, a wonderful story-teller. About the Author Chris Elsberry was a sportswriter and sports columnist at first, the Bridgeport Post-Telegram and later, the Connecticut Post from September of 1984 until October of 2018. He covered just about everything throughout the region, state and country from basketball to baseball, football to tennis, golf to lacrosse and even jai alai. He covered the New York Giants in two Super Bowls, reported on seven Belmont Stakes (sadly, no Triple Crown winners) and watched the New York Yankees play in six World Series. He was a member of the Baseball Writers Association of America (BBWAA) for 30 years and voted for the Hall of Fame for 20 years. He covered men's World Cup soccer in 1994 and women's World Cup Soccer in 1999. He covered the Hartford Whalers, New York Rangers and New York Islanders, along with the Stanley Cup playoffs. He also covered the New York Knicks in both the regular season and in the NBA playoffs. He's been to seven NCAA Women's Final Fours. He survived the 1989 San Francisco earthquake and in that same year, saw 15 kids from Trumbull shock Taiwan to win the Little League World Series. He covered the Greater Hartford Open, the Buick Championship and the Travelers Championship golf tournaments, the Volvo International, the Pilot Pen International and the New Haven Open at Yale tennis tournaments, seeing two four-time champs, Venus Williams and Caroline Wozniacki. He watched a rainbow appear overhead when Davis Love III won the 1997 PGA Championship at Winged Foot, watched Tiger Woods win as darkness covered the course at the U.S. Open at Bethpage in 2002, and saw the greatest comeback ever by the United States team in the 1999 Ryder Cup. Elsberry lives in Bridgeport, Connecticut with his wife of nearly 40 years, Lorelei, his two children Robyn and Stephen and their dogs Max and CoCo.
