STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Going into St. Peter’s Boys High School in the mid 1960s, Carmine Ragucci had no interest whatsoever in running/track & field.

“I wanted to get on the baseball team,” said Ragucci.

“But I was already hanging around kids I shouldn’t have been with.”

That association and the accompanying delinquency led to Ragucci getting caught by a plain clothes staffer who also happened to be the school’s freshman track coach.

It was through this incident that Ragucci would meet head coach John Tobin.

“One of the greatest men I’ve ever known.”

Now Ragucci will be cemented alongside his late coach’s legacy.

“My family and I are proud to be awarding Carmine Ragucci with the annual John Tobin Memorial Service Award,” said Tobin’s widow, Alice.

“Carmine has passed through differ

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