Carl Yastrzemski (baseball), Keith Hernandez (baseball) and Daniel Green Jr. (basketball) are among the most storied athletes of all time.Green is only one of four NBA players to win championships on three different teams.

Hernandez, a storied Met, was a five-time all-star and league MVP.Yastrzemski is an 18-time all-star, second all-time in games played, the Red Sox’s all-time leading hitter, and a first ballot Hall of Fame inductee.

Yastrzemski, Hernandez and Green have something else in common besides greatness.All are inductees into the Suffolk Sports Hall of Fame (HOF).

On Monday, May 4, four Bayport-Blue Point High School inductees to the Suffolk Sports Hall of Fame were honored where they are best remembered, at the Bayport-Blue Point Public Library:

Present for the induction were inductees’ families, Brookhaven deputy supervisor and Blue Point resident Neil Foley, Bayport-Blue Point Library director Mike Firestone, library board president Ronny Devine and other guests.

The ribbon cutting and display launch is part of the third reincarnation of the storied Suffolk Sports Hall of Fame.The display will be available to Bayport-Blue Point Library patrons soon.The ceremony also marks the realization of Bayport-Blue Point’s guiding vision to become a community wellspring.

That dream was formulated even before the Urseline Convent was converted to the county’s most beautiful public library (2019) and before the Suffolk Sports Hall of Fame (HOF) was created (1990).

The Suffolk Sports Hall of Fame (HOF) honors “outstanding people who have made substantial contributions” in athletics.The HOF was a brick-and-mortar office located in Patchogue (the home district of its founder, Gaetano “Butch” Dellecave) until 2013.Reborn when the office closed, exhibits were created at Fairfield Properties Ballpark (LI Ducks), the Town of Huntington Townhall, at Section XI offices in Farmingville, at Long Island Sports and Rehabilitation in Holbrook and at Long Island MacArthur Airport.

The Suffolk County Hall of Fame has been reborn again, this time at a location much closer to home.Home really is where the heart is.

Last spring, talks began between the Suffolk County Library Association and the Suffolk Sports Hall of Fame.2005 HOF inductee and Sayville graduate, Jamie LaBelle, wanted to bring inductions to the grassroots, their hometown.

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