INVITATION
New York, N.Y. — The John Jay College of Criminal Justice baseball program is set to host its eighth annual Lou DeMartino Memorial Dinner on Fri. Jan. 29, 2010 at 6:30 p.m. in the Main Gym of the Haaran Hall located at 899 Tenth Avenue.
This year the baseball team will honor two individuals for its awards which include the Lou DeMartino Lifetime Achievement Award and The Distinguished Baseball Alumni Award. The Lifetime Achievement Award is awarded to a person in the baseball community who has dedicated years of his life to baseball, while the Distinguished Baseball Alumni Award is awarded to a John Jay alumni who played under DeMartino during his tenure.
This year’s Lou DeMartino Lifetime Achievement Award is being awarded to
Billy Blitzer, while the Distinguished Baseball Alumni Award is being awarded to
Rick Hubert (’78).
Blitzer has been a longtime affiliated with Major League Baseball. Even prior to him graduating from Hunter College in 1976, Blitzer worked for the Major League Baseball Scouting Bureau in the New York City area. He was employed by the bureau from 1975 to 1982 before working as a scout for MLB’s Chicago Cubs where he is still employed to this day.
In his thirty plus years of working as a baseball scout, Blitzer has gotten numerous baseball talents signed to Major League Baseball contracts including
Alex Arias,
Shawon Dunston,
Doug Glanville,
Derrick May,
Jamie Moyer,
Rolando Roomes,
Gary Scott,
Greg Smith, and
Pete Zoccolillo.
He has also won numerous awards through the years including the John “Honey” Russel Award in 1987, the “Turk” Karam Scout of the Year award in 1990, the Chicago Cubs Scout of the Year in 1992 and many others.
Blitzer has also been involved with numerous organizations, including the New York Professional Baseball Hot Stove League, where he served as President, Secretary-Treasurer, and the Youth Service League where he has been associated with since 1979.
Hubert was a member of the John Jay College of Criminal Justice baseball team from 1975-78, where he played a critical role in the Bloodhounds first City University of New York Athletic Conference (CUNYAC) championship in 1978. He graduated from John Jay in 1979 with a bachelors of science in Police Science.
Today, Hubert works as a Secretary-Treasurer with the International Association of Machinists, a role which he has served since 1987.
“This year’s Lou DeMartino Dinner is going to be great as always,” said John Jay head baseball coach and Director of Athletics, Dan Palumbo. “We are honoring two very special people who are very close to baseball and Lou, who committed his life to the game.”
Tickets for the dinner at $75.00 per person and all RSVPs are due by Jan. 14, 2010. Please
click here to download a copy of the RSVP.
The Lou DeMartino Dinner is an annual fund raising affair for the John Jay baseball team. The dinner was named in honor of the former coach who served as the Bloodhound skipper from 1974-99 and posted 424 career wins. He coached John Jay to nine City University of New York Athletic Conference (CUNYAC) championships and nine Knickerbocker championships, plus one Eastern Collegiate Athletic Conference (ECAC) championship.