A LIFETIME OF PURPOSE
To get an idea of why Siena’s Tony Rossi is still coaching at 78 years old and after 53 years in the job, you have to go back to when he was 12, growing up not too far from where he now coaches outside Albany, N.Y.
Like many baseball-mad youths, he played in his local Little League, but that wasn’t enough baseball for him, so he joined a second league called the Grasshopper League. Still not satisfied and out of other options, he simply started his own league. Not only did he find players for one team, but he went out and got sponsors lined
