Babylon graduate being inducted into Suffolk Hall of Fame tonight

One of Suffolk's Hall of Fame's newsest inductees, Babylon High School 1943 graduagte Jerry Brown. Jerry Brown of Lindenhurst, a Babylon High School graduate in 1943, will be inducted into the Suffolk County Hall of Fame tonight. Brown, who now lives in Lindenhurst with his wife Rita, helped lead the team to two Suffolk County Championships. He pitched three no-hitters and was either the team's Most Valuable Player or co-MVP in each of his varsity seasons while being named All County each year.

In basketball, he was on the school's County Championship team in 1941, won school MVP honors the next two years and set the single season scoring record for BHS in 1943. He was class president in his freshman and sophomore years and was named to a place on the Babylon High School Wall of Fame in 2008.

Brown joins Joe DeLucca and Marty Albert as one of three Babylon grads to be honored in both the Babylon High School Wall of Fame and the Suffolk Hall of Fame. DeLucca said, "Jerry is perhaps the best athlete in Babylon history. If not, he's certainly in the top five."

For information on the Suffolk Sports Hall of Fame, call 631- 758-7463 or go to suffolksporthof@ optonline.net.