Tom Capezzuto

Thomas Anthony Capezzuto
(Tom)

• School County College of Morris, Syracuse University
• High School Bayley-Ellard Regional High School

• Born July 22, 1953 in Morristown, NJ USA
• Died March 12, 2011 in Morristown, NJ USA

Biographical Information

Tom Capezzuto was born on July 22, 1953, to Eugene A. and Josephine (Faccenda) Capezzuto, at All Souls Hospital in Morristown, NJ. He lived briefly in Syracuse, NY, and Menlo Park, NJ, before returning to Morristown, where he resided for the rest of his life. He graduated in 1972 from Bayley-Ellard Regional High School in Madison, NJ. He earned an A.A. degree from the County College of Morris in Randolph Township, NJ in 1974 in humanities/social sciences. He was an honor student at Syracuse University, where he graduated in 1976 with a B.S. degree in broadcast journalism from the renowned S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications.

He worked as a radio news announcer for WRNJ-AM in Hackettstown, NJ, in 1976, then moved to print journalism the following year, working as a news/sports reporter for Enterprise News Service in Newark, NJ. He subsequently covered the New York Yankees for the next 17 years as a nationally-published freelance writer, with numerous magazine credits that included Inside Sports, Baseball Digest, Basketball Digest, Football Digest, The Sporting News and Yankee Magazine. He also covered the New York Giants of the NFL and New Jersey Nets of the NBA periodically during the 1980s.

He was a New Jersey correspondent for the New York Times from 1982 to 1994, covering a variety of news and sports events for the New Jersey Weekly section of the Sunday New York Times. He was hired in 1994 by the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey (UMDNJ) in Newark in a media relations capacity, highlighting the research of numerous academic physicians at UMDNJ. He also gave journalism and public relations lectures at his alma mater, the County College of Morris, and at Rutgers University. He also worked as a part-time cab driver for E-Plus of Morristown starting in 1997.

According to his obituary, he played semi-pro baseball, enjoyed playing recreational basketball, and was an avid trout fisherman. He also dabbled in woodworking and photography in his spare time.

Further Reading

• Tom Capezzuto: "Jim Eisenreich: He Learned To Persevere Against Odds; Afflicted with Tourette's Syndrome, Phillies outfielder has rebuilt career after retiring in 1984", Baseball Digest, June 1996, pp. 40-42. [1]
• Tom Capezzuto: "Years of Labor Pay Off for Jeff Fassero; Eight seasons of apprenticeship helped Mariners' left-hander master the craft of pitching", Baseball Digest, August 1997, pp. 66-68 [2]