Billy Coppola:
CLASS OF 1966
Copiague High SchoolClass of 1966
Copiague, NY
Hudson Valley Community CollegeClass of 1968
Albany, NY
Billy's Story
Life
My Kid
Son works in LA. Editor TV shows in Hollywood. Have a 14 yr old granddaughter that I can't get enough of.
My Job
After getting out of the service in 1971, I worked in the air conditioning and refrigeration field. At one point had my own business for 10 years. Worked as a Building mechanic at the Post Office main processing plant in Melville for 23 years. I made sure the heat and A/C worked. Coached some youth baseball and even played a few years of men's Senior Baseball between ages 38 and 42 until my body told me to stop. I refereed basketball for 4 years and umpired varsity baseball for about 15 years. Again taking it too far, injuring my back. Retired from P.O. in 2012 and began working in Major League Baseball as a special assistant to Tom Giordano (Mr. G) who was working as a Major League scout for the Texas Rangers at the time. Then in 2015, we moved to the Atlanta Braves. Did a lot of traveling with all of that. Not a bad d...Expand for more
eal! Had a film crew following me and others for 3 years who are doing a movie about the life of Mr. G. When I became involved with professional baseball again I had no idea how big he was in the game. I had a chance to evaluate players at games with him. Scouting major league players for possible trades etc. and was able to become friends with many people in the sport. That has been very interesting.
Today I live in California and am writing a sports column for Latino Sports covering baseball and other sports on the West Coast, mostly the Dodgers. Had written for nysportsday.com, and the Bronx Chronicle. My former English teachers will have a laugh at that. I should have actually gone to those classes more.
I'm still tall but have no hair. Gotta be from scratching my head so much trying to figure out these computers.
I look at myself as just an ordinary person who has been fortunate to have seen and done some not-so-ordinary things in his life.
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