Education
Sczesny graduated from Bishop Loughlin Memorial High School in Brooklyn, and attended Saint John"s University.
Sczesny graduated from Bishop Loughlin Memorial High School in Brooklyn, and attended Saint John"s University.
Sczesny, a native of Flushing, New York, spent 55 years in baseball, all of them in the Red Sox organization. He signed with the Red Sox in 1954 and played in their farm system through 1959, except for the 1957 campaign, which he missed while performing military service. However, he handled many future Major Leaguers as a skipper of Class A farm clubs in the Red Sox chain, until 1970, his final season in uniform, when he served as the first manager in the history of the Pawtucket Red Sox, then Boston"s Double-A Eastern League affiliate.
In 1971, he became a scout for the Red Sox, based in Deer Park, New York, on Long Island.
Sczesny scouted and signed future Red Sox stars Mo Vaughn, Bob Stanley and John Valentin, among others He died at age 76 from cancer in West Islip, New York, on January 3, 2009.
He was named a member of the 1955 Sally League All-Star team as an infielder, while a member of the Montgomery Rebels. In 2003, he switched from being an "area scout" tracking amateur high school and college talent to a member of the Red Sox" professional scouting corps, serving through the 2008 campaign.