Tony Zonca

Zonca, a longtime sports writer, columnist and editor for the Reading Eagle, mainly covered the Reading Phillies, Philadelphia Phillies, Philadelphia 76ers and Philadelphia Eagles. He also covered heavyweight boxing champion Muhammad Ali when Ali trained at Deer Lake in Schuylkill County. Zonca played football, basketball and baseball at Lansford High School from 1953-57 and played football, basketball and volleyball as a Marine while stationed at Camp Lejeune, N.C. He served as an assistant basketball coach at Reading High, Muhlenberg and Alvernia University and once served as assistant general manager and public relations director for the Hamburg Bullets of the Eastern Basketball League. He recently wrote a book on the history of Reading High basketball. He has been inducted into the Berks County Tennis Hall of Fame and the Carbon County Chapter of the Pennsylvania Sports Hall of Fame.

Deceased