All Sports Museum and Hall of Fame of Southern New Jersey to induct local media icon

The All Sports Museum and Hall of Fame of Southern New Jersey will induct Al Morganti on Saturday, Aug. 10.

The induction ceremony will begin at 11 a.m. at the Museum, located at 7 Richie Kates Sr. Drive (formerly Burt St.) in Bridgeton.

The public is invited to attend the free event.

With a career in the national and international sports journalism field that has spanned more than six decades, Morganti was inducted into the National Hockey Hall of Fame in 2022. He was a reporter for the Philadelphia Inquirer and is a TV analyst for NBC Sports Philadelphia and a sports radio co-host on WIP.

Boxer Jersey Joe Walcott and baseball player Russell H. Bell Jr. were inducted into All Sports Museum and Hall of Fame of Southern New Jersey last month.

Tom McGurk is a regional sports reporter for the Courier-Post, The Daily Journal and Burlington County Times, covering South Jersey sports for over 30 years. If you have a sports story that needs to be told, contact him at (856) 486-2420 or email tmcgurk@gannett.com . Follow him on Twitter at @McGurkSports. Help support local journalism with a digital subscription.

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