STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- At a program as successful as Tottenville baseball, expectations weigh heavily.

You want heft? Think about this. The Pirates Saturday will be trying to win the public high school championship of the greatest city in the world for the 13 th time. No one ever writes a season preview that begins “Tottenville will be in the city title mix if x, y and z happen.”

Just end the sentence at “mix.”

Mike Grippo, a star Pirate in the 1990s and the head coach since 2018, doesn’t let his players or himself shrink from any of it, but has a much broader definition of what success looks like for his team, which opposes Inwood Campus for the PSAL 3A title Saturday evening at 5 at SIUH Community Park.

“This is the main focus for me, and this program, and the guys who have been in t

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