- Date Of Birth: April 16, 1938
- Date Of Death: July 5, 2019
- State: Connecticut
David Anthony Power
April 16, 1938 – July 5, 2019
David Anthony Power, 81, of Port Charlotte, Florida passed away Friday, July 5, 2019 at Fawcett Memorial Hospital in Port Charlotte, FL following a month-long series of medical crises. At his side through his final days was his former wife and best friend, Carmen M. (Mary-Day) Power.
David was born in Norwalk, CT, on April 16, 1938.
From the beginning, his generosity extended to his commitment to giving baseball players with marginal skills an opportunity to play ball. He believed in the beauty of playing the game, not the win-loss record. For years starting in his mid-sixties, he travelled back to Miami once a month to take hitting lessons from a retired professional baseball player. He became well-known in regional amateur baseball circles as the only eighty-year-old who could hit a seventy-five mile per hour fastball. David was known for his generosity of spirit. Back in Norwalk he donated uniforms to an all-Black team that wanted to get into the City League. In Miami and throughout his baseball career he was color blind in his choice of players for his teams. Whenever he was on his route selling auto parts to independent garages and he would stop for a quick lunch, he often bought something extra for the various homeless people he would encounter daily.
David was pre-deceased by his parents, John and Gertrude Power, as well as his sister Elaine. He is survived by his three daughters, Yvette, Suzanne, and Lizandra, and his former wife and best friend Carmen (Mary-Day) Power. He is also survived by a brother and sister-in-law, Brian and Kathryn Power, in Rhode Island, and his cousin Ellen D’Angelo of Waterbury, CT, and seven grandchildren.
