When Mike Accursi was nominated for the National Lacrosse League Hall of Fame, he figured that was as far as it would go.
The 52-year-old Pelham native had a storied 17-year NLL career that included five championships but still did not think of himself as a hall of famer.
“I knew that I was going to likely be nominated for it, and then when I got nominated, I was ‘OK, just a nomination itself is a massive accomplishment,’” Accursi said from his office at Notre Dame, where he is in his first year as vice-principal. “Then looking at the list of guys that were up for nomination, I didn’t think I was going to get in over these guys, and not downplaying what I achieved in my career, I didn’t really know, and I wasn’t really expecting to get it.”
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