Bay" award in 1996, recognizing him as the individual who has done the most to unite the citizens of Hillsborough and Pinellas counties. He also received similar community service awards from the Urban League, the Jewish National Fund, the Tampa Sports Club, Boys and Girls Clubs and the Multiple Sclerosis Society. He received an honorary monogram from the Notre Dame Monogram Club in 1999. Naimoli, who received an MBA in 1964 from Fairleigh Dickinson University, contributed $1 million in 2007 to be used towards the construction of a baseball complex at his alma mater. The gift paid for the 2011 construction of the Naimoli Family Baseball Complex on FDU's Teaneck, New Jersey campus. In 2006, Naimoli made a contribution of $5 million to his undergraduate alma mater, the University of Notre Dame, to be used towards a $24.7 million renovation project of the Edmund P. Joyce Center, an 11,418-seat multi-purpose arena that is used by the school's basketball and volleyball teams. A club / hospitality area which will include concession stands and restrooms, designed to accommodate 750 spectators, will be named for the Naimoli family. In 2009, Naimoli donated towards the construction of the Naimoli Family Athletic and Recreational Facility at New Jersey Institute of Technology. The facility will be approximately , housing courts for tennis, and will be made available for other athletic and recreational activities. Naimoli also claimed to have made many more millions of dollars' worth of "anonymous donations" to various charities. Death Naimoli was diagnosed with progressive supranuclear palsy in 2014 and died on August 25, 2019, at the age of 81. References External links Short biography 1937 births 2019 deaths John F. Kennedy High School (Paterson, New Jersey) alumni Major League Baseball owners Major League Baseball executives Fairleigh Dickinson University alumni Tampa Bay Devil Rays owners Tampa Bay Devil Rays executives University of Notre Dame alumni American people of Italian descent American company founders Businesspeople from New Jersey Sportspeople from Paterson, New Jersey 20th-century American businesspeople Neurological disease deaths in Florida Deaths from progressive supranuclear palsy