Bill Zucco was teaching at MacCarthur Middle School in 1965 when he discovered one of the greatest athletes in Anne Arundel County history.
Zucco heard a seventh grader named Louis Carter dominated all school athletic competitions and wanted to find out for himself if the kid was the real deal.
It only took a couple after-school sessions of playing catch for Zucco to realize Carter was the finest natural athlete he’d seen.
“Lou was a big, strong kid who could throw a football or baseball a mile and run like a gazelle,” Zucco told The Capital before Carter’s induction into the Anne Arundel County Sports Hall of Fame in October 1993.