Vincent and Mary Grittani opened a tavern here in 1923 and named it the "Home Run Inn" because baseballs had a way of flying out of the park across the street and shattering their front window.  Vincent and Mary had a daughter, Loretta, who married an Italian immigrant named Nick Perrino.  Nick had moved to the United States at the age of 17 and ended up serving in the armed forces during the Second World War.  At the conclusion of hostilities, he returned home looking for a job.  Meanwhile, his father-in-law Vincent had passed away in 1943, and Mary needed help running the business.  Nick, a former mess sergeant, went to work at the Home Run Inn and began baking breadsticks for the bar patrons.  The breadsticks were a big hit, so Nick and Mary began experimenting with pizza.  After settling on a recipe, they began cutting up square slices of hot pizza and giving them away to the customers.  The pizza, which debuted in 1947, was an instant sensation, and before long the Home Run Inn became a pizza parlor.  Over the ensuing six decades, and primarily under the stewardship of Nick's son Joe, the Home Run Inn began selling frozen pizzas to local grocers, expanding to new retail locations, increasing the size of their original location (it now accomodates 600 people), and creating new facilities to manage the frozen pizza distribution demand.  Today, consumers in 20 states enjoy Home Run Inn's famous thin-crust pizza.  Incidentally, Mary Grittani passed away in 1970, and Nick Perrino passed away in 1990.  The business remains in the family today.