In Memoriam: Daniel J. Piro
Financial Controls Officer at CMB
We were only notified in May 2025 of the death of Daniel Joseph Piro on January 27, 2010, in Oceanside, CA, of pancreatic cancer at the age of 62.
Born in New York City, Dan spent his early childhood in the Bronx and then on Long Island. He earned his BS in Math Engineering from New York University. His early career was in banking and finance, including 10 years as a financial controls officer at Chase Manhattan Bank, and then as a consultant and editor of various financial newsletters.
In the 1970s, he was a technical advisor to NBC for its award-winning documentary Banking on the Brink,”about the international debt crisis. He was fluent in Spanish and enjoyed many trips to Latin America and Spain, both on business and to visit his relatives in Argentina.
Piro’s twin passions were baseball and tournament bridge. In 1991, Piro began publishing HardBall Magazine, the official magazine of the Men’s Senior Baseball League (MSBL), of which he was a member. He also played in many bridge tournaments in the United States and Canada, earning Life Master status in his 40s, and even getting his name in The New York Times bridge column.
In 1987, Dan and his wife, Jackie, moved from New Jersey to California. Piro coached Little League and became actively involved with the Boys & Girls Club of Vista, serving on its board for several years before becoming ill. He was the driving force behind the building of the Club’s Little Padres Park baseball field and the development of its youth baseball program. Dan was inducted into the MSBL Hall of Fame in 1998 and received the MSBL’s Lifetime Achievement Award in 2009. In 2005, he was awarded “Volunteer of the Year” by the North County Philanthropy Council.
His survivors included his wife, a son and two brothers.