Baseballissimo

Baseballissimo
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Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
Total Pages : 362
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ISBN-10 : 9781551996769
ISBN-13 : 1551996766
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Book Synopsis Baseballissimo by : Dave Bidini

Download or read book Baseballissimo written by Dave Bidini and published by McClelland & Stewart. This book was released on 2011-12-21 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the spring of 2002, Dave Bidini set off for Nettuno, Italy, with his wife, Janet, and their two small children, in search of his favourite summer game, baseball. Nettuno was his destination because this town, south of Rome, has been the baseball capital of Italy since 1944, when the game was introduced by the American GIs who liberated the region. Bidini wanted to spend time in a town where everyone is as nuts about the game as he is, and in Nettuno, they love the game so much that they hand out baseball gloves and bats to children taking their first communion. For six months Bidini followed the fortunes of the Serie B Peones, Nettunese to the core. At the same time he was also learning about his own heritage, having spent his youth vigorously ignoring his Italianness. The result of his summer in Italy is vintage Bidini: a funny, perceptive, and engrossing book that takes readers far beyond the professional sport to the game that people around the world love to play.


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