“It’s all about baseball in Nettuno,” former player Giampaolo Faccendini said in the "City of Baseball" documentary. “I don’t know why, it’s something in the air. In the water.” When you think of Italy, baseball probably isn't the first thing that comes to mind.

There's pizza, there's pasta, there's wine, there's Rome, there's soccer, there's Leonardo da Vinci and Roberto Benigni. But there are some small pockets of hardball-loving towns. One of the more famous is a place down along Italy's southwest coast. It's about an hour from Rome, home to about 50,000 people. It's a vacation spot along the Tyrrhenian Sea.