by Dan Epstein

Lenny Randle is a man on a mission. "I'm trying to find the next Joe DiMaggio," he says. "I'm gonna bring the next Mike Piazza, the next Roy Campanella, the next Yogi Berra over to America."

Sure, everybody in baseball wants to discover prospects with Hall of Fame potential. But Randle believes he'll find them in a country that's thus far been almost entirely ignored by MLB scouts: Italy.

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