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After two weeks of Spring Training in Arizona and California under the watchful eye of Team Italy manager Federico Pizzolini and special advisor Mike Candrea, the Azzurre women's softball team returns home a winner after defeating College of the Desert by a score of 10-0 under the lights on Saturday, February 26, 2022. After eight days in Tucson, A...

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Caliendo Sports International Baseball is organizing a youth baseball development trip to Italy sponsored by the Italian American Baseball Foundation. Peter Caliendo is a veteran international baseball clinician and IABF is dedicated to youth baseball development for Italians and Americans. Mike Taverna, a supporter and member of IABF, as well as a...

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The baseball no one knew was missing rested after its 3,158-mile, coast-to-coast journey for almost seven years in a dresser drawer near the Atlantic on Massachusetts’ Cape Ann peninsula. It established residency nestled next to a cherished Little League ball once socked by the owner’s son for a homer and nearby this agreeable newcomer, a Mookie Be...

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It was 1926 and New York Yankees General Manager Ed Barrow was concerned about the number of people in Yankee Stadium. Not his players on the field, but the empty seats in the stands that could be (and should be) filled by members of the ticket-buying public who might also purchase some popcorn. Between the years of 1880-1920, more than four millio...

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Proud Italian American Anthony Iapoce has joined the Boston Red Sox as senior hitting coordinator in their player development department. He was previously the hitting coach of the Rangers (2016-2018) and Cubs (2019-2021). Iapoce was also a special assistant to the GM in Chicago from 2013-2015, where he oversaw the organization’s minor league hitti...

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It would be difficult to understate Mike Piazza's impact on multiple organizations throughout his career. For the Dodgers, he was a revelation, a family friend of Tommy Lasorda who became an icon in his own right. For the Mets, he changed the course of franchise history, becoming just the second player to enter the Hall of Fame with a Mets cap on h...

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With David Ortiz’s election to baseball’s Hall of Fame announced Tuesday, it’s natural to begin speculating on how long it might be before Cleveland sees another enshrinee in Cooperstown. It’s hard to believe that four years have already passed since Jim Thome’s election. Kenny Lofton has an outside chance if the Today’s Game Committee puts him on...

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Wednesday February 22 2022 at 7 PM CST. ICCC Houston, 1101 Milford St, Houston, Texas. Italian American Baseball Family - Award-winning documentary screening with producer Roberto Angotti followed by panel discussion. Join us to meet the producer of the award-winning documentary Italian American Baseball Family, which won the Russo Brothers Italian...

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After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, more than 600,000 Italian Americans and Italian immigrants found themselves caught in a xenophobic dragnet that involved mass surveillance, unprecedented harassment and, in some cases, secret internment. After years of isolationism, America was suddenly thrust into World War II, and at the time, the federal govern...

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When the New York Yankees acquired Joey Gallo at the 2021 MLB Trade Deadline, the storylines wrote themselves. Here was a lifelong Yankee fan (and, yes, an Italian) returning to his roots to take on the short porch and mash. Unfortunately, Gallo’s grace period in the Bronx was quite short, proving he would struggle to get by on emotional attachment...

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