Baseballissimo : My Summer in the Italian Minor Leagues by Dave Bidini (2004,...

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ISBN
9780771014611
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Product Identifiers

Publisher
McClelland & Stewart
ISBN-10
0771014619
ISBN-13
9780771014611
eBay Product ID (ePID)
2468353

Product Key Features

Book Title
Baseballissimo : My Summer in the Italian Minor Leagues
Number of Pages
360 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2004
Topic
Europe / Italy, Baseball / Essays & Writings, Baseball / General, Essays & Travelogues
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Travel, Sports & Recreation
Author
Dave Bidini
Format
Hardcover

Dimensions

Item Height
1 in
Item Weight
23.1 Oz
Item Length
9.3 in
Item Width
6.3 in

Additional Product Features

Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2005-360440
Dewey Edition
22
Dewey Decimal
796.357/094562
Table Of Content
Nettuno Peones, 2002 Stronzo with a Smiting Pole The Pasta Ghetto Bob Dylan and the Drag Bunt Mia Palanca, Mia Nettuno at Montefiascone There Came a One-Armed Man 1975 Roma at Nettuno A Pocket of Brick and Mortar 1985 Nettuno at Salerno Nettuno at Sardinia Baseball in the Jaws of War The Eye of the Pig Montefiascone at Nettuno The Music of the Mound Father Baseball The Fires of Rome 1987 The Eternal Game Nettuno at Roma Mike the Duck Must Die Salerno at Nettuno 1992 The Italian Palermo at Nettuno If They Don't Win, It's a Shame The Night of the Wolves Coming Home Baseballissimo Epilogue: A Play at the Plate Acknowledgments
Synopsis
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., Summer is for lazing in the sun and watching baseball. Or, if you are Dave Bidini, it's for travelling to the country your ancestors came from, and watching baseball under the hot Italian sun. In the spring of 2002, Bidini set off for Nettuno, Italy, with his wife, Janet, and their two small children, in search of his favourite summer game. Nettuno was his destination because this town, south of Rome on the Tyrrhenian coast, has been the baseball capital of Italy since 1944, when the game was introduced by the American soldiers who liberated the region. Bidini wanted to spend time in a place where everyone is as nuts about the game as he is, and in Nettuno, they hand out baseball gloves and bats to children taking their first communion. The professional, Serie A, team in Nettuno is the Indians, but a severe case of the "wins" has turned it into a team stuffed with talent imported from Latin America. So 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. Baseballissimo is the glorious result of that summer in Italy. From Bidini's first comical attempts to speak Italian to his journeys with the team, readers will be caught up in the emotional roller-coaster of the Peones' season and in the escapades of Dave's family's life in Nettuno. Vintage Bidini, Baseballissimo is a funny and perceptive and compulsively readable book that takes readers, whether they are baseball fans or not, far beyond the professional sport to the game that people around the world love to play. Book jacket.
LC Classification Number
GV863.51.N48B53 2004

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