Mario Salvini
Mario was born in Parma. He played in the Italian national youth baseball team and has worked for Gazzetta dello Sport since 2002. In 2021 he wrote "Il Diamante è per Sempre - Dieci Storie per innamorarsi del baseball," winner of the Invictus Sports Literature Award "because in addition to MLB he tells about our emigration." His stories are on the blog Chepalle.gazzetta.it and on the Facebook and Instagram pages @Chepalleblog
IT and US: Italy World Champion 1948
As you may know, Italy has played the World Baseball Classic with a national team composed mainly of Italian American players. If the WBC had existed say roughly 75 years, we would have been a kind of DREAM TEAM. I looked a little bit at all those faces of Italians who are no longer there. I saw the Italy of 1948 and told about it on Che Palle! blo...