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Coming to Fox Sports Live at Ballpark Village in downtown St Louis on July 22, 2018. The movie will be shown at 7:00 pm followed by a panel discussion including the director of the film Roberto Angotti. FOX Sports Midwest Live! is the central gathering place and entertainment plaza of Ballpark Village with two levels and 20,000 square feet of enter...

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July 8 (Sunday) 4:00 pm: Brooklyn Cyclones Italian Cultural Night. The Brooklyn Cyclones are hosting their annual Italian Cultural Night! This will be a night of celebrating our Italian heritage, with restaurants, bakeries, and other Italian businesses from all over Brooklyn to participate.There will be live Italian entertainment, as well as events...

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The LaFesta Baseball Exchange, a North Adams youth baseball staple, holds its Pasta & Meatballs Dinner on Thursday, June 28, to fundraise for their annual baseball exchange series between North Adams and the North End of Boston. In its 28th season, the LaFesta Baseball Exchange celebrates its 100th game played this year. Several hundreds of kids fr...

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Pitt made the change in leadership atop its baseball program official Friday, releasing a statement from coach Joe Jordano stating he resigned after 21 seasons, 1,112 games and 588 victories. The statement came one week after he tweeted that he is looking forward to the 2018-19 season. "I am honored to have had the opportunity to lead this program...

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MLB ambassador John Franco and former Italian Baseball League veteran Mark Cardillo have joined forces to work with Team Italy U15 manager Roberto De Franceschi on two clinics to help the young and talented baseball squad at the Acqua Acetosa Sport Center in Rome on July 19, 2018 and Steno Borghese Stadium in Nettuno on July 20, 2018. John FRANCO p...

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Ciao from Rome, welcome to the #104 magazine of We the Italians! While We the Italians is working for great news, which we hope to be able to announce soon, this month we have been part of three important events here in Italy.

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While the story of the relationship between the Italian Americans and baseball (which we have already told you in numbers 89 and 90 of We the Italians) has left significant traces, in the long and fascinating history of baseball, the national pastime, only seven players born in Italy have landed in the Major League. This is the number: even if, tha...

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It’s a 140 mile drive from Yankee Stadium to the New York State Capitol Building in Albany. And during the last few weeks, the state house has felt a bit like the post-retirement reunion spot for former pinstripes wearers. Just a week after former catcher and manager Joe Girardi visited lawmakers on a quest to get lawmakers to give Major League Bas...

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Join the Brooklyn Cyclones minor league baseball team for their Italian Cultural Night on Sunday, July 8 at 4 p.m. for their game against Yankees Staten Island! The event will include food from local Italian restaurants and vendors, a “Best Sauce” Contest and a “Nonna of the Game” Contest, a cannoli-eating competition, and Italian music and enterta...

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You get an idea of what life is like right now for Mike Piazza when the phone call is interrupted by an occasional shout out of, “Ciao!” The Hall of Fame baseball player, raised in Pennsylvania and celebrated from Los Angeles to New York, now lives the sort of life that is the thing of novels or comedic films. And he will impart his words of wisdom...

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