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The Italian American Baseball Foundation is presenting Mike Piazza and the Italian National Baseball Team with its highest honor, the Tommy Lasorda Award. Piazza and several members of the 2023 Italian World Baseball Classic team will accept the honor at the 2022 IABF Gala on December 1 at Giando on the Water in Brooklyn, NY. Tickets, tables and jo...

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The New York Knicks announced today that the team has signed guard Ryan Arcidiacono to a contract. Per team policy, terms of the deal were not disclosed. Arcidiacono, 6-3, 195-pounds, holds career averages of 4.6 points, 2.1 assists and two rebounds over 17.1 minutes in 217 games (36 starts) over five seasons with Chicago and New York. He signed w...

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Roberto Angotti, Tollo, Italy-Fullerton, California Sister City International Ambassador, Laura Lasorda, daughter of Tommy and Jo Lasorda, and Felipe Ruiz, longtime personal assistant to Tommy Lasorda, moderate Lasorda Legacy Baseball Author Roundtable featuring an all-star cast on Tommy Lasorda Day.  Thursday night, September 22, 2022 at 7:30 pm i...

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Italy has won the medal table at the 2022 World Championships in rhythmic gymnastics. This is a historic first for the Bel Paese, which was able to dominate the rainbow event. Our national team returns home with 6 golds (out of the nine available), 1 silver and 2 bronzes. Before the end of the event, in fact, Italy won another gold. Taking the firs...

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From dream to reality, Sofia Raffaeli does not stop any longer at the Rhythmic Gymnastics World Championships in Bulgaria. After two golds won on the ball and hoop, the 18-year-old Italian also became world champion in the ribbon exercise and all-around, while on the clubs she won the bronze medal. "I dedicate this world title to Marche, my land, a...

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Baseball at the National Postal Museum AMHS is pleased to offer an opportunity for a guided tour of the National Postal Museum’s baseball exhibit on Sunday afternoon, October 2, 2022. The free tour will be given by the museum’s curator, Daniel A. Piazza, who recently gave the AMHS a virtual talk on Italian stamps (see related article on page 3). Th...

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For Giorgio Chiellini, all it took was one eye-opening moment for him to realize just how big soccer has gotten in the United States. Shortly after arriving at LAFC in June, following 17 trophy-filled years with Juventus, the legendary Italian defender noticed several people staring at him on the streets of Los Angeles. It was a far cry from his pr...

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Historic double gold for Italy at the Armeec Arena in Sofia, Bulgaria, where Sofia Raffaeli became world champion in the hoop and ball specialties during the Rhythmic Gymnastics World Championships. The 18-year-old from Chiaravalle (Marche, Italy), dubbed "Atomic Ant," triumphed in the hoop specialty with an explosive exercise, beating Bulgarian gy...

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The Chico Sons and Daughters of Italy hosted its 23rd annual charity golf classic.  The event includes a round of golf, plus an Italian lunch and dinner. However, meatballs aren't on the menu. They're on the golf course. Participants competed in the frozen meatball putting contest. Dozens of golfers tried to hit a hole in one with a meatball. Some...

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Italy men's volleyball is world champion for the fourth time in its history, 24 years after the last. In the final played Sunday night in Katowice, it beat Poland, the defending national champion for seven years, 3-1 in a comeback, who together with Brazil had shared the last five editions of the World Championships.In the Katowice final, Italy coa...

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