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Baseballissimo: My Summer in the Italian Minor Leagues

Baseballissimo: My Summer in the Italian Minor Leagues


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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.

Table of Contents:
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

About the Author :
Author and musician DAVE BIDINI is the only person to have been nominated for a Gemini, Genie, and Juno as well as CBC's Canada Reads. A founding member of Rheostatics, he has written thirteen books, including On a Cold Road, Tropic of Hockey, Around the World in 57 1/2 Gigs, and Home and Away. He is a three time National magazine award-winner, and his play, The Five Hole Stories, was staged by One Yellow Rabbit Performance Company, touring the country in 2008. His most recent book is Midnight Light: A Personal Journey to the North, and he is the publisher of the West End Phoenix community newspaper in Toronto.

Review :
"Bidini is single-handedly creating his own genre of sports book: the North-American-sport-in-a-strange-land category. . . . [Bidini] illuminates the similarities between baseball as played on his home continent and his parents' home country. . . . [The] grassroots context makes Bidini's lively prose even more compelling. . . . Entertaining and often moving narrative of fellows who take to the field simply because they love the game."
Quill & Quire

"[Bidini's] journey is personal, but his knowledge of the game is wide and deep. . . . Bidini's books give sports and travel writing a charge. . . . He's hilarious and sucky-sentimental, whip-smart and naive. . . . Fans of every game should read Baseballissimo."
Georgia Straight


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780771014628
  • Publisher: McClelland & Stewart Inc.
  • Publisher Imprint: McClelland & Stewart Inc.
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 368
  • Spine Width: 25 mm
  • Weight: 374 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0771014627
  • Publisher Date: 22 Mar 2005
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Sub Title: My Summer in the Italian Minor Leagues
  • Width: 152 mm


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