Baseballissimo: My Summer in the Italian Minor Leagues - Rilegato

Bidini, Dave

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 0771014619 ISBN 13: 9780771014611

Casa editrice: McClelland & Stewart Ltd, 2004

Riassunto

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.

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Informazioni sull?autore

<b>Dave Bidini</b> is the rhythm guitarist for the Rheostatics and the author of <i>On a Cold Road </i>and <i>Tropic of Hockey</i>, which was adapted for television as the Gemini Award-winning documentary <i>Hockey Nomad.</i> He lives in Toronto.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: McClelland & Stewart Ltd
• Data di pubblicazione: 2004
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0771014619
• ISBN 13: 9780771014611
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 348
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile