Nettuno Baseball Club
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Nettuno BC 1945 | ||||
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League | Italian Baseball League | |||
Ballpark | Stadio Steno Borghese | |||
Established | 1945 | |||
Scudetti | 17 (1951, 1952, 1953, 1954, 1956, 1957, 1958, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1971, 1973, 1990, 1993, 1996, 1998, 2001) | |||
European Cup championships | 7 (1965, 1972, 1974, 1991, 1997, 2008, 2009) | |||
Former name(s) | Chlorodont Nettuno (1956–57) Algida Nettuno (1959–59) Simmenthal Nettuno (1962–65) Glen Grant Nettuno (1970–73, 1980–81) Colombo Nettuno (1974–77) Polenghi Lombardo Nettuno (1983–84) SCAC Nettuno (1988–92) Caffè Danesi Nettuno (1995–2012) | |||
Colors | Blue, red, white | |||
Manager | Ruggero Bagialemani | |||
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Nettuno BC 1945 is an Italian baseball club located in Nettuno, a comune of the Metropolitan City of Rome. The club competes in the first division (Serie A) of the Italian Baseball League. Training and home matches are held at Stadio Steno Borghese, which has a capacity of 10,000. The club currently holds the Italian baseball record for most league titles (17).[1]
History
The spread of baseball and the craze for it in Nettuno is attributable to the number of U.S. military bases present in the area after the end of World War II. U.S. soldiers stationed at the bases often played baseball and softball and involved many local Italians in their games. One of the Italian baseball pioneers, Alberto Fasano, was a Nettunese. Fasano and his friend Julius Zerella eventually founded Nettuno's first softball team – called Nettuno PS. The team's first players were: John Petrelli, Luciano Serpe, Luciano Verlezza, Manrico David, Fulvio Verlezza, Tonino Marcucci and Sergio Serpe. Their official debut was in 1946 in the First Division Male Softball championship against Milan. The nettunesi won by a score of 32–7. Nettuno PS won its first title in 1949.
In 1950, Nettuno PS became Nettuno USMC. In its first championship, the club finished second, with 12 wins out of 14. Over the next four years (1951, 1952, 1953, 1954), Nettuno USMC won 4 consecutive championships, making the Lazio region most titled of the
This club has most of the times made the
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References
- ^ "IBL – ALBO D'ORO". FIBS. January 30, 2013. Archived from the original on January 20, 2013. Retrieved January 30, 2013.