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Italian Baseball - Castions della Mura Bagnaria Arsa

I love this town in Italia!

Go Lets a Modoletz!









This was my final season in Italia and my friends from Castions della Mura Bagnaria Arsa are to be remembered with fondness always!

If you look closely, you can see the baseball diamond...which was so beautiful that we hosted the European Championships for the kids...and a scout from the Tigers took pics as he'd never seen such beauty.

Hand painted scoreboard...bubbling water so pure in a stone trough...the corn stalks in left just like Field of Dreams...and an infield so sweet you couldn't get a bad hop!

In ITALIAN (translation follows) - how baseball came to Castions!
Forse è stato davanti ad un buon bicchiere di birra, o forse è stato durante una di quelle lunghe discussioni, o forse chissà… ma è sicuramente stata la passione per uno sport coinvolgente, a spingere un gruppo di giovani a fondare una associazione sportiva, che si dedichi alla pratica ed alla diffusione del baseball e del softball nel comune di Bagnaria Arsa e non solo.

In ENGLISH-
Maybe it was in front of a glass of beer, or perhaps it was during one of those lengthy discussions, or perhaps who knows… but it certainly was the passion for a sport involving, to push a group of young people to start a sporting association, which wholeheartedly devoted to the practice and dissemination of baseball and softball in the town of Bagnaria Arsa and beyond...
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