Italian baseball stadium

Baseball is becoming more popular in Europe, especially in towns with U.S. military bases. There is a U.S. Army facility on the other side of town, Caserma Ederle, home of the 173rd Airborne Brigade.

In March '05, Canadian writer Dave Bidini published a book called BASEBALLISSIMO - From the Inside Flap: "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."