Italian American Ballplayers : Major League Profiles, 1920-1980

A sports history with a personal touch, this compendium of baseball profiles and remembrances highlights and celebrates some of the greatest Italian American ball players of the 20th century. This history, thoroughly illustrated with high-quality photographs, also shines a light on those lesser known but equally colorful paesani of the baseball diamond, including Berra, Campanella, DiMaggio, Furillo, Petrocelli, Santo, Torre, and more. The book will touch upon the players'' backgrounds and the eras in which they played as well as the positive cultural impact their success had on the Italian American community. Born of a young fan''s curiosity about his own ethnic background and the history of the game, the author brings a lifetime of research to this ethnic baseball history about the Italian American ball players who made an impression on the game long before he was born.