Mourning in the world of city sport and beyond. Angelo Vitale (pictured), former football player and baseball manager, passed away at the age of 84. He is also responsible for the arrival in our city of the sport born in America of the ‘beat and run’. Angelo, a native of the Roman province, had seen the real and …
Mourning in the world of city sport and beyond. Angelo Vitale (pictured), former football player and baseball manager, passed away at the age of 84. He is also responsible for the arrival in our city of the sport born in America of the ‘beat and run’. Angelo, a native of the Roman province, had seen the real birth of baseball in our country after the landing of the Americans in Anzio. In fact, in the newly liberated Italy, the first matches were organized in Nettuno and then at the “Motovelodromo Appio” in Rome, right next to his home. It was love at first sight.
Angelo Vitale then came to Massa with his family, passing on his passion for baseball to his son Diego, who became the intentional referee of softball (women’s baseball) and president of the Csi (Italian Sports Center) Massa-Carrara. Angelo was for many years a manager accompanying the ABC Baseball youth teams and then moved, when his son Diego began his refereeing career, in the same role with the girls of the Futura Softball until the early 2000s. A great manager.
But previously he was also a footballer, having played as a full-back in the youth categories of his beloved Lazio, of which he was a longtime fan, before being shot on loan in Serie C in that Potenza which will then also see the exploits of Roberto Boninsegna. The world of Apuan sports, and in particular baseball and softball, brings back Angelo with great esteem and affection and joins the condolences of Diego and his whole family.
The last greeting is scheduled for this afternoon, at 3 pm, in the Corpus Domini church in viale Roma in Massa.
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