Baseball Neptune in mourning. Franco Verlezza died at 88, he had been part of the team that went down in history as “The nine golden men”. The announcement was made by the Nettuno Baseball Club. “Franco Verlezza, one of our great champions who built the myth of the great Neptune in the 1950s, left us. ‘gold ”, capable of winning the baseball championship seven times between 1951 and 1958, the first seven Italian titles in the glorious history of the Nettuno Baseball Club”.
As they still write from the company where in the post-war period the overseas sporta found ample space following the landing of Anzio and the presence of the numerous military bases of the allies in the area, “Franco was born in Nettuno on May 7, 1933. Second base of great class, he was part of the first historic Italian national team in the European Nations Championship in 1954. “Baseball Reference” the most important database of statistics of players of all time in world baseball as he writes about Franco Verlezza: “It is He was a star of the first European championship. Playing at second base and third at bat in the first Italian national team. He beat 2 out of 4 in the first match against Belgium with a double. In the final of the event against Spain that gave the title to the ‘Italy, he beat 2 out of 5 with a double, a base per ball and three points scored ”.
“Hi Franco, rest in peace, you will remain forever in our hearts and everything you have done great for Italian baseball and for our history will be indelible. To the Verlezza family the warmest condolences from all the Nettuno Baseball Club 1945”.
