‘Parma Spring Training’ from Sunday 6 March to Sunday 10 April 2022 will involve all the baseball and softball clubs of Parma and its surroundings to play 37 games, lasting 7 innings (maximum two hours) in the U18 category.
The conduct of the event will take place in full compliance with the rules and health protocols issued at national level and will see all the teams registered in the official A, B, C and Under18 baseball league, A1, A2 and B softball, take the field of Parma and its territory, covering the entire national championship.
The event, which has obtained the patronage of the Municipality of Parma, Fibs and Coni, in addition to the interesting sporting comparison, with its extensive program of competitions will also be a great opportunity to carry out a fundraiser between supporters, Clubs and participating players. , in favor of the charity project “Insieme con te” for the new Oncology Center of Parma. Specifically, it will contribute to the completion of the ‘Little patients in Radiotherapy’ project, in particular to the creation of a space reserved for pediatric patients, with a function not only of reception, but also of health.
A new and great appointment is approaching that will catalyze and involve all the ducal baseball thanks to the organization of the Parma Baseball School and ‘Diamanti di Parma’ which represents a unique working group in the reality of Italian baseball and softball because it is made up of fans and players belonging to to various companies of the city and neighboring municipalities that are committed to the promotion and participation of projects and events that can promote the growth and visibility of the game of baseball and softball.
1949 PARMA BASEBALL, Sala Baganza Baseball Club, Carega Park Rangers, Collecchio Baseball Softball Club, Colorno Baseball & Softball ASD, Crocetta Baseball & Junior Softball Parma Baseball Club Oltretorrente Group will be together to promote this long training as spring arrives. “This demonstration demonstrates what I have always said,” added Deputy Mayor Bosi
Parma Spring Trainig was born from the happy synergistic collaboration between all the baseball and softball sports clubs present in and around the Parma area, which for the first time find themselves working together on a common project: that of preparing players for the Championship, optimizing both the economic resources that sports facilities and equipment in general. This initiative, in addition to having a high competitive value, represents a great example of social cohesion and enhancement of the role of sporting activity as a place and vehicle for aggregation and education.
“The Department of Sport of the Municipality of Parma has always been committed to supporting sport on the territory at 360 °, in all its expressions, even the less traditional ones. Baseball and softball belong to the Parma DNA and with this initiative they show another character that characterizes us: the ability to team up, to include, to think about goals as well as the natural competitive spirit of the fields and the fences of belonging to the clubs. ” Marco Bosi underlined “This first edition of Parma Spring Training captures the resumption of sports after a long period of obstacles, it starts with an exceptional enthusiasm for this, because it will support a large and spectacular showcase of Parmesan baseball and because it will reach the very young from diamonds , who are holding the bat for a difficult battle, the proximity of the athletes and technicians. In sport and with sport nobody is alone “.
“We have pursued this project with tenacity. Since 2020, from the periods of restrictions and reflection we have experienced, we have worked to see it on Parma diamonds: now it is finally a reality and we will also have the participation of teams from London, Stuttgart and Bavaria who will stay for the whole week in Parma with opportunities for tourist tours in the city and province ”enthusiastically said Alessandro Magelli, founding member of Diamanti di Parma.
Marcello Tiseo, Head of Oncology Day Hospital of the University Hospital of Parma together with Nunzia D’Abbiero Director of Radiotherapy “thanked for the continued support, for the particular sensitivity that is shown by the Parma baseball world towards the nascent new Oncology Center. The donations that will be collected during the Parma Spring Training, in particular, will be destined to a waiting-awakening room dedicated to young patients who undergo radiotherapy. It is a project devoted to the humanization of care spaces which, especially for these children and young people, would be well set up with “transformist” environments, that is, declined at different ages: from infancy to adolescence where they can relax and recognize themselves first and after the treatments “.
Antonio Bonetti, Coni provincial delegate and Barbara Zuelli councilor of Federbaseball summarized the contents of the initiative: “This event is characterized by inclusion, education, solidarity and a beautiful sign of recovery that we have been waiting for two years. These are all important values that convey the idea of the importance and cohesion of the first edition of the Parma Spring Trainig to which we proudly wish and congratulate the organizers “.
The social channels of “Diamanti di Parma” will collect video interviews and footage of game moments, but the press, both local and national, will follow the event in order to reach a wide audience and show the involvement for baseball and softball they know how to create .
