Serie A1 (baseball)
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The Italian Baseball League (IBL) is a professional baseball
league that is governed by FIBS (Italian Baseball & Softball Federation), which has its headquarters in Rome. The IBL is a wood bat league in which both composite and aluminum bat are prohibited; the official ball of the IBL is the Wilson 1010 Italy.
The IBL, up until 2010, featured a league format that demoted and regulated the last (8th) place finisher to the minor leagues (Series A2), while the Series A2 champion would be promoted into the IBL. However, in late 2009 FIBS approved the decision to eliminate the promotion/demotion regulation system starting with the 2010 season and thus will apply a fixed team franchise format similar to that found in Major League Baseball
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The current IBL is formed by 8 teams, and the season consists of 42 games, with each team playing two 3-game series against the other 7 teams. The four teams that finish with the best regular season record qualify for a round-robin playoff. The first and second place finishers of the round-robin are cast into the best of 7 Italian Baseball Series and compete for the championship (Scudetto).
An Italian player is classified as Italian School of Baseball, or ASI, only if he has been developed in Italy or if has played 6 seasons in the Italian Leagues.
EU citizens have the same rights of the players who hold Italian citizenship but were not developed in Italy.
One particular case of the ASI rule would be a foreigner who developed as a baseball player in Italy (started playing as an U15). This is the case of a foreigner who is also an ASI, but will be able to play only respecting the limitation on import players.
In either Game 2 or Game 3, an EU pitcher may be the starting pitcher; however, IBL rules require that an ASI be the starting pitcher for 1 of these 2 remaining games. Moreover, whichever game a manager selects the ASI as the starting pitcher, then all subsequent pitchers must be ASI. Therefore, there may be ASI vs EU match-ups for the first time beginning in 2010.
Half of the teams are based in the Emilia-Romagna
region of Italy. A team from the Republic of San Marino also plays in the IBL. Like Japanese baseball, many of the official team names contain the name of the team's corporate sponsor.
Professional baseball
Baseball is a team sport which is played by several professional leagues throughout the world. In these leagues, and associated farm teams, players are selected for their talents and are paid to play for a specific team or club system....
league that is governed by FIBS (Italian Baseball & Softball Federation), which has its headquarters in Rome. The IBL is a wood bat league in which both composite and aluminum bat are prohibited; the official ball of the IBL is the Wilson 1010 Italy.
The IBL, up until 2010, featured a league format that demoted and regulated the last (8th) place finisher to the minor leagues (Series A2), while the Series A2 champion would be promoted into the IBL. However, in late 2009 FIBS approved the decision to eliminate the promotion/demotion regulation system starting with the 2010 season and thus will apply a fixed team franchise format similar to that found in Major League Baseball
Major League Baseball
Major League Baseball is the highest level of professional baseball in the United States and Canada, consisting of teams that play in the National League and the American League...
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The current IBL is formed by 8 teams, and the season consists of 42 games, with each team playing two 3-game series against the other 7 teams. The four teams that finish with the best regular season record qualify for a round-robin playoff. The first and second place finishers of the round-robin are cast into the best of 7 Italian Baseball Series and compete for the championship (Scudetto).
IBL players
For the 2010 season, FIBS will maintain the number of sport visas granted to non EU import/foreign players at 4 per team. At the same time, following EU and Olympic Committee directive, EU citizens will have the same player rights of Italian passport holders. FIBS, however, will continue to enforce the regulation on the Italian School of Baseball that imposes 6 ASI players be on the field at all times of every game, including the pitcher in either game 2 or 3 of each series.An Italian player is classified as Italian School of Baseball, or ASI, only if he has been developed in Italy or if has played 6 seasons in the Italian Leagues.
EU citizens have the same rights of the players who hold Italian citizenship but were not developed in Italy.
One particular case of the ASI rule would be a foreigner who developed as a baseball player in Italy (started playing as an U15). This is the case of a foreigner who is also an ASI, but will be able to play only respecting the limitation on import players.
3-game series format
Game 1 of each three-game series is classified as the Foreign Affair Game, with the pitcher's mound free to be occupied by each team's foreign imports or any other pitcher (ASI, EU) for that matter.In either Game 2 or Game 3, an EU pitcher may be the starting pitcher; however, IBL rules require that an ASI be the starting pitcher for 1 of these 2 remaining games. Moreover, whichever game a manager selects the ASI as the starting pitcher, then all subsequent pitchers must be ASI. Therefore, there may be ASI vs EU match-ups for the first time beginning in 2010.
Half of the teams are based in the Emilia-Romagna
Emilia-Romagna
Emilia–Romagna is an administrative region of Northern Italy comprising the two historic regions of Emilia and Romagna. The capital is Bologna; it has an area of and about 4.4 million inhabitants....
region of Italy. A team from the Republic of San Marino also plays in the IBL. Like Japanese baseball, many of the official team names contain the name of the team's corporate sponsor.
2011 IBL teams
- Caffe Danesi Nettuno (NettunoNettunoNettuno is a town and comune of the province of Rome in the Lazio region of central Italy, 60 kilometers south of Rome. It is named in honour of the Roman god Neptune...
) - Cariparma Parma (ParmaParmaParma is a city in the Italian region of Emilia-Romagna famous for its ham, its cheese, its architecture and the fine countryside around it. This is the home of the University of Parma, one of the oldest universities in the world....
) - De Angelis North East Knights (RussiRussiRussi is a comune in the Province of Ravenna in the Italian region Emilia-Romagna, located about 60 km east of Bologna and about 14 km southwest of Ravenna....
) - Montepaschi Orioles Grosseto (GrossetoGrossetoGrosseto is a city and comune in the central Italian region of Tuscany, the capital of the Province of Grosseto. The city lies 14 km from the Tyrrhenian Sea, in the Maremma, at the centre of an alluvial plain, on the Ombrone river....
) - Novara UnitedNovara UnitedNovara United are a baseball team in Serie A1, Italy's professional baseball league....
(NovaraNovaraNovara is the capital city of the province of Novara in the Piedmont region in northwest Italy, to the west of Milan. With c. 105,000 inhabitants, it is the second most populous city in Piedmont after Turin. It is an important crossroads for commercial traffic along the routes from Milan to Turin...
) - T&A San Marino (San MarinoSan MarinoSan Marino, officially the Republic of San Marino , is a state situated on the Italian Peninsula on the eastern side of the Apennine Mountains. It is an enclave surrounded by Italy. Its size is just over with an estimated population of over 30,000. Its capital is the City of San Marino...
) - Telemarket Rimini (RiminiRiminiRimini is a medium-sized city of 142,579 inhabitants in the Emilia-Romagna region of Italy, and capital city of the Province of Rimini. It is located on the Adriatic Sea, on the coast between the rivers Marecchia and Ausa...
) - UGF Fortitudo Bologna (BolognaBolognaBologna is the capital city of Emilia-Romagna, in the Po Valley of Northern Italy. The city lies between the Po River and the Apennine Mountains, more specifically, between the Reno River and the Savena River. Bologna is a lively and cosmopolitan Italian college city, with spectacular history,...
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Pre-Playoff Era
| Year | Winning Team | Runner Up | MVP |
|---|---|---|---|
| Libertas Bologna |
Milano | - | |
| Mamoli Grosseto (LIB) Lazio (FIBS) |
Ambrosiana Milano (LIB) Ferrovieri Roma Roma - Places :Italy* Rome, the capital of Italy, is called Roma in Italian and some other languages* Roma Tre University, a university located in Rome, Italy, and founded in 1992... (FIBS) |
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| Libertas Roma Roma - Places :Italy* Rome, the capital of Italy, is called Roma in Italian and some other languages* Roma Tre University, a university located in Rome, Italy, and founded in 1992... |
USCM Nettuno | - | |
| Nettuno B.C. | Libertas Roma Roma - Places :Italy* Rome, the capital of Italy, is called Roma in Italian and some other languages* Roma Tre University, a university located in Rome, Italy, and founded in 1992... |
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| Nettuno B.C. | Libertas Roma Roma - Places :Italy* Rome, the capital of Italy, is called Roma in Italian and some other languages* Roma Tre University, a university located in Rome, Italy, and founded in 1992... |
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| Nettuno B.C. | Lazio | - | |
| Nettuno B.C. | A.S. Roma Roma - Places :Italy* Rome, the capital of Italy, is called Roma in Italian and some other languages* Roma Tre University, a university located in Rome, Italy, and founded in 1992... |
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| Lazio | Nettuno | - | |
| Chlorodont Nettuno | A.S. Roma Roma - Places :Italy* Rome, the capital of Italy, is called Roma in Italian and some other languages* Roma Tre University, a university located in Rome, Italy, and founded in 1992... |
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| Chlorodont Nettuno | Lazio | - | |
| Algida Nettuno B.C. | Roma Roma - Places :Italy* Rome, the capital of Italy, is called Roma in Italian and some other languages* Roma Tre University, a university located in Rome, Italy, and founded in 1992... |
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| C.U.S. Milano | Libertas Inter Milano | - | |
| Coca Cola Roma Roma - Places :Italy* Rome, the capital of Italy, is called Roma in Italian and some other languages* Roma Tre University, a university located in Rome, Italy, and founded in 1992... |
Algida Nettuno | - | |
| Seven Up Milano | Roma S.C. Roma S.C. Roma S.C. was an American soccer club based in Paterson, New Jersey that was a member of the American Soccer League.-Year-by-year:... |
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| Europhon Milano | Pirelli Milano | - | |
| Europhon Milano | Simmenthal Nettuno/ ACLI Bologna |
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| Simmenthal Nettuno | Libertas Milano/ Europhon Milano |
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| Simmenthal Nettuno | UGF Fortitudo Bologna | - | |
| 1965 By By or BY may refer to:* Bye or by, a free pass through a round of competition in a tournament* CC-BY, a Creative Commons attribution license* Budget Year , a synonym for Fiscal Year... |
Simmenthal Nettuno | Europhon Milano | - |
| 1966 By By or BY may refer to:* Bye or by, a free pass through a round of competition in a tournament* CC-BY, a Creative Commons attribution license* Budget Year , a synonym for Fiscal Year... |
Europhon Milano | Tanara Parma | |
| Europhon Milano | Nettuno | ||
| Europhon Milano | Nettuno | ||
| Montenegro Bologna | Noalex Milano | - | |
| Europhon Milano | Montenegro Bologna | ||
| Glen Grant Nettuno | Bernazzoli Parma | - | |
| Montenegro Bologna | Bernazzoli Parma | - | |
| Glen Grant Nettuno | Montenegro Bologna | ||
| Montenegro Bologna | Colombo Nettuno | - | |
| Cercosti Rimini | Bernazzoli Parma | - | |
| Germal Parma | Colombo Nettuno | - | |
| Germal Parma | Derbigum Rimini | Mike Romano | |
| Biemme Bologna | Cercosti Rimini | - | |
| Derbigum Rimini | Germal Parma / Colombo Nettuno |
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| Derbigum Rimini | Glen Grant Nettuno | - | |
| Parmalat Parma | Papà Barzetti Rimini | - | |
| Parmalat Parma | Sicma Nettuno | ||
| Papà Barzetti Rimini | Nordmende Bologna | - | |
| BE. CA. Bologna | World Vision Parma | - | |
| World Vision Parma | BE. CA. Bologna | ||
Playoff Era
| Year | Winning Team | Runner Up | Result | MVP |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grohe Grosseto | Trevi Rimini | 4–3 | - | |
| Trevi Rimini | Mamoli Grosseto | 4–1 | - | |
| Ronson Lenoir Rimini | SCAC Nettuno | 4–0 | - | |
| Mamoli Grosseto | Ronson Lenoir Rimini | 4–2 | - | |
| SCAC Nettuno | Ronson Lenoir Rimini | 4–3 | - | |
| Parma Angels | Flower Gloves Verona Verona Verona ; German Bern, Dietrichsbern or Welschbern) is a city in the Veneto, northern Italy, with approx. 265,000 inhabitants and one of the seven chef-lieus of the region. It is the second largest city municipality in the region and the third of North-Eastern Italy. The metropolitan area of Verona... |
3-0 | - | |
| Telemarket Rimini | Eurobuilding Bologna | 3-0 | - | |
| C.F.C. Nettuno | Telemarket Rimini | 3–2 | - | |
| Cariparma Angels | Danesi Nettuno | 4–1 | - | |
| Cariparma Angels | Danesi Nettuno | 4–1 | - | |
| Caffè Danesi Nettuno | Cariparma Angels | 4–2 | - | |
| Cariparma Parma | Danesi Nettuno | 4–3 | - | |
| Danesi Nettuno | Semenzato Rimini | 4–1 | - | |
| Semenzato Rimini | Danesi Nettuno | 4–3 | - | |
| Semenzato Rimini | Danesi Nettuno | 4–0 | Claudio Liverziani | |
| Caffè Danesi Nettuno | Semenzato Rimini | 4–2 | - | |
| Semenzato Rimini | Danesi Nettuno | 4–1 | Orlando Munoz | |
| Italeri Bologna | GB Ricambi Modena Modena Modena is a city and comune on the south side of the Po Valley, in the Province of Modena in the Emilia-Romagna region of Italy.... |
4–1 | Claudio Liverziani | |
| Prink Grosseto Grosseto Grosseto is a city and comune in the central Italian region of Tuscany, the capital of the Province of Grosseto. The city lies 14 km from the Tyrrhenian Sea, in the Maremma, at the centre of an alluvial plain, on the Ombrone river.... |
Italeri Bologna | 4–2 | Jaime Navarro Jaime Navarro Jaime Navarro Cintrón is a former Puerto Rican baseball player. Navarro was a 6 foot, four inch tall right-handed pitcher in the major leagues from to , playing for the Milwaukee Brewers, Chicago Cubs, Chicago White Sox, and Cleveland Indians... |
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| 2005 By By or BY may refer to:* Bye or by, a free pass through a round of competition in a tournament* CC-BY, a Creative Commons attribution license* Budget Year , a synonym for Fiscal Year... |
Italeri Bologna | T&A San Marino | 4–3 | Jesus Matos |
| 2006 By By or BY may refer to:* Bye or by, a free pass through a round of competition in a tournament* CC-BY, a Creative Commons attribution license* Budget Year , a synonym for Fiscal Year... |
Telemarket Rimini | Colonie Maremma Grosseto | 4–1 | Mario Chiarini |
| 2007 By By or BY may refer to:* Bye or by, a free pass through a round of competition in a tournament* CC-BY, a Creative Commons attribution license* Budget Year , a synonym for Fiscal Year... |
Montepaschi Grosseto | Danesi Nettuno | 4–3 | Giuseppe Mazzanti |
| 2008 By By or BY may refer to:* Bye or by, a free pass through a round of competition in a tournament* CC-BY, a Creative Commons attribution license* Budget Year , a synonym for Fiscal Year... |
T&A San Marino | Danesi Nettuno | 4–3 | Giuseppe Mazzanti |
| 2009 By By or BY may refer to:* Bye or by, a free pass through a round of competition in a tournament* CC-BY, a Creative Commons attribution license* Budget Year , a synonym for Fiscal Year... |
UGF Banca Bologna | T&A San Marino | 4–1 | Eddie Garabito |
| 2010 By By or BY may refer to:* Bye or by, a free pass through a round of competition in a tournament* CC-BY, a Creative Commons attribution license* Budget Year , a synonym for Fiscal Year... |
Cariparma Parma | Fortitudo Bologna | 4–2 | Orlando Munoz |
External links
- Federazione Italiana Baseball Softball
- IBAF's Italian Baseball League site
- Italian Baseball Hall of Fame. Baseball-Reference.com. Retrieved 2010-07-26.