ITALY - Italian Baseball League club Cariparma has inked American pitcher Robert Cramer for the 2009 season. Cramer, 29, is a California native who has played in both the Tampa Bay Rays and Oakland A's minor league systems. The left-hander pitched for the Golden Baseball League's Orange County Flyers in ...

ITALY - Three former members of the Italian Junior National Team which captured the 2007 European Baseball Championship have been signed by a trio of Italian League clubs. The highly-touted prospects played in the second division this past year ...

ITALY - 2008 Italian League runner-up Danesi Nettuno continued to fortify their 2009 roster with the addition of Marlins Puerto Cruz catcher Dewis Navarro. Nettuno has already netted Fortitudo Bologna catcher Manuel Gasparri and Cuban hurler Remigio Leal (FC ...

ITALY - The reigning Italian League Champion T&A San Marino has signed a pair of sluggers for 2009 from the Netherlands Antilles National Team. Outfielder Johannes Gregorius Jr. and pitcher/outfielder Ardley Jansen played key roles in helping the Dutch Antilles squad ...

ITALY - Cariparma Parma of the Italian Baseball League has come to terms with Dutch League veteran Johnny Balentina for the 2009 season. The 37-year-old native of Curacao, who signed a free agent contract with the Konica Minolta Pioniers earlier this ...

ITALY - Marco Mazzieri will manage Team Italy also during the March 2009 World Baseball Classic.  The former Team Italy center fielder was given the managing job before the 2007 IBAF World Cup. “We have a long term program with Mazzieri,” ...

ITALY - Former Baltimore Orioles infielder Ivanon Coffie has been signed by Telemarket Rimini of the Italian Baseball League (IBL). The Curacao native played last season in the Chinese Professional Baseball League, the Dutch Major League, and the Atlantic League in ...