British sailors teached us football (soccer) and we learned quite well. Long before this, American sailors tried to teach us baseball, with not so good results. In 1884, on January 23 and the following days, the crews of the USS Lancaster and USS Quinnebaug met in Livorno, on the “Campo d'Osservazione” (Observation Field), for an unknown number of innings.
A plaque was placed in 2001 by the Italian Baseball Federation on a wall of the “Gymnasium” to commemorate the first ever game of baseball played in Italy and, probably, in continental Europe. The “Campo d'Osservazione” is now a football (soccer) field.Related post: Ménio
Awards
Jacob of Ocala Daily Photo and The Villages Daily Photo gave us the “Honest Scrap” award.
I appreciate his intention and his serious interest for LDP, but I think that this, as many other “awards”, would be better to stop.
If I give 8 new awards to fellow bloggers and everyone complies with the rules, in a week we'll have more than 16 million awards and counting. So what is the purpose of this?
The better way to give an award to a friend blogger is to follow his or her blog, link it on your page, quote it in your posts and just keep in touch.
I hope my friend Jacob will understand, I appreciate his work, his comments and his advice. I am very happy to have just discovered his Villages blog and consider this a very good prize.
