Sportebook: 7 books

10 years of passions, deeds and impossible dreams, with Lamar Hunt, Bob Kap, Robert Carey and Bruno Beneck. “With Spaghetti Football"– intended affectionately, not disparagingly – I tell the story of the stadium named for Lombardi, built in the Umbrian countryside after a series of curious...

Joe DiMaggio was the greatest, but he was not the first, and he was not the last. Throughout the hundred years history of USA sports, thousands of Italian Americans went like him after the dream of a better life. Hundreds of them eventually made it, and in dozens even reached the highest points of...

These are the stories of 13 young Italians who, from the early years of the twentieth century up to the eighties, emigrated to America and, with commitment and sacrifice, came to play with the pros in the National Football League. A series of human and sporting adventures lived in another world and...

After the first National Championships of 1980 and 1981 (retold in Spaghetti Football), the legendary field dedicated to Vince Lombardi reopens in 1983 for the first edition of the European Football Championship, and for the foundation of a new football team, thrown out from one day to the next to...

I primi passi del football americano in Italia: una federazione (1972); Bruno Beneck, Lamar Hunt, Bob Kap e la Intercontinental Football League (1972); The Roman Gladiators (1973): Robert Carey e la NFL Properties Inc. (1977); la Lega Italiana Football americano (1979); lo Stadio Vince Lombardi e...

Dopo i primi due campionati nazionali del 1980 e 1981 (raccontati in Spaghetti Football), il mitico campo dedicato a Vince Lombardi riaprì i battenti nel 1983 per la prima edizione del Campionato Europeo di Football Americano e per i primi allenamenti e la repentina diaspora di una nuova squadra,...

Nel corso di un secolo dello sport a stelle e strisce migliaia di italoamericani rincorsero il sogno di una vita migliore tirando di boxe, battendo una palla, volando su una pista o scontrandosi sulle linee. A centinaia ce la fecero e a decine raggiunsero le vette più alte delle varie discipline....