Lawrence Baldassaro

Lawrence Baldassaro is the author of Beyond DiMaggio: Italian Americans in Baseball and Baseball Italian Style: Great Stories Told by Italian American Major Leaguers from Crosetti to Piazza, and other sports books. His most recent book, Tony Lazzeri: Yankees Legend and Baseball Pioneer, was honored with a 2022 SABR Baseball Research Award. The grandson of Italian immigrants, Baldassaro is a professor emeritus of Italian and former director of the Honors College at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

More than 40 of Baldassaro’s oral history interviews with Italian American ballplayers are now available online in the SABR Oral History Collection. Click here to learn more or to listen to the recordings.

 

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