Company: Riccio Blu
Country: ITALY
Section: DOCUMENTARY – TEAM SPORT
Discipline: Baseball
Year: 2017
Director: Stefano Coco
Editing: Stefano Coco
Photo: Mathia Coco
Soundtrack: Riccardo Ponzo
Voice Off: Stefano Coco
Producer: Riccio Blu
Time: 90 min
Synopsis
Between 1971 and 2005 on a small Sicilian island in the Mediterrean sea, north of Palermo, an extraordinary phenomenon developed. In just over 30 years, a surprising parabola of the locally known “Hit and Run” game took place, which is more widely known as baseball. In the peak of this event, during the 90s, the small island of about a thousand inhabitants hosted two sport teams: Ustica Baseball Club and Ustica Softball Club, both at their respective national levels.