Mario Chiarini (born 7 January 1981) is an Italian professional

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player who competed in the

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. He's the current captain of the Italian team.

Career

Club

Mario Chiarini was 16 years old in his senior debut, in 1997, for his hometown team

Rimini Baseball The Rimini Baseball Club, nicknamed the Pirates (), was a team that played in Serie A1 Italian Baseball League. The team was based in the city of Rimini and played its home games at the Stadio dei Pirati since 1973. Rimini has won 13 national ch ...

Minor league

Chiarini played for the

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in 2000.

Back to club

After his stint with Mariners, Chiarini continued his career in Rimini from 2001 to 2015. With Rimini he won 3 Italian championships, and 2 national cups. Chiarini currently plays for the

T&A San Marino San Marino Baseball Club is a professional domestic baseball club based in San Marino. As of August 2021, they compete in Serie A1, the top tier of Italian baseball. Their current commercial name is T & A San Marino, because the team is primaril ...

International

Mario Chiarini has played for

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since 2002. He made the roster for the

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for the first time in

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. He also represented his country in the 2013 edition. At the

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, Chiarini made a spectacular diving catch to rob

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of an RBI. In the process of doing so, Chiarini suffered an embarrassing wardrobe malfunction: Mario's belt split in half. As a member of national team, he won two

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s, in

2010 The year saw a multitude of natural and environmental disasters such as the 2010 Haiti earthquake, the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, and the 2010 Chile earthquake. The 2009 swine flu pandemic, swine flu pandemic which began the previous year ...

and in

2012 2012 was designated as: *International Year of Cooperatives *International Year of Sustainable Energy for All Events January *January 4 – The Cicada 3301 internet hunt begins. * January 12 – Peaceful protests begin in the R ...

. He missed the

2016 2016 was designated as: * International Year of Pulses by the sixty-eighth session of the United Nations General Assembly. * International Year of Global Understanding (IYGU) by the International Council for Science (ICSU), the Internationa ...

edition because of an injury, to which manager Mazzieri said to be "strange to coach the team without him for the first time".

External links

References

1981 births 2003 European Baseball Championship players 2003 Baseball World Cup players 2005 European Baseball Championship players 2007 European Baseball Championship players 2009 World Baseball Classic players 2010 European Baseball Championship players 2013 World Baseball Classic players 2014 European Baseball Championship players 2015 WBSC Premier12 players 2017 World Baseball Classic players Arizona League Mariners players Baseball players at the 2004 Summer Olympics Baseball players from Emilia-Romagna Italian expatriate baseball players in the United States Living people Olympic baseball players for Italy Rimini Baseball Club players T & A San Marino players Expatriate baseball players in San Marino {{Italy-baseball-bio-stub