The Italian Baseball League club CARIPARMA is going to retire the jersey number of Salvatore Varriale tonight before the start of their game against DANESI NETTUNO (7pm CET). Varriale wore the 27 during his career as a player, manager and coach with the Parma based club. He batted .321 (OBP .408/SLG .537) with 72 homeruns, 296 runs scored and 355 RBI in 370 games between 1972 and 1984. In 1985 and 1986 he managed the team and led them to the national championship (1985) and the European Champions Cup (1986). Afterwards the now 60-year-old worked as a coach for the club from 1988 till last year. During his time with the club they won nine national titles and 13 European Cups. Varriale also played 59 games for the Italian National Team.
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