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A multiple baseball champion at the Children’s Hospital

Cap on his head and baseball bat in hand, the winner of ten Scudetti and 14 Champions Cups Salvatore “Sal” Varriale showed up at the Children’s Hospital to give the ball that changed his life to the young people waiting in the hall. Week hospital. “The important thing is to have dreams”, repeated the former baseball player and coach, recounting his successes that led him to be awarded the title of Knight of the Republic for sporting merits by President Sergio Mattarella.

Accompanying him was the director of the Maternal and Child Department Gian Luigi de ‘Angelis who had great words of praise for “Sal”, the nursing coordinator of the Week Hospital Giuseppina Nicosia and the president of the Snupi association Giulio Orsini who promoted the initiative considering team sport is in many ways similar to team work in a hospital. And he explains the presence of Sal Varriale as follows: “A champion with a world-wide experience and who has participated in 4 Olympics, he is a symbol of how important the choral, transversal and at the same time individual commitment is, both in this sport and in life; even more so in the life that all children, especially those of the Pietro Barilla Hospital, have to face gaining one base after another “.

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