Another sad news at the end of the year for the Milano Baseball, which greets a legend of its history as Franco Hrast. A man who, in the 1970s, had made Milan great and immortal. He was 77 years old.
Who was Franco Hrast
Exterior of the Milan and the Codogno in the seventies, he made his debut in the top flight in 1973. In 2015, on the evening of Tuesday 1 December, Milano Baseball met at the national shooting clubhouse in Cagnola for the delivery of the prize Doriano Donnabella, dedicated to one of the historic founders of the Lombard society and now in its fourth edition. On that occasion Alexander Selmi, president of Milanohad delivered the ”cap” to the special aged wines of 2015, or rather to the “club of 5”: Stefano Anedda (born in 1975), il fifty-year-old Nicola Barbini (’65) ei seventy-year-old Franco Hrast e Ivan Cavazzano (’45).
Franco Hrast and the historic 1976 Codogno Scudetto
Franco Hrast took part in that historic 1976 Codogno Scudetto, on the field municipal of Avenue Resistance. On that occasion, in the final, he was defeated Comello Ronchi of the Legionaries. The protagonists of that 1976 were: Gabriele Grecchi, Pietro Tavani, Giuseppe Carelli, Daniele Carelli, Giancarlo Ceccolini, Guido Braghieri, Geminiano Giambelli, Franco Hrast, Claudio Acquafresca, Maurizio Bescapè, Bob Livraghi, Giancarlo Contini, Franco Campigotto, Enrico Comolla, Graziano Monticelli, Dario Monticelli, Adolfo Trezza, Marco Tansini, Franco Marelli. Manager Carlo Fraschetti; Coach Giangiacomo Sello.
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Milan and Codogno, the two souls of Franco Hrast
Only in April of this year was the 50th challenge between Milan and Codogno, two clubs that marked the life of Franco Hrast. And if it is true that Pierino Allara is the king of the outfielders with 3 homers in this special classification, it is equally true that he finds himself ahead of the other Milanese Franco Hrast, also a double ex, and the Codognese Ceccolini and Filippo Comelli, all at quota 2. For Franco Hrast also a parenthesis as Piacenza Baseball coach: it was 1996, he sat on the bench from the first to the fourth day before being replaced by Emilio Albertazzi and Sergio Beccarini.
Franco Hrast’s last appearance was on 16 September
Il Last September 16, at Campo Kennedy, a maxi stage organized by Ares Milano of the youth teams had seen protagonists, among others, also David Robb (coach of the junior national team) and Franco Hrast himself. Four days where the boys of the cadet and junior categories were entrusted to the specific “care” of past champions such as Angelo Novali, Lorenzo De Regny, Giulio Sueri, Paolo Re, Maurizio Brusati, and Franco Hrast himself.
