Jairo Ramos Gizzi (born 21 July 1971) is a

Venezuela Venezuela (; ), officially the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela ( es, link=no, República Bolivariana de Venezuela), is a country on the northern coast of South America, consisting of a continental landmass and many islands and islets in th ...

-born Italian

baseball Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each, taking turns batting and fielding. The game occurs over the course of several plays, with each play generally beginning when a player on the fielding tea ...

first baseman A first baseman, abbreviated 1B, is the player on a baseball or softball team who fields the area nearest first base, the first of four bases a baserunner must touch in succession to score a run. The first baseman is responsible for the majori ...

. Ramos bats and throws left-handed. ''PuraPelota.com.'' Retrieved September 22, 2015. He 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 primarily ...

club of the Italian Baseball League. As a member of the Italy national baseball team, Ramos competed in the

2004 Summer Olympics The 2004 Summer Olympics ( el, Θερινοί Ολυμπιακοί Αγώνες 2004, ), officially the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad ( el, Αγώνες της 28ης Ολυμπιάδας, ) and also known as Athens 2004 ( el, Αθήνα 2004), ...

and won the

2010 European Baseball Championship The 2010 European Baseball Championship was an international baseball competition held in Germany from July 23 to August 1, 2010. The tournament was originally set to be held in 2009 with Russia as host. In March 2008, the Confederation of Europe ...

. Ramos, who debuted in the Italian League with Grosseto BBC in 1998, connected his 100th

home run In baseball, a home run (abbreviated HR) is scored when the ball is hit in such a way that the batter is able to circle the bases and reach home plate safely in one play without any errors being committed by the defensive team. A home run i ...

in the circuit during the 2013 season, as well as his 1,000th hit in 2014. In between, Ramos played winter ball for the Leones del Caracas, Cardenales de Lara, Tiburones de La Guaira and

Pastora de los Llanos The Pastora de los Llanos were a baseball club which played in the Venezuelan Professional Baseball League between the 1997–98 and 2006-07 seasons. They were based in the cities of Acarigua and Araure in Portuguesa, and played its home games a ...

clubs of the Venezuelan Professional Baseball League in a span of 19 seasons from 1989–2007. He also represented Venezuela in the

2006 Caribbean Series The forty-eighth edition of the Caribbean Series (''Serie del Caribe'') baseball tournament was played in 2006 in the neighboring cities of Maracay and Valencia in Venezuela, making it the first one to be played in two cities. It was held from Feb ...

.El anfitrión en busca de la gloria
(Spanish). ''ESPN.com.'' Retrieved September 22, 2015.

References

1971 births 2016 European Baseball Championship players Living people Baseball first basemen Baseball players at the 2004 Summer Olympics Cardenales de Lara players Grosseto Baseball Club players Leones del Caracas players Olympic baseball players for Italy Pastora de los Llanos players People from La Guaira Sportspeople from Vargas (state) T & A San Marino players Expatriate baseball players in San Marino Tiburones de La Guaira players Venezuelan baseball players Venezuelan expatriate baseball players in Italy {{Italy-baseball-bio-stub