Juan Carlos Infante (born October 8, 1981) is a Venezeulan-Italian professional baseball

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, for the

Fortitudo Baseball Bologna Fortitudo Baseball 1953, commonly referred to as Fortitudo Bologna, also known as UnipolSai Bologna for sponsorship reasons, is a baseball club based in Bologna that competes in Serie A1 (baseball), Serie A1, Italy's professional baseball league. ...

in the Italian Baseball League.

Playing career

Infante played in the Gulf Coast League for the Montreal Expos in 1999 and 2000 then in the

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for the Fort Worth Cats in 2001, the Northeast League for the New Jersey Jackals in 2004, the

Canadian-American Association The Canadian American Association of Professional Baseball, commonly known as the Can-Am League, was a professional, independent baseball league with teams in the Northeast United States and Eastern Canada, founded in 2005 as a reorganization of ...

for the Ottawa Rapides in 2008 and the Golden Baseball League for the Edmonton Cracker-Cats in 2008 before going to Italy. He also played for the Italy national baseball team in the

2013 World Baseball Classic The 2013 World Baseball Classic (WBC) was an international professional baseball competition, held from March 2 to March 19, 2013. This was the third iteration of the WBC, following the two previous tournaments, held in 2006 and 2009. Unlike ...

and with the

Orel Anzio The Orel Anzio was a Minor League Baseball club that played in the Italian Baseball League in its 2006 season. The team was based in Anzio, a city located on the coast of the Lazio region of Italy, about 33 miles south of Rome , establis ...

of the Italian League.2006 Orel Anzio roster a
Baseball.it website
(Italian). Retrieved on December 30, 2017.

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Italian career statistics
1981 births 2013 World Baseball Classic players 2015 WBSC Premier12 players Baseball pitchers Edmonton Cracker-Cats players Fort Worth Cats players Gulf Coast Expos players Italian baseball players Italian people of Venezuelan descent Living people Naturalised citizens of Italy New Jersey Jackals players Orel Anzio players Ottawa Rapidz players Baseball players from Caracas Venezuelan expatriate baseball players in Canada Venezuelan expatriate baseball players in the United States
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