Matt Tallarini is a lifelong baseball enthusiast. Matt played baseball from T ball all the way thru college pitching at Division 3 Mitchell College in New London, CT. After college Matt pitched semi pro baseball with the Pelham Mets in Pelham, New York for four years. Matt pitched in the 2018 Semi Pro World Series with the Mets. Matt’s coach and manager while on the Mets was Joe Solimine. Solimine played professional baseball for nearly a decade with stints on the minor league affiliates of the Pittsburgh Pirates and Minnesota Twins before retiring after a season with the Montreal Expos organization. He was teammates with Tony La Russa, a three-time World Series winner as a manager, and Greg Nettles, a two-time World Series champion as the third baseman for the New York Yankees. Solimine was a major influence in Matt’s baseball efforts. Matt is a lifelong Yankee fan.
World Baseball Network and Worldbaseball.com became Matt’s way to promote and inform the baseball world about all the great international baseball activity in the America’s, the Caribbean, Europe, and the Far East. World Baseball Network is designed to be not only informative on the international level but to also be a source of fan memorabilia and team mementos from all over the world.