MLB is targeting Rome, Milan etc, but in italy there are only 4 or 5 ciies (better towns) in which baseball is like a religion: grosseto (between rome and florence) nettuno (near rome) parma (the bigger of the three near Bolgne). Also no team at all from south italy. the main problem is there are no ballparks in which MLB can organize friendly match or happening. you know, we only got soccer stadium, in which you can't play baseball at all not even a "one night only". i heard about a project of a new park in Rome: Italy his hosting the next baseball world cup, so the italian baseball federation is riding this tiger trying to build this new park. the park in milano is like the worst high school field you can imagine, like the "field of dreams" one, but without the ghost players.... IBL should start in 2011 with heavy investiment of MLB, but by now we don't know even the cities involved. i'm rather pessimistic about this project because in the big cities baseball will NEVER be followed, meanwhile in the small towns where baseball is one of the most followed, there is no real interest to spend money by the big brother MLB.