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Today’s Geo Quiz seeks an Italian town famous for baseball. The answer is Nettuno, a coastal city about 40 miles south of Rome, where local residents picked up the sport from American GIs during World War Two. Right now? Nettuno is hosting the annual Baseball World Cup. Reporter Nancy Greenleese takes us there.

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