San Marino Baseball Club is a professional baseball team based in the city of San Marino, in the Republic of San Marino. The current commencial name is T & A San Marino because the main sponsor of the club is currently Tecnologie e Ambiente S.A.. San Marino plays in the Serie A1, the top level of professional baseball in Italy. It has frequently participated in the European Cup (for the first time in 1993) and won the European championship in 2006. It won the 2008 and the 2011 Italian League championship. San Marino played in 2008 for the first time in the Final Four. San Marino finished in second place and won it in 2011.
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