Benito Garozzo

He won 13 world championship titles with the Italian Blue Team, starting in 1961 when he was added as a last minute substitute for the Bermuda Bowl,[2] playing in regular partnerships with Pietro Forquet to 1972 and then with Giorgio Belladonna.

[1] At age six his brother taught him tresette, a partnership trick-taking game with dummy play.

[1] During World War II, he lived at a sister's home in Naples, where family and friends played partnership games including tresette.

He is divorced with a son and daughter; his life partner for more than 30 years was Lea Dupont[2] of Rockland, Delaware[5] (also Italy and Florida).

With four other players sometimes including Forquet, they won for Italy three more world team championships in succession, the 1973 to 1975 Bermuda Bowls.