SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — They are finally back together, playing baseball for the first time since qualifying for the Olympics nearly two years ago, but that elation and joy has turned to fear and anxiety.

When the Team Israel baseball team takes the field during the upcoming Summer Olympics in Tokyo, it will include players from South Florida. The Israel national baseball team begins Olympic play on ...

Leichman, who has worn the number of his kibbutz laundry tag and highlighted his Israeli identity, has been appointed by the ...

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For the first time, players currently on Major League Baseball rosters are joining Team Israel in next year’s World Baseball Classic — and there could be a lot of them. As many as 12 current Major ...

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TOKYO — Shlomo Lipetz was on the first baseball team to represent Israel in an international event at Little League World Series preliminaries in Germany in 1989. He was 10. The Israelis were ...

Baseball players are often averse to voicing political stances or taking sides in conflicts that don’t take place on a diamond. Fans, after all, come in all stripes. Backing Israel in its bloody ...

In 2017, a ragtag bunch of Jewish minor leaguers, retired pros and semi-pros competing as Team Israel made a miracle run at the World Baseball Classic, winning its first six games and ultimately ...

Israel recorded nine hits but lost 5-1 to Venezuela in its final World Baseball Classic game. On Wednesday, Israel’s bats came alive in the final game, with nine hits, including three for Noah ...

Baseball is extremely popular in the United States, and has strong pockets of popularity throughout the world in places such as Latin America, Japan and South Korea. The World Baseball Classic, a ...

YOKOHAMA, Japan, July 29 (Reuters) - Israel, making its Olympic baseball debut, nearly stunned South Korea for the second straight time in international competition before the defending champions eked ...